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. 2018 Jul;27(7):760-786.
doi: 10.1111/geb.12729. Epub 2018 Jul 24.

BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Maria Dornelas  1 Laura H Antão  1   2 Faye Moyes  1 Amanda E Bates  3   4 Anne E Magurran  1 Dušan Adam  5 Asem A Akhmetzhanova  6 Ward Appeltans  7 José Manuel Arcos  8 Haley Arnold  1 Narayanan Ayyappan  9 Gal Badihi  1 Andrew H Baird  10 Miguel Barbosa  1   2 Tiago Egydio Barreto  11 Claus Bässler  12 Alecia Bellgrove  13 Jonathan Belmaker  14 Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi  15 Brian J Bett  3 Anne D Bjorkman  16 Magdalena Błażewicz  17 Shane A Blowes  14   18 Christopher P Bloch  19 Timothy C Bonebrake  20 Susan Boyd  1 Matt Bradford  21 Andrew J Brooks  22 James H Brown  23 Helge Bruelheide  18   24 Phaedra Budy  25 Fernando Carvalho  26 Edward Castañeda-Moya  27 Chaolun Allen Chen  28 John F Chamblee  29 Tory J Chase  10   30 Laura Siegwart Collier  31 Sharon K Collinge  32 Richard Condit  33 Elisabeth J Cooper  34 J Hans C Cornelissen  35 Unai Cotano  36 Shannan Kyle Crow  37 Gabriella Damasceno  38 Claire H Davies  39 Robert A Davis  40 Frank P Day  41 Steven Degraer  42   43 Tim S Doherty  40   44 Timothy E Dunn  45 Giselda Durigan  46 J Emmett Duffy  47 Dor Edelist  48 Graham J Edgar  49 Robin Elahi  50 Sarah C Elmendorf  32 Anders Enemar  51 S K Morgan Ernest  52 Rubén Escribano  53 Marc Estiarte  54   55 Brian S Evans  56 Tung-Yung Fan  57 Fabiano Turini Farah  58 Luiz Loureiro Fernandes  59 Fábio Z Farneda  60   61   62 Alessandra Fidelis  38 Robert Fitt  63 Anna Maria Fosaa  64 Geraldo Antonio Daher Correa Franco  65 Grace E Frank  30 William R Fraser  66 Hernando García  67 Roberto Cazzolla Gatti  68 Or Givan  14 Elizabeth Gorgone-Barbosa  38 William A Gould  69 Corinna Gries  70 Gary D Grossman  71 Julio R Gutierréz  72   73   74 Stephen Hale  75 Mark E Harmon  76 John Harte  77 Gary Haskins  78 Donald L Henshaw  79 Luise Hermanutz  31 Pamela Hidalgo  53 Pedro Higuchi  80 Andrew Hoey  10 Gert Van Hoey  81 Annika Hofgaard  82 Kristen Holeck  83 Robert D Hollister  84 Richard Holmes  85 Mia Hoogenboom  10   30 Chih-Hao Hsieh  86 Stephen P Hubbell  87 Falk 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Daniel J Metcalfe  21 Christoph F J Meyer  60   61   115 Anders Michelsen  116 Nataliya Milchakova  117 Tom Moens  43 Even Moland  91   98 Jon Moore  96   118 Carolina Mathias Moreira  119 Jörg Müller  12   120 Grace Murphy  121 Isla H Myers-Smith  122 Randall W Myster  123 Andrew Naumov  124 Francis Neat  125 James A Nelson  126 Michael Paul Nelson  76 Stephen F Newton  127 Natalia Norden  67 Jeffrey C Oliver  128 Esben M Olsen  91   98 Vladimir G Onipchenko  6 Krzysztof Pabis  17 Robert J Pabst  76 Alain Paquette  129 Sinta Pardede  94 David M Paterson  1   96 Raphaël Pélissier  130 Josep Peñuelas  54   55 Alejandro Pérez-Matus  131 Oscar Pizarro  132 Francesco Pomati  133 Eric Post  95 Herbert H T Prins  134 John C Priscu  135 Pieter Provoost  7 Kathleen L Prudic  136 Erkki Pulliainen  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   19   20   21   22   23   24   25   26   27   28   29   30   31   32   33   34   35   36   37   38   39   40   41   42   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BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

Maria Dornelas et al. Glob Ecol Biogeogr. 2018 Jul.

Abstract

Motivation: The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range of metrics. BioTIME is being developed as a community-led open-source database of biodiversity time series. Our goal is to accelerate and facilitate quantitative analysis of temporal patterns of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.

Main types of variables included: The database contains 8,777,413 species abundance records, from assemblages consistently sampled for a minimum of 2 years, which need not necessarily be consecutive. In addition, the database contains metadata relating to sampling methodology and contextual information about each record.

Spatial location and grain: BioTIME is a global database of 547,161 unique sampling locations spanning the marine, freshwater and terrestrial realms. Grain size varies across datasets from 0.0000000158 km2 (158 cm2) to 100 km2 (1,000,000,000,000 cm2).

Time period and grain: BioTIME records span from 1874 to 2016. The minimal temporal grain across all datasets in BioTIME is a year.

Major taxa and level of measurement: BioTIME includes data from 44,440 species across the plant and animal kingdoms, ranging from plants, plankton and terrestrial invertebrates to small and large vertebrates.

Software format: .csv and .SQL.

Keywords: biodiversity; global; spatial; species richness; temporal; turnover.

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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Top: Geographical locations of all the records included in BioTIME in dark grey, with central points per study shown as circles of different colour and size, according to taxa and number of species. Bottom: Map overlaid with ∼4° grid cells coloured by the length of the full or partial time series contained within each cell
Figure 2
Figure 2
Proportion of studies that fall into the different classifications of: Climate, number of years sampled, realm, taxa and biome

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