| NAME |
DESCRIPTION |
URL |
Global Population
Dynamics Database
|
Repository
for population time
series
|
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/cpb/research/
patternsandprocesses/gpdd
|
Fishbase
|
Very
large database about fish
(online database not easily queried for batch data download but also
available as an MS ACCESS database)
|
http://fishbase.org/search.php
|
Atlas of United
States Trees
|
Maps
of tree distribution in the US
|
http://esp.cr.usgs.gov/data/atlas/little/
|
The Paleobiology Database
|
Web
based portal for paleontological data
|
http://paleodb.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl
|
VegBank
|
Data
from North American vegetation plots
|
http://www.vegbank.org/vegbank/index.jsp
|
NCEAS Data Repository
|
Repository
of metadata for ecological databases
|
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/style/
skins/nceas/index.html
|
World Health Organization
Disease Statistics
|
Statistics
for diseases monitored by the world health organization
|
www.who.int/research/en/ |
Global Health Atlas
|
GIS
data for infectious and other diseases
|
http://www.who.int/globalatlas/
|
NCEAS scientific computing
data resources
|
Portal
for climate, digital mapping, and land use data
|
www.nceas.ucsb.edu/scicomp/DataLinks.html
|
United States Long Term
Ecological Research Network
|
LTER
data catalog contains entries for over 4000 ecological datasets from 26
LTER Network research sites.
|
http://www.lternet.edu/
|
United States Environmental
Protection Agency: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Project
(EMAP)
|
Research
program to develop the tools necessary to monitor and assess the status
and trends of national ecological resources.
|
http://www.epa.gov/emap/
|
Environment Canada
|
A
collection of Canada-wide datasets on wildlife, pollution, sustainable
development, water, and weather and meteorology
|
http://www.ec.gc.ca/data_e.html
|
U.S. State Natural Heritage
Programs
|
A
collection of state-wide comprehensive and dynamic databases that track
the location and status of rare species and natural communities
|
http://www.natureserve.org/
|
Biota of North America
Project (BONAP)
|
Data
for traits and distributionof ~28,000 plant types in North America.
Costs $US495
|
http://www.bonap.org/
|
National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Paleoclimatology database
|
Time
series data from ice cores, coral, pollen, tree-rings and other
|
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/
|
Integrated Taxonomic
Information System (ITIS)
|
Taxonomic
information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for North America
and the world.
|
http://www.itis.usda.gov/
|
Audubon Christmas Bird Count
database
|
Bird
counts for all bird species in the US, organized by county. Depending
on location data goes back >100 years.
|
http://www.audubon.org/bird/cbc/hr/index.html
|
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change Data Distribution Center (IPCC-DDC)
|
Worldwide
climate data for the last 100 years in 10 and 30 years averages and
outputs of global circulation models
|
http://ipcc-ddc.cru.uea.ac.uk/ddc_envdata.html
|
NatureServe
|
Distribution,
trait, and threatened status for animals and plants in the US (some
global data)
|
http://www.natureserve.org/getData/index.jsp
|
United States Department of
Agriculture Forest Service Gypsy Moth Data
|
Data
for the spread of gypsy moth in the US over the last century.
|
http://www.gmsts.org/operations/
|
United States Geological
Survey zebra mussel spread
|
Known
occurences of zebra mussel in the US since 1988
|
http://nas.er.usgs.gov/taxgroup/mollusks/
zebramussel/
|
Missouri Botanical Garden:
The Alwyn
H. Gentry Forest Transect Data set
|
Diversity/abundance
database for hundreds of forest plots from around the world
|
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/
gentry/transect.shtml
|
Missouri Botanical garden:
Gateway to Databases
|
Gateway
to several taxonomic databases at MBG
|
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/Research/
alldb.shtml
|
SALVIAS: Synthesis and
Analysis of Local Vegetation Inventories Across Scales
|
Gateway
to biodiversity datasets on plant diversity
|
http://www.salvias.net/pages/
database_info.php
|
USGS Breeding bird survey
|
Breeding
bird data roadside surveys for >30 years throughout US
|
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/
|
Florida Natural Areas
Inventories: Florida Invasive Plants Geodatabase
|
Geospatial
data on invasive plant occurences in Florida
|
http://www.fnai.org/invasivespecies.cfm
|
CDC MMWR:
Morbidity and mortality weekly report
|
Database
on human cases of variety of infectious diseases
|
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/distrnds.html
|
North America Amphibian
Monitoring
Program
|
Dataset
of amphibian (frog and toad) call surveys from across the US
|
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/naamp/data/
public/index.cfm
|
Ecological archives
|
Ecological
society of America family of journals. Free for personal or educational
use but requires permission for other uses.
