TY - JOUR

T1 - The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

AU - Hudson, Lawrence N.

AU - Slade, Eleanor Margaret

PY - 2017/1

Y1 - 2017/1

N2 - The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.

AB - The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical models of how local biodiversity responds to these measures. We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. We outline how the database can help in answering a range of questions in ecology and conservation biology. To our knowledge, this is the largest and most geographically and taxonomically representative database of spatial comparisons of biodiversity that has been collated to date; it will be useful to researchers and international efforts wishing to model and understand the global status of biodiversity.

KW - data sharing

KW - global biodiversity modeling

KW - global change

KW - habitat destruction

KW - land use

U2 - 10.1002/ece3.2579

DO - 10.1002/ece3.2579

M3 - Journal article

VL - 7

SP - 145

EP - 188

JO - Ecology and Evolution

JF - Ecology and Evolution

SN - 2045-7758

IS - 1

ER -