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Earthworm Watch data

Cleaned and anonymised data from the Earthworm Watch citizen science project run by the Natural History Museum, London and Earthwatch Institute (Europe) April 2016 to August...
Victoria Burton; Alan G. Jones; Lucy Robinson; Paul Eggleton; Andy Purvis Citizen Science Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database V1.1

This is an updated version of the 2016 release of the PREDICTS database. Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. One source...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC BY-NC 4.0

The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database [SUPERSEDED]

IMPORTANT NOTICE: THIS VERSION OF THE DATABASE HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED Data review in 2021-2023 has resulted in some changes and additions to the database. The new version...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

Release of data added to the PREDICTS database (November 2022)

This dataset comprises 1,040,752 measurements, collated from 9,544 sampling locations in 46 countries and representing 10,635 species. The data was collated from 115 existing...
Sara Contu; Adriana De Palma; Rachel Bates; Jessica Borer et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

PREDICTS: site-level summary biodiversity and pressure data

This dataset contains site-level summaries of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of...
Lawrence Hudson; Tim Newbold; Sara Contu; Samantha L L Hill et al. Research CC-BY-4.0

The Biodiversity Intactness Index - country, region and global-level summarie...

Using the PREDICTS database of local biodiversity measures at thousands of sites around the world, we statistically modelled how total abundance of organisms and compositional...
Helen Phillips; Adriana De Palma; Ricardo E Gonzalez; Sara Contu et al. Research Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any)

Site-level data used in Gray, Hill et al. (2016) Local biodiversity is higher...

This is the site-level data used to analyses whether sampled biodiversity differs between sites inside and outside protected areas. These data were obtained from the November...
Claudia L Gray; Samantha L L Hill; Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson et al. Research CC-BY-SA-4.0

Site-level data and Jaccard similarities from Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land...

This is the site-level data used in Newbold et al. (2016) "Has land use pushed terrestrial biodiversity beyond the planetary boundary? A global assessment", Science, and the...
Tim Newbold; Lawrence Hudson; Andy Arnell; Sara Contu et al. Research CC-BY-NC-4.0

Site-level dataset used in Phillips et al. (2017) The effect of fragment area...

Habitat fragmentation accompanies habitat loss, and drives additional biodiversity change; but few global biodiversity models explicitly analyse the effects of both...
Helen Phillips; John M Halley; J Nicolas Urbina-Cardona; Andy Purvis Research Creative Commons Attribution

Dataset collated for meta-analysis of the Natural History Museum's grounds

This dataset contains surveyed estimates of species richness of invertebrates and plants in different habitat types, or habitats of different areas. Data was collated from...
Helen Phillips; Sandra Knapp; Andy Purvis Research CC-BY-4.0

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