Abstract
Motivation: The BioTIME database contains raw data on species identities and abundances in ecological assemblages through time. These data enable users to calculate temporal trends in biodiversity within and amongst assemblages using a broad range of metrics. BioTIME is being developed as a community-led open-source database of biodiversity time series. Our goal is to accelerate and facilitate quantitative analysis of temporal patterns of biodiversity in the Anthropocene.
Main types of variables included: The database contains 8,777,413 species abundance records, from assemblages consistently sampled for a minimum of 2 years, which need not necessarily be consecutive. In addition, the database contains metadata relating to sampling methodology and contextual information about each record.
Spatial location and grain: BioTIME is a global database of 547,161 unique sampling locations spanning the marine, freshwater and terrestrial realms. Grain size varies across datasets from 0.0000000158 km
Time period and grain: BioTIME records span from 1874 to 2016. The minimal temporal grain across all datasets in BioTIME is a year.
Major taxa and level of measurement: BioTIME includes data from 44,440 species across the plant and animal kingdoms, ranging from plants, plankton and terrestrial invertebrates to small and large vertebrates.
Software format: .csv and .SQL.
Keywords
biodiversity, global, spatial, species richness, temporal, turnover
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of Publication
7-1-2018
ISSN
1466-822X
Volume
27
Issue
7
PubMed ID
30147447
Publication Title
Global Ecology and Biogeography
Publisher
Wiley
School
School of Science
RAS ID
27228
Funders
Funding information available at https://doi.org/10.1111/geb.12729
Grant Number
ARC Number : CE140100020
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
First Page
760
Last Page
786
Comments
Dornelas, M., Antao, L. H., Moyes, F., Bates, A. E., Magurran, A. E., Adam, D., ... Zetter, M. L.. (2018). BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 27(7), 760–786. Available here