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Global Ecology and Biogeography - BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

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  • 1. University of St Andrews
  • 2. University of Aveiro
  • 3. Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • 4. University of Southampton
  • 5. Department of Forest Ecology, Silva Tarouca Research Institute Brno Czech Republic.
  • 6. Moscow State University
  • 7. UNESCO, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, IOC Project Office for IODE Oostende Belgium.
  • 8. SEO/BirdLife, Marine Programme Barcelona Spain.
  • 9. French Institute of Pondicherry
  • 10. James Cook University
  • 11. Laboratório de Ecologia e Restauração Florestal, Fundação Espaço Eco, Piracicaba, São Paulo Brazil.
  • 12. Bavarian Forest National Park
  • 13. Deakin University
  • 14. Tel Aviv University
  • 15. University of Pisa
  • 16. Aarhus University
  • 17. University of Łódź
  • 18. Bridgewater State University
  • 19. University of Hong Kong
  • 20. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
  • 21. University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 22. University of New Mexico
  • 23. Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
  • 24. Utah State University
  • 25. Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense
  • 26. Florida International University
  • 27. Academia Sinica
  • 28. University of Georgia
  • 29. University of Colorado Boulder
  • 30. Center for Tropical Forest Science Washington District of Columbia.
  • 31. Biosciences Fisheries and Economics UiT- The Arctic University of Norway Tromsø Norway.
  • 32. VU University Amsterdam
  • 33. AZTI Fundazioa, Herrera Kaia Pasaia Spain.
  • 34. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
  • 35. Sao Paulo State University
  • 36. Edith Cowan University
  • 37. Old Dominion University
  • 38. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
  • 39. Ghent University
  • 40. Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • 41. Divisão de Florestas e Estações Experimentais, Floresta Estadual de Assis, Laboratório de Ecologia e Hidrologia Florestal, Instituto Florestal São Paulo Brazil.
  • 42. Smithsonian Institution
  • 43. National Institute of Oceanography, Tel-Shikmona Haifa Israel.
  • 44. University of Tasmania
  • 45. Stanford University
  • 46. University of Gothenburg
  • 47. University of Florida
  • 48. University of Concepción
  • 49. Spanish National Research Council
  • 50. National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium Pingtung County Taiwan.
  • 51. University of São Paulo
  • 52. Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
  • 53. University of Lisbon
  • 54. University of Aberdeen
  • 55. American Museum of Natural History
  • 56. Instituto Florestal, Seção de Ecologia Florestal São Paulo Brazil.
  • 57. Polar Oceans Research Group Sheridan Montana.
  • 58. Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute
  • 59. Tomsk State University
  • 60. United States Department of Agriculture
  • 61. University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • 62. University of Chile
  • 63. University of La Serena
  • 64. United States Environmental Protection Agency
  • 65. Oregon State University
  • 66. University of California, Berkeley
  • 67. Cetacean Research & Rescue Unit Banff United Kingdom.
  • 68. Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina
  • 69. Department of Aquatic Environment and Quality, Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Oostende Belgium.
  • 70. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research Trondheim Norway.
  • 71. Cornell University
  • 72. Grand Valley State University
  • 73. Dartmouth College
  • 74. National Taiwan University
  • 75. University of California, Los Angeles
  • 76. University of Alaska Fairbanks
  • 77. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
  • 78. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • 79. Institute of Marine Research His Norway.
  • 80. University of Saskatchewan
  • 81. Wildlife Conservation Society
  • 82. Centre for Biological Diversity and Scottish Oceans Institute, School of Biology, University of St. Andrews St Andrews United Kingdom.
  • 83. Department of Biology and CESAM Universidade de Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago Aveiro Portugal.
  • 84. National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus Southampton United Kingdom.
  • 85. Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland St John's Newfoundland and Labrador Canada.
  • 86. Department of Geobotany, Faculty of Biology Moscow State University Moscow Russia.
  • 87. Department of Ecology French Institute of Pondicherry Puducherry India.
  • 88. ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University Townsville Queensland Australia.
