The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The col...

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Publicado:	2014
Materias:	Data sharing Global change Habitat destruction Land use Amphibia Aves Coleoptera Gymnospermae Hymenoptera Lepidoptera Magnoliophyta Mammalia Reptilia
Acceso en línea:	https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario
Aporte de:	Biblioteca Digital - Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales (UBA) de Universidad de Buenos Aires

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spelling	paper:paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario2023-06-08T16:33:40Z The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts Data sharing Global change Habitat destruction Land use Amphibia Aves Coleoptera Gymnospermae Hymenoptera Lepidoptera Magnoliophyta Mammalia Reptilia Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodiversity indicators, is necessary to enable better understanding of historical declines and to project - and avert - future declines. We describe and assess a new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database contains measurements taken in 208 (of 814) ecoregions, 13 (of 14) biomes, 25 (of 35) biodiversity hotspots and 16 (of 17) megadiverse countries. The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups - including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. The dataset, which is still being added to, is therefore already considerably larger and more representative than those used by previous quantitative models of biodiversity trends and responses. The database is being assembled as part of the PREDICTS project (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems - www.predicts.org.uk). We make site-level summary data available alongside this article. The full database will be publicly available in 2015. The collation of biodiversity datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents is necessary to understand historical declines and to project - and hopefully avert - future declines. We describe a newly collated database of more than 1.6 million biodiversity measurements from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. © 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 2014 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario
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topic	Data sharing Global change Habitat destruction Land use Amphibia Aves Coleoptera Gymnospermae Hymenoptera Lepidoptera Magnoliophyta Mammalia Reptilia
spellingShingle	Data sharing Global change Habitat destruction Land use Amphibia Aves Coleoptera Gymnospermae Hymenoptera Lepidoptera Magnoliophyta Mammalia Reptilia The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
topic_facet	Data sharing Global change Habitat destruction Land use Amphibia Aves Coleoptera Gymnospermae Hymenoptera Lepidoptera Magnoliophyta Mammalia Reptilia
description	Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodiversity indicators, is necessary to enable better understanding of historical declines and to project - and avert - future declines. We describe and assess a new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database contains measurements taken in 208 (of 814) ecoregions, 13 (of 14) biomes, 25 (of 35) biodiversity hotspots and 16 (of 17) megadiverse countries. The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups - including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. The dataset, which is still being added to, is therefore already considerably larger and more representative than those used by previous quantitative models of biodiversity trends and responses. The database is being assembled as part of the PREDICTS project (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems - www.predicts.org.uk). We make site-level summary data available alongside this article. The full database will be publicly available in 2015. The collation of biodiversity datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents is necessary to understand historical declines and to project - and hopefully avert - future declines. We describe a newly collated database of more than 1.6 million biodiversity measurements from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. © 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
title	The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
title_short	The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
title_full	The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
title_fullStr	The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
title_full_unstemmed	The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
title_sort	predicts database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
publishDate	2014
url	https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_20457758_v4_n24_p4701_Multitudinario
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The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

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