|
http://esapubs.org/archive/archive_D.htm
|
Geoscience
Australia
|
GIS
data for Australia
|
http://www.ga.gov.au/products/
|
Australian Bird
Atlas
|
Bird
data (locations for species, covering all of Australia) are available,
but requires small payment. Contact details on site.
|
http://www.birdata.com.au/
|
IUCN
|
A
worldwide species information resource comprising interlinked databases
of species-related information managed by SSC's network of specialist
groups
|
http://www.iucn.org/thermes/ssc/
our_work/sis.htm
|
electronic Plant information
centre (ePIC)
|
ePIC
is a project bringing together the Kew Gardens digitized information on
plants
|
http://www.kew.org/epic/datasources/htm
|
Global biodiversity
information facility
|
Intended
to facilitate digitisation and global dissemination of primary
biodiversity data
|
http://www.gbif.org/
|
Global Land
cover
facility
|
Free
to anyone via FTP. Online datasets may be accessed electronically
through the Earth Science Data Interface (ESDI).
|
http://glcf.umiacs.umd.edu/data/
|
The Australian Natural
Resources Data Library
|
Data
portal with metadata searches and links to biological and biophysical
data
|
http://adl.brs.gov.au/anrdl/php/
|
USDA Plant Links
|
Links
to many publicly available botanical datasets across the world (most
taxonomic material)
|
http://plants.nrcs.usda.gov/cgi_bin/
link_categories.cgi?category=linknames
|
USDA Soil Data
Mart
|
Downloads
of various soils data for US
|
http://soildatamart.nrcs.usda.gov/
|
USDA Plants Database
|
Liverworts,
hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories
|
http://plants.usda.gov/
|
The National Biological
Information Infrastructure
|
A
broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and
information on US's biological resources.
|
http://www.nbii.gov
|
National Climatic Data Center
|
Active
archive of weather data
|
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
|
National Geophysical Data
Center
|
Source
of geophysical data from the sun to the earth and earth's sea floor and
solid earth environment, including earth observations from space
|
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/
|
National Oceanographic
Data
Center
|
Data
center archives & public access to global oceanographic and
coastal data, products, and information.
|
http://www.nodc.noaa.gov/
|
National Biodiversity Network
|
Distribution
maps and wildlife data for the United Kingdom
|
http://www.searchnbn.net/index_homepage/
index.jsp
|
European Environment Agency
|
Publicly
available datasets for Europe
|
http://themes.eea.europa.eu/
Environmental_issues/biodiversity/data
|
Australian Virtual Herbarium
|
Data
associated with scientific plant specimens in Australian herbaria,
comprising six million specimen records, images, descriptive text and
identification tools
|
http://www.chah.gov.au/avh/avh.html
|
NCAR/ESSL Climate and global
Dynamics data sets
|
Climate
model data archives, including imagery and Community Climate system
Model (CCSM) output, store in standard data formats
|
http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/research/
data.html
|
NASA-GODDARD Space Flight
center global change
master directory
|
Portal
for diverse earth science data and services
|
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov
|
NOAA National climatic data
center home page
|
Portal
for NOAA climate change data including satellite imagery
|
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html
|
USGS Earth resources
observation and science (EROS)
|
Portal
for land information, including satellite data, offered by USGS
|
http://edc.usgs.gov
|
National Resources Canada
Earth Sciences Sector
|
Portal
for canadian Earth science information sources
|
http://ess.nrcan.gc.ca/index_e.php
|
Macquarie University
Graduate School of the Environment Web site GIS and remote sensing links
|
Comprehensive
portal to worldwide list of remote senseing/GIS resources
|
http://www.gse.mq.edu.au/post_grad/
rcooper/GISRSlinls/gislinks.htm
|
Goddard Space Flight Center
EOSDIS
|
A
source for biogeochemical and ecological data collected on the ground,
from aircraft, by satellite, or have been generated by computer models.
Extent of data ranges from site-specific to global, from days to years.
|
http://spsosun.gsfc.nasa.gov/
eosinfo/EOSDIS_Site/index.html
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