Comprehensive, time‐scaled phylogenies provide a critical resource for many questions in ecology, evolution and biodiversity. Methodological advances have increased the breadth of taxonomic coverage in phylogenetic data; however, accessing and reusing these data remain challenging. We introduce the Fish Tree of Life website and associated We demonstrate functionality with an overview of the website, and show three examples of advanced usage through the This resource makes a large comparative vertebrate dataset easily accessible via the website, while the
Population dynamics play a central role in the historical and current development of fundamental and applied ecological science. The nascent culture of open data promises to increase the value of population dynamics studies to the field of ecology. However, synthesis of population data is constrained by the difficulty in identifying relevant datasets, by the heterogeneity of available data and by access to raw (as opposed to aggregated or derived) observations. To obviate these issues, we built a relational database, We implemented popler as a PostgreSQL instance, where we stored population data originated by the United States Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network. Our focus on the US LTER data aims to leverage the potential of this vast open data resource. The database currently contains 305 datasets from 25 LTER sites. The combination of the online database and the
- Award ID(s):
- 1655499
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10457227
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Methods in Ecology and Evolution
- Volume:
- 11
- Issue:
- 2
- ISSN:
- 2041-210X
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 258-264
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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