Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access Data?
Various data sets can be found here: http://info1.ma.slu.se/veg/www_veg.acgi$Project?ID=Intro --| http://sci.martinkoechy.de | Dr. Martin Köchy (Koechy) Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut -Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei- Institut für Agrarrelevante Klimaforschung Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute -Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries- Institute of Agricultural Climate Research vTI-AK * Bundesallee 50 * 38116 Braunschweig * GERMANY Telefon: +49-531-596-2602 * Telefax: +49-531-596-2699 http://www.vti.bund.de/de/institute/ak/ - (bis September) --- AG Vegetationsökologie Naturschutz|RG Veg. Ecology Nature Conserv. Universität Potsdam| University of Potsdam Am Neuen Palais 10 * 14469 Potsdam * GERMANY Telefon: +49-331-977 1974|Fax: +49-331-977 1930 www.bio.uni-potsdam.de/professuren/vegetationsoekologie-naturschutz
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access Data?
Katie, I can think of a couple options for you for birds. One standard one is the North American Breeding Bird Survey data set, where data can be downloaded from here: http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/bbs/RawData/Choose-Method.cfm These data come from several thousand annual 50-point transects run throughout the U.S. and southern Canada. The data go back to 1966, from which they are available as counts of birds aggregated across all 50 stops. Starting in the late 1990s the data become available separately for each of the 50 stops. You will need to do some data manipulation to produce a data set workable for students, because the data come as separate tables describing the route, the conditions on the individual year, and finally the counts of birds for any and all species seen and heard. The second source of bird data that you should look at are from the Avian Knowledge Network (http://www.avianknowledge.net/content/download/prepackaged-data-options) that is warehousing data from several monitoring projects. The URL given above is the web page for downloading specific data sets, but you'll need to look at the documentation (http://www.avianknowledge.net/content/datasets) first to see what data sets are available from which regions, and click on any of the project names to get the associated meta-data (descriptions of contents of each column of data). The Avian Knowledge Network data come as flat-file tables that hopefully would require less pre-processing to make them usable for student projects. In either case, would likely need to trim down the data sets to make them manageable as the entire data sets will likely not fit within an Excel spreadsheet, if you were intending to have the students use spreadsheet manipulations for their projects' analyses. I hope these suggestions help. Wesley
Re: [ECOLOG-L] Open Access Data?
Interesting stuff here maybe - analysis of the breeding status lists might be interesting to test latitudinal/elevational models of biodiversity, for example http://www.birdpop.org/nbii/NBIIHome.asp I expect that you will summarize suggested resources through Ecolog and will be glad for you to include this link. butterfliesandmoths.org - maps might be interesting At 06:03 PM 8/16/2009, you wrote: Hello, I'm looking for any datasets that are available online to use in a biodiversity class this fall. The best I have found so far are from ESA's TIEE program. I'm interested in others that students would be able to use in order to address biodiversity-related questions that they develop in class. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Please just reply to me rather than the whole group. Thanks! Katie Alt Griffith Visiting Scholar, Wellesley College _ M. Philip Nott, Ph.D. Research Ecologist The Institute for Bird Populations PO Box 1346 11435 State Route 1, Suite 23 Point Reyes Station CA 94956-1346 Voice: (415) 663-2050 Fax: (415) 663-9482 email: pn...@birdpop.org Visit our website www.birdpop.org ___ Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
[ECOLOG-L] Open Access Data?
Hello, I'm looking for any datasets that are available online to use in a biodiversity class this fall. The best I have found so far are from ESA's TIEE program. I'm interested in others that students would be able to use in order to address biodiversity-related questions that they develop in class. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Please just reply to me rather than the whole group. Thanks! Katie Alt Griffith Visiting Scholar, Wellesley College