  • 89. Bavarian Forest National Park Grafenau Germany.
  • 90. School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University Warrnambool Victoria Australia.
  • 91. School of Zoology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv Israel.
  • 92. Department of Biology University of Pisa Pisa, CoNISMa Italy.
  • 93. Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience Aarhus University Aarhus Denmark.
  • 94. Laboratory of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection University of Łódź Łódź Poland.
  • 95. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig Leipzig Germany.
  • 96. Department of Biological Sciences Bridgewater State University Bridgewater Massachusetts.
  • 97. School of Biological Sciences The University of Hong Kong Pok Fu Lam Hong Kong.
  • 98. CSIRO Land & Water Ecosciences Precinct, Dutton Park Queensland Australia.
  • 99. Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara California.
  • 100. Department of Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico.
  • 101. Institute of Biology/Geobotany and Botanical Garden, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg Halle Germany.
  • 102. Department of Watershed Sciences and the Ecology Center, US Geological Survey, UCFWRU and Utah State University Logan Utah.
  • 103. United States Geological Survey
  • 104. Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (PPG-CA) Criciúma Santa Catarina Brazil.
  • 105. Southeast Environmental Research Center (OE 148), Florida International University Miami Florida.
  • 106. Coral Reef Ecology and Evolution Lab Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica Taipei Taiwan.
  • 107. Anthropology, University of Georgia Athens Georgia.
  • 108. Marine Biology and Aquaculture, College of Science and Engineering James Cook University Douglas Queensland Australia.
  • 109. Memorial University, St John's Newfoundland and Labrador Canada.
  • 110. Environmental Studies Program University of Colorado-Boulder.
  • 111. Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam The Netherlands.
  • 112. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Auckland New Zealand.
  • 113. Lab of Vegetation Ecology, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Rio Claro Brazil.
  • 114. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Flagship Hobart Tasmania Australia.
  • 115. School of Science Edith Cowan University Joondalup Western Australia Australia.
  • 116. Department of Biological Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk Virginia.
  • 117. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Operational Directorate Natural Environment, Marine Ecology and Management Brussels Belgium.
  • 118. Marine Biology Research Group, Ghent University Gent Belgium.
  • 119. School of Life and Environmental Sciences Centre for Integrative Ecology (Burwood Campus), Deakin University Geelong Victoria Australia.
  • 120. Joint Nature Conservation Committee Aberdeen United Kingdom.
  • 121. Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Smithsonian Institution Washington, District of Columbia.
  • 122. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania Hobart Tasmania Australia.
  • 123. Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Stanford California.
  • 124. Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences University of Gothenburg Gothenburg Sweden.
  • 125. Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation University of Florida Gainesville FL.
  • 126. Instituto Milenio de Oceanografía, Universidad de Concepción Concepción Chile.
  • 127. CSIC, Global Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB Bellaterra Catalonia Spain.
  • 128. CREAF, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Cerdanyola del Vallès Catalonia Spain.
  • 129. Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • 130. Migratory Bird Center, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, National Zoological Park Washington District of Columbia.
  • 131. Laboratório de Ecologia e Restauração Florestal, Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz", Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil.
  • 132. Departamento de Oceanografia e Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Vitória, Espírito Santo Brazil.
  • 133. Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes - cE3c, Faculty of Sciences University of Lisbon Lisbon Portugal.
  • 134. Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, National Institute for Amazonian Research and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Manaus Brazil.
  • 135. Department of Ecology/PPGE Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
  • 136. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
  • 137. School of Biological Sciences University of Aberdeen Aberdeen United Kingdom.
  • 138. Botanical Department, Faroese Museum of Natural History Torshavn Faroe Islands.
  • 139. Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute Bogotá DC Colombia.
  • 140. Department of Biology Tomsk State University Tomsk, Russia.
  • 141. USDA Forest Service, 65 USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry San Juan Puerto Rico.
  • 142. Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin Madison Wisconsin.
  • 143. The Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources University of Georgia Athens Georgia.
  • 144. Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de La Serena La Serena Chile.
  • 145. Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Aridas (CEAZA) La Serena Chile.
  • 146. Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity (IEB) Santiago Chile.
  • 147. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division Narragansett Rhode Island.
  • 148. Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon.
  • 149. The Energy and Resources Group and The Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management University of California Berkeley California.
  • 150. U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Laboratory Corvallis Oregon.
  • 151. Laboratório de Dendrologia e Fitossociologia, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina Florianópolis Santa Catarina Brazil.
  • 152. Department of Natural Resources and Cornell Biological Field Station Cornell University Ithaca New York.
  • 153. Biology Department Grand Valley State University Allendale Michigan.
  • 154. Dartmouth College Hanover New Hampshire.
  • 155. Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University Taipei Taiwan.
  • 156. University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles California.
  • 157. EWHALE lab- Biology and Wildlife Department Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks Alaska.
  • 158. Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute Moss Landing California.
  • 159. Department of Biology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill North Carolina.
  • 160. Department of Biology University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada.
  • 161. College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University Corvallis Oregon.
  • 162. Wildlife Conservation Society Indonesia Program Bogor Indonesia.
  • 163. Department of Wildlife Fish, and Conservation Biology, University of California, Davis Davis California.
  • 164. University of California, Davis
  • 165. Shetland Oil Terminal Environmental Advisory Group (SOTEAG) St Andrews United Kingdom.
  • 166. Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management Norwegian University of Life Sciences Ås Norway.
  • 167. Department of Natural Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Centre for Coastal Research, University of Agder Kristiansand Norway.
  • 168. Florida State University Coastal and Marine Laboratory St Teresa Florida.
  • 169. Florida State University
  • 170. Channel Islands National Park, U. S. National Park Service California, Ventura California.
  • 171. Zoology, Ryan Institute, School of Natural Sciences, NUI Galway Galway Ireland.
  • 172. Forest and Climate Change Adaptation Laboratory Center for Forest and Climate Change, National Institute of Forest Science Seoul Republic of Korea.
  • 173. Department of Biological Sciences Virginia Institute of Marine Science, The College of William & Mary, Gloucester Point Virginia.
  • 174. Département des sciences de l'environnement Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières and Centre d'études nordiques Québec Canada.
  • 175. Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • 176. Department of Biology Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico Albuquerque New Mexico.
  • 177. Vermont Center for Ecostudies Hartford Vermont USA.
  • 178. Museu de Ciències Naturals de Granollers Catalunya Spain.
  • 179. Hawai'i Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, Kaneohe Hawai'i USA.
  • 180. University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • 181. Department of Biological Sciences Macquarie University Sydney New South Wales Australia.
  • 182. Macquarie University
  • 183. Icelandic Institute of Natural History Garðabær Iceland.
  • 184. School of Biology and Ecology Sustainability Solutions Initiative, University of Maine Orono Maine.
  • 185. INSTAAR, University of Colorado Boulder Colorado.
  • 186. Stream Biomonitoring Program, Mainspring Conservation Trust Franklin North Carolina.
  • 187. Department of Biological Sciences University of Idaho Moscow Idaho.
  • 188. Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre (EERC), School of Environment and Life Sciences, University of Salford Salford United Kingdom.
  • 189. Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen Copenhagen Denmark.
  • 190. University of Copenhagen
  • 191. Laboratory of Phytoresources, Kovalevsky Institute of Marine Biological Research of RAS (IMBR) Sevastopol Russia.
  • 192. Aquatic Survey & Monitoring Ltd. ASML Durham United Kingdom.
  • 193. Ceiba Consultoria Ambiental Bragança Paulista Brazil.
  • 194. Field Station Fabrikschleichach, University of Würzburg Rauhenebrach Germany.
  • 195. University of Würzburg
  • 196. Department of Biology Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia Canada.
  • 197. Dalhousie University
  • 198. School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Edinburgh United Kingdom.
  • 199. University of Edinburgh
  • 200. Biology Department Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City Oklahoma.
  • 201. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy Sciences St Petersburg Russia.
  • 202. Marine Scotland, Marine Laboratory Scottish Government Edinburgh United Kingdom.
  • 203. Department of Biology University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette Louisiana.
  • 204. BirdWatch Ireland Kilcoole Wicklow Ireland.
  • 205. University of Arizona Health Sciences Library, University of Arizona Tucson Arizona.
  • 206. University of Arizona
  • 207. Center for Forest Research, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) Montreal Quebec Canada.
  • 208. University of Quebec at Montreal
  • 209. UMR AMAP, IRD, CIRAD, CNRS, INRA, Montpellier University Montpellier France.
  • 210. INRAE
  • 211. Subtidal Ecology Laboratory & Center for Marine Conservation, Estación Costera de Investigaciones Marinas Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Santiago Casilla Chile.
  • 212. Australian Centre of Field Robotics, University of Sydney Sydney New South Wales Australia.
  • 213. University of Sydney
  • 214. Department of Aquatic Ecology Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Switzerland.
  • 215. Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
  • 216. Resource Ecology Group, Wageningen University Wageningen The Netherlands.
  • 217. Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences Montana State University Bozeman Montana.
  • 218. Entomology, University of Arizona Tucson Arizona.
  • 219. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Cold Spring Harbor New York.
  • 220. Ichthyology Laboratory, Fisheries and Aquaculture University of Aveiro Aveiro Portugal.
  • 221. Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota St Paul Minnesota.
  • 222. University of Minnesota
  • 223. Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University Penrith New South Wales Australia.
  • 224. Western Sydney University
  • 225. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere Queensland, BioSciences Precinct (QBP) St Lucia, Brisbane Qld Australia.
  • 226. Centre for Applications in Natural Resource Mathematics, The University of Queensland St Lucia Queensland Australia.
  • 227. University of Queensland
  • 228. Virginia Institute of Marine Science Gloucester Point Virginia.
  • 229. Metapopulation Research Centre, Faculty of Biosciences, University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland.
  • 230. University of Helsinki
  • 231. Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences, College of the Coast and Environment Louisiana State University Baton Rouge Louisiana.
  • 232. Louisiana State University
  • 233. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research Davos Dorf Switzerland.
  • 234. Departamento de Zoologia e Botânica, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP Câmpus São José do Rio Preto, São José do Rio Preto Brazil.
  • 235. Department of Animal Physiology, Eberhard Karls University Tübingen Tübingen Germany.
  • 236. University of Tübingen
  • 237. National Research Program, U.S. Geological Survey Reston Virginia.
  • 238. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Center for Limnology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison Wisconsin.
  • 239. Department of Life Sciences Imperial College London Ascot Berkshire United Kingdom.
  • 240. Imperial College London
  • 241. Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, UNICAMP Campinas Brazil.
  • 242. Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Escola Superior de Agricultura 'Luiz de Queiroz', Universidade de São Paulo São Paulo Brazil.
  • 243. Department of Biology Utica College Utica New York.
  • 244. Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences University of Illinois Champaign Illinois.
  • 245. Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica Nankang, Taipei Taiwan.
  • 246. Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole Massachusetts USA.
  • 247. Maine Department of Marine Resources Bangor Maine.
  • 248. Tulane University New Orleans Louisiana.
  • 249. Environmental Sciences Department Federal University of São Carlos Sorocaba Brazil.
  • 250. USP/WSAOBIS São Paulo Brazil.
  • 251. Department of Biological Sciences, Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation University of CapeTown Rondebosch South Africa.
  • 252. Fynbos Node, South African Environmental Observation Network Claremont South Africa.
  • 253. Coastal Finfish Section, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Marine Resources Research Institute Charleston South Carolina.
  • 254. Conservation Biology Department Institute of Environmental Studies, CML, Leiden University Leiden The Netherlands.
  • 255. Leiden University
  • 256. Laboratório de Biologia e Tecnologia Pesqueira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil.
  • 257. College of Marine Science University of South Florida St. Petersburg Florida.
  • 258. University of South Florida
  • 259. Ethica Ambiental Vila Velha Brazil.
  • 260. INBO, Research Institute for Nature and Forest Brussels Belgium.
  • 261. Centro de Estudos em Recursos Naturais, Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul Dourados Mato Grosso do Sul Brazil.
  • 262. School of Biology and Ecology University of Maine Orono Maine.
  • 263. Natural Resources Institute Finland, University of Oulu Oulu Finland.
  • 264. Instituto Florestal, Divisão de Florestas e Estações Experimentais, Estação Experimental de Bauru Bauru Brazil.
  • 265. Department of Biology University of Bergen Bergen Norway.
  • 266. University of Bergen
  • 267. GEOMATRIX UAB Kaunas Lithuania.
  • 268. Universidad Austral de Chile and Centro FONDAP en Dinámica de Ecosistemas Marinos de Altas Latitudes (IDEAL) Valdivia Chile.
  • 269. Department of Biology Saint Louis University Saint Louis Missouri.
  • 270. Escola de Agronomia, Universidade Federal de Goiás Goiânia Brazil.
  • 271. Department of Environmental Affairs Oceans and Coastal Research Cape Town South Africa.
  • 272. Department of Biological Sciences Marine Research Institute University of Cape Town Cape Town South Africa.
  • 273. University of Cape Town
  • 274. Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, VAST Hanoi Vietnam.
  • 275. Vietnam National Museum of Nature Hanoi Vietnam.
  • 276. Graduate University of Science and Technology, VAST Hanoi Vietnam.
  • 277. Biology Department, Drew University Madison New Jersey.
  • 278. Environmental Studies Department, Drew University Madison New Jersey.
  • 279. Laboratory of Forest Biology Wrocław University Wroclaw Poland.
  • 280. Department of Wildlife Ecology & Conservation University of Florida Gainesville Florida.
  • 281. Informatics Institute, University of Florida Gainesville Florida.
  • 282. Plymouth Marine Laboratory Plymouth United Kingdom.
  • 283. Department of Natural Sciences McPherson College McPherson Kansas.
  • 284. Australian Antarctic Division, Channel Highway Kingston Tasmania Australia.
  • 285. Department of Biology University of York York United Kingdom.
  • 286. University of York
  • 287. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering University of Connecticut Mansfield Connecticut.
  • 288. University of Connecticut
  • 289. Institute of Marine Sciences, School of Biological Sciences, University of Portsmouth Portsmouth United Kingdom.
  • 290. Research Team Mountain Ecosystems, WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF Davos Switzerland.
  • 291. Natural Sciences, Bennington College Bennington Vermont.
  • 292. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Seestr. 15, D-18119 Rostock Germany.
  • 293. Norwegian University of Life Sciences
  • 294. University of Agder
  • 295. National Park Service
  • 296. National University of Ireland, Galway
  • 297. College of William & Mary
  • 298. University of Maine
  • 299. University of Idaho
  • 300. University of Salford
  • 301. ASML Holding
  • 302. Oklahoma State University–Stillwater
  • 303. Russian Academy of Sciences
  • 304. Marine Scotland
  • 305. University of Louisiana at Lafayette
  • 306. Université du Québec à Montréal
  • 307. Centre national de la recherche scientifique
  • 308. Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
  • 309. Wageningen University and Research Centre
  • 310. Montana State University
  • 311. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
  • 312. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
  • 313. State University of Campinas
  • 314. Utica College
  • 315. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
  • 316. Marine Biological Laboratory
  • 317. Tulane University
  • 318. Federal University of São Carlos
  • 319. National Fund for Scientific Research
  • 320. University of Oulu
  • 321. Austral University of Chile
  • 322. Saint Louis University
  • 323. Universidade Federal de Goiás
  • 324. Hanoi University of Science and Technology
  • 325. Drew University
  • 326. University of Wrocław
  • 327. Plymouth Marine Laboratory
  • 328. McPherson College
  • 329. Australian Antarctic Division
  • 330. University of Portsmouth
  • 331. Bennington College
  • 332. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research

Description

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 km(2) (158 cm(2)) to 100 km(2) (1,000,000,000,000 cm(2)).Time period and grainBio: TIME 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.
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