TY - JOUR

T1 - The PREDICTS database

T2 - a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

AU - Hudson, Lawrence N.

AU - Newbold, Tim

AU - Contu, Sara

AU - Hill, Samantha L. L.

AU - Lysenko, Igor

AU - Palma, Adriana De

AU - Phillips, Helen R. P.

AU - Senior, Rebecca A.

AU - Bennett, Dominic J.

AU - Booth, Hollie

AU - Choimes, Argyrios

AU - Correia, David L. P.

AU - Day, Julie

AU - Echeverría-Londoño, Susy

AU - Harrison, Michelle L. K.

AU - Ingram, Daniel J.

AU - Jung, Martin

AU - Kemp, Victoria

AU - Kirkpatrick, lucinda

AU - Martin, Callum D.

AU - Pan, Yuan

AU - White, Hannah J.

AU - Aben, Job

AU - Abrahamczyk, Stefan

AU - Adum, Gilbert B.

AU - Aguilar-Barquero, Virginia

AU - Ancrenaz, Marc

AU - Arbeláez-Cortés, Enrique

AU - Armbrecht, Inge

AU - Azhar, Badrul

AU - Azpiroz, Adrián B.

AU - Baeten, Lander

AU - Báldi, András

AU - Banks, John E.

AU - Barlow, Jos

AU - Batáry, Péter

AU - Bates, Adam J.

AU - Bayne, Erin M.

AU - Beja, Pedro

AU - Slade, Eleanor M.

N1 - © 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Funded by •UK Natural Environment Research Council. Grant Number: NE/J011193/1 •Imperial College •UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Grant Number: BB/F017324/1 •Hans Rausing Note: Authors are from 245 institutes or universities, many of them are not listed here.

PY - 2014/12

Y1 - 2014/12

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Data sharing

KW - global change

KW - habitat destruction

KW - land use

U2 - 10.1002/ece3.1303

DO - 10.1002/ece3.1303

M3 - Journal article

VL - 4

SP - 4701

EP - 4735

JO - Ecology and Evolution

JF - Ecology and Evolution

SN - 2045-7758

IS - 24

ER -