DATA

This is a curated selection of external available data for ecology

Global Soil Dataset for Earth System Model

Harmonized World Soil Database

The Harmonized World Soil Database is a 30 arc-second raster database with over 15 000 different soil mapping units that combines existing regional and national updates of soil information worldwide (SOTER, ESD, Soil Map of China, WISE) with the information contained within the 1:5 000 000 scale FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World (FAO, 1971-1981).

HiHydroSoil

Global Maps of Soil Hydraulic Properties at 250m Resolution

HydroATLAS

HydroATLAS offers a global compendium of hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at 15 arc-second resolution.

HydroBASINS

HydroBASINS is a series of polygon layers that depict watershed boundaries and sub-basin delineations at a global scale.

HydroLAKES

HydroLAKES is a database aiming to provide the shoreline polygons of all global lakes with a surface area of at least 10 ha.

HydroRIVERS

HydroRIVERS is a database aiming to provide the vectorized line network of all global rivers that have a catchment area of at least 10 km2 or an average river flow of 0.1 cubic meters per second, or both.

International Co-operative Programme on Assessment and Monitoring of Air Pollution Effects on Forests (ICP Forests)

ICP Forests monitors forest condition at two monitoring intensity levels

International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN)

The International Soil Moisture Network is an international cooperation to establish and maintain a global in-situ soil moisture database. This database is an essential means for validating and improving global satellite products, and land surface, climate, and hydrological models.

International Tree Ring Databank

The World Data Service for Paleoclimatology manages the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), the world’s largest public archive of tree ring data.

Inventari Forestal Nacional d’Andorra

L’estiu del 2022 es va dur a terme el treball de camp per conèixer les principals variables silvo-dasomètriques que permeten la caracterització dels diferents tipus de boscos del Principat d’Andorra.

LOng Term Vegetation Sampling (LOTVS)

The LOTVS (LOng-Term Vegetation Sampling) database is a collection of vegetation data using permanent plots worldwide. At present the database includes vegetation data from 80 study areas covering grasslands, shrublands and forest understory around the globe

LSTRAD

High-resolution (1 km) all-sky net radiation over Europe enabled by the merging of land surface temperature retrievals from geostationary and polar-orbiting satellites

North American Breeding Bird Survey

The BBS is a cooperative effort between the U.S. Geological Survey’s Patuxent Wildlife Research Center and Environment Canada’s Canadian Wildlife Service to monitor the status and trends of North American bird populations. Following a rigorous protocol, BBS data are collected by thousands of dedicated participants along thousands of randomly established roadside routes throughout the continent.

PaleoClim

High-resolution paleoclimate data for use in biological modeling and GIS

PhenoCam: An ecosystem phenology camera network

The PhenoCam Network is a cooperative continental-scale phenological observatory that uses imagery from networked digital cameras to track vegetation phenology in a diverse range of ecosystems across North America and around the World.

PREPRINT

A global map of root biomass across the world’s forests

RCP database

The RCP database aims at documenting the emissions, concentrations, and land-cover change projections of the so-called “Representative Concentration Pathways” (RCPs).

RecruitNet: A global database of plant recruitmentnetworks

A data set containing 143 plant recruitment networks in 23 countries across five conti-nents, including temperate and tropical ecosystems. The data set includes >850,000recruiting individuals involved in 118,411 paired interactions among 3318 vas-cular plant species across the globe

Root systems of individual plants

Contains 5,647 observations, to our knowledge the largest database describing the maximum rooting depth, lateral spread, and shoot size of terrestrial plants in the world

Santander Spain02_v5

A series of high-resolution daily precipitation and (maximum and minimum) temperature gridded datasets developed for peninsular Spain and the Balearic islands.

Santander Spain02_v5

A series of high-resolution monthly precipitation and (maximum and minimum) temperature gridded datasets developed for peninsular Spain and the Balearic islands.

SMC network

Catalonian automatic meteorological stations network

Soil Respiration Database (SRDB)

The Soil Respiration Database (SRDB) is a near-universal compendium of published soil respiration (Rs) data.

SoilGrids

Soilgrids is a system for digital soil mapping based on a global compilation of soil profile data (WoSIS) and environmental layers. Read about the SoilGrids and WoSIS projects on isric.org

sPlot

sPlot is the largest repository for plant community data in the world, containing more than 1 million records with full lists of plant species co-occurring in small areas (plots)

sPlotOpen

Vegetation plot database with abundance of naturally co-occurring vascular plant species within delimited areas

The China plant trait database version 2

China Plant Trait Database contains information on morphometric, physical, chemical, photosynthetic and hydraulic traits from 1529 unique species in 140 sites spanning a diversity of vegetation types

TreeNet

Point dendrometers and air and soil microclimate using an automated system

TRY

Global database initiative, which has united a wide range of the plant trait research community worldwide