1. The PREDICTS database: A global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts
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Hudson, Lawrence N., Newbold, Tim, Contu, Sara, Hill, Samantha L.L., Lysenko, Igor, De Palma, Adriana, Phillips, Helen R.P., Senior , Rebecca A., Bennett, Dominic J., Booth, Hollie, Choimes, Argyrios, Correia, David L.P., Day, Julie, Echeverria-Londono, Susy, Garon, Morgan, Harrison, Michelle L.K., Ingram, Daniel J., Jung, Martin, Kemp, Victoria, Kirkpatrick, Lucinda, Martin, Callum D., Pan, Yuan, White, Hannah J., Aben, Job, Abrahamczyk, Stefan, Adum, Gilbert B., Aguilar-Barquero, Virginia, Aizen, Marcelo A., Ancrenaz, Marc, Arbelaez-Cortes, Enrique, Armbrecht, Inge, Azhar, Badrul, Azpiroz, Adrian B., Baeten, Lander, Báldi, András, Banks, John E., Barlow, Jos, Batary, Péter, Bates, Adam J., Bayne, Erin M., Beja, Pedro, Berg, Ake, Berry, Nicholas J., Bicknell, Jake E., Bihn, Jochen H., Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, Boekhout, Teun, Boutin , Céline, Bouyer, Jérémy, Brearley, Francis Q., Brito, Isabel, Brunet, Jorg, Buczkowski, Grzegorz, Buscardo, Erika, Cabra-Garcia, Jimmy, Calvino-Cancela, Maria, Cameron, Sydney A., Cancello, Eliana M., Carrijo, Tiago F., Carvalho, Anelena, Castro, Helena, Castro-Luna, Alejandro a., Cerda, Rolando, Cerezo, Alexis, Chauvat, Matthieu, Clarke, Frank M., Cleary, Daniel F. R., Connop, Stuart P., D'Aniello, Biagio, da Silva, Pedro Giovani, Darvill, Ben, Dauber, Jens, Dejean, Alain, Diekötter, Tim, Dominguez-Haydar, Yamileth, Dormann, Carsten F., Dumont, Bertrand, Dures, Simon G., Dynesius, Mats, Edenius, Lars, Eleki, Zoltan, Entling, Martin H., Farwig , Nina, Fayle, Tom M., Felicioli, Antonio, Felton, Annika M., Ficetola, Gentile Francesco, Filgueiras, Bruno K. C., Fonte, Steven J., Fraser, Lauchlan H., Fukuda, Daisuke, Furlani, Dario, Ganzhorn, Jörg U., Garden, Jenni G., Gheler-Costa, Carla, Giordani, Paolo, Giordano, Simonetta, Gottschalk, Marco S., Goulson, Dave, Le Feon, Violette, Natural History Museum [Oslo], University of Oslo (UiO), United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Computational Ecology and Environmental Science, Microsoft Research, United Nations Environment Programma World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Imperial College London, Africa Regional Office, Frankfurt Zoological Society, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Center Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), University of Stirling, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences [Sheffield], University of Sheffield [Sheffield], School of Biological Sciences [Belfast], Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), Evolutionary Ecology Group, University of Antwerp (UA), Nees Institut for Plant Biodiversity, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Department of Wildlife and Range Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Save the frogs! Ghana, Escuela de Biologia, Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente [Bariloche] (INIBIOMA-CONICET), Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas [Buenos Aires] (CONICET)-Universidad Nacional del Comahue [Neuquén] (UNCOMA), Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Program, Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Program (HUTAN), Facultad de Ciencias Museo de Zoologia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Coleccion de Tejidos, Instituto de Investigation de Recursos Biologicos Alexandr von Humboldt, Department of Biology, Universidad del Valle, Institute of Bioscience - Biodiversity Unit, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Forestry, Laboratorio de Genetica de la Conservacion, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable [Montevideo] (IIBCE), Department of Forest and Water Management, Forest & Nature Lab, Universiteit Gent = Ghent University (UGENT), Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit, MTA Centre for Ecological Research, University of Washington, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil] (MPEG), Agroecology, Georg-August-University = Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, University of Birmingham [Birmingham], Department of Biological Sciences, biological Sciences Centre, University of Alberta, Centro de Investigaçao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, The Swedish Biodiversity Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), School of Geosciences [Edinburgh], University of Edinburgh, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent [Canterbury], Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, Department of Animal Ecology, Philipps Universität Marburg = Philipps University of Marburg, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main-Senckenberg – Leibniz Institution for Biodiversity and Earth System Research - Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Leibniz Association-Leibniz Association, Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Biologicum, Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Environment Canada, Science & Technology Branch, Carleton University, Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes (UMR CMAEE), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), School of Science and the Environment, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), University of Évora [Portugal], Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Department of Entomology, Purdue University [West Lafayette], Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Departamento de Ciencias da Vida, Universidade de Coimbra, Escritorio Central do LBA, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA), School of Natural Sciences, Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Instituto de Biociencias, Departamento de Zoologia, Universidade de São Paulo = University of São Paulo (USP), Faculty of Sciences, Department of Ecology and Animal Biology, University of Vigo [ Pontevedra], University of Illinois System, Museu de Zoologia, Centre for Functional ecology, University of Coimbra [Portugal] (UC), Instituto de Biotecnologia y Ecologia Aplicada, Universidad Veracruzana, Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center, Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Faculty of Agronomy, Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems, Universitad de Buenos Aires = University of Buenos Aires [Argentina], Étude et compréhension de la biodiversité (ECODIV), Université de Rouen Normandie (UNIROUEN), Normandie Université (NU)-Normandie Université (NU), University of Aberdeen, Universidade de Aveiro, Sustainability Research Institute, University of East London (UEL), University of Naples Federico II = Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Programa de Pos-graduaçao em Ecologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina = Federal University of Santa Catarina [Florianópolis] (UFSC), British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), Thünen Institute of Biodiversity, Ecologie des forêts de Guyane (ECOFOG), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Université des Antilles et de la Guyane (UAG)-AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (LEFE), Institut Ecologie et Environnement (INEE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), Institute for Nature and Resource Conservation, Department of Landscape Ecology, Kiel University, Department of Biology, Nature Conservation, Institute of Integrative Biology, Programa de Biologia, Universidad del Atlantico, Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213 (UMRH), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS), Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London, Department of Ecology and Environmental Science [Umeå], Umeå University, Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, Centre for Ecological Research [Budapest], Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)-Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), Institute of Environmental Sciences [Landau], University of Koblenz-Landau, Department of Ecology-Conservation Ecology, Faculty of Biology, Faculty of Science, Institute of Entomology, Biology centre of Academy of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine (LECA), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Programa de Pos-Graduaçao em Biologia Animal, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco [Recife] (UFPE), Department of Plant Sciences, University of California [Davis] (UC Davis), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Thompson Rivers University (TRU), IDA Consultants Inc., Okinawa Branch Office, Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH, Biocentre Grindel, University of Hamburg, Seed Consulting Services, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Ecologia aplicada/Applied Ecology, Universidade Sagrado Coraçao, DISTAV, Università degli studi di Genova = University of Genoa (UniGe), Dipartimento di Biologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas = Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), Abeilles et Environnement (AE), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Avignon Université (AU), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology [GHANA] (KNUST), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ghent University [Belgium] (UGENT), Department of Biological Sciences-Lancaster University, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi, Georg-August-University [Göttingen], Universidade do Porto [Porto], Phillips Universität (Marburg), Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main-Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad), Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Centre for Functional ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Università degli studi di Napoli Federico II, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina [Florianópolis] (UFSC), British Trust for Ornithology, Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (ECOLAB), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Biometry and Environmental System Analysis, University of Freiburg [Freiburg], Unité Mixte de Recherches sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213 (UMRH), VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies, The Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), University of California-University of California, Thompson Rivers University, Universita degli studi di Genova, Natural History Museum, Center for Macroecology, Climate and Evolution, The Natural History Museum of Denmark, Queen's University [Belfast] ( QUB ), University of Antwerp ( UA ), University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms), Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology [GHANA] ( KNUST ), Lab INIBIOMA, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas ( CONICET ), Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Program ( HUTAN ), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México ( UNAM ), Instituto de Investigaciones Biologicas Clemente Estable, Ghent University [Belgium] ( UGENT ), MCT/Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi, University of Alberta [Edmonton], University of Porto, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences ( SLU ), senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes [Montpellier] ( CMAEE ), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement [CIRAD] : UMR15, Manchester Metropolitan University ( MMU ), Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Universidade de São Paulo ( USP ), University of Illinois, University of Coimbra [Portugal] ( UC ), Etude et compréhension de la biodiversité ( ECODIV ), Université de Rouen Normandie ( UNIROUEN ), Normandie Université ( NU ) -Normandie Université ( NU ), University of Aveiro, University of East London ( UEL ), Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina [Florianópolis] ( UFSC ), Ecologie des forêts de Guyane ( ECOFOG ), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement ( CIRAD ) -Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Université des Antilles et de la Guyane ( UAG ) -AgroParisTech-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3 ( UPS ), Unité Mixte de Recherches sur les Herbivores ( UMR 1213 Herbivores ), VetAgro Sup ( VAS ) -AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ), Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Ecology Research Group, Eötvös Loránd University ( ELTE ), Università di Pisa, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine ( LECA ), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 ( UJF ) -Université Savoie Mont Blanc ( USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] ) -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ( CNRS ), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco [Recife], University of California Davis, University of Genova, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Abeilles et Environnement ( AE ), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique ( INRA ) -Université d'Avignon et des Pays de Vaucluse ( UAPV ), Universiteit Gent = Ghent University [Belgium] (UGENT), Universidade do Porto, Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-VetAgro Sup - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche en alimentation, santé animale, sciences agronomiques et de l'environnement (VAS)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement, and Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])
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Habitat destruction ,[ SDV ] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Land use ,Data sharing ,Global change - Abstract
© 2014 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. 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.
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