Ecoinformatics Links
Climate & Environment:
DAYMET US Data Center -- Univ. Montana
Net Primary Productivity
Database -- Oak Ridge National Labporatory
Numerical
Terradynamics Simulation Group -- Univ. Montana
Quin Yu's Climate and Weather links
Jason writes: I've created a folder on Zizania called "GIS_shared". In this I've placed a "Daymet" folder that contains km x km grids of the contiguous US of various climate summary variables, derived from the Daymet project (www.daymet.org). The grids are ready for general use, and contain variables describing mean and s.d. of temperature, precipitation, shortwave radiation, vapor pressure, and related items like frost and growing degree days, for the years 1980-1997. Along with the raster files I've included a daymet_readme document that summarizes the files, as well as the Daymet User's Manual in pdf.
Data sources:
CEED
-- Caveat Emptor Ecological Data Repository
SALVIAS:
Spatial analysis of local vegetation inventories across scales
Spatial
Data Resources -- UNC Library
Geographic Network - ESRI
National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
- FGDC
EROS Data Center - USGS
Australian Natural Resource
Atlas
Ecoinformatics tools
EcoInformatics.org -- An online
data and information management source
EML -- The Ecolgoical
Metadata Language
International
Society for Ecological Information
Knowledge
Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Metacat -- The
flexible XML Database
SALVIAS
-- Spatial analysis of local vegetation inventories across scales
SEEK -- Science Environment
for Ecological Knowledge
CBI -- USGS Center for Biological
Informatics
Environmental
Informatics - SDSC
Modeling:
Swarm
Simulation System
EcoSim
Phylogeny:
Angiosperm
Phylogeny Website
Phylomatic:
A database for applied phylogenetics
Phylogenetics
Software Resources
Phylogeny
Programs
TreeBase
Plant traits: see
expanded list
BiolFlor
FloVegSi
USDA
Plants Database
UConn Plant database
Plot data:
Gentry
Forest Transect Dataset
LTER
Data
LTER
Sites
NVS
-- New Zealand Vegetation Survey
RAINFOR
(based at Leeds University UK; Amazon Forest Inventory Network)
VegBank
-- ESA Vegetation Panel Plot Archive
USGS - NPS Vegetation Mapping Program
Statistical tools
ADE4
Community
analysis programs -- Dave Roberts' package
CANOCO
Geographically
weighted regression
Jari
Oksanen's Software for community analysis
JUICE
-- Program for analysis and classification of phytosociological tables
Mike Plamer's Ordination
Webpage
MULVA
PC-ORD
SYN-TAX
Vegan --
Jari Oksanen's package
VTAB
Taxonomic name and distribution
data:
Federal
Geographic Data Committee, Biological Data Working Group
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
International
Plant Names Index
International
Working Group on Taxonomic Databases
Mexican
Biodiversity Information Network - REMIB
NatureServe Explorer -
Community and Species classification
Species Analyst
USDA
Plants Database
VegBank -- ESA Vegetation Panel
Plot Archive
W3 TROPICOS