Abstract 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.
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project
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Published 2016 in Ecology and Evolution
ABSTRACT
PUBLICATION RECORD
- Publication year
2016
- Venue
Ecology and Evolution
- Publication date
2016-12-16
- Fields of study
Geography, Medicine, