BioTIME: a database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

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Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27. pp. 760-786.

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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.

Item ID: 55246
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1466-8238
Keywords: biodiversity; global; spatial; species richness; temporal; turnover
Copyright Information: © 2018 The Authors. Global Ecology and Biogeography Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (4.0), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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"The BioTIME consortium emerged from the ERC project BioTIME in 2010. The consortium currently includes 271 authors distributed among 35 countries engaged in collecting biodiversity time series data and committed to sharing it for wider use. We hope that the BioTIME database allows analysis of large‐scale patterns of biodiversity change and contributes to giving credit to the data collectors, without whom synthesis would not be possible."

Funders: European Research Council (ERC), Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (ARC CoE Coral Reef Studies), [and more than 40 additional international funding bodies]
Projects and Grants: ERC Horizon 2020: bioTIME, ARC CoE Coral Reef Studies CE0561432, SFRH/BD/84030/2012
Research Data: http://biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk, https://zenodo.org/record/1095627
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2019 01:12
FoR Codes: 31 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES > 3103 Ecology > 310399 Ecology not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes: 96 ENVIRONMENT > 9608 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity > 960899 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity of Environments not elsewhere classified @ 100%
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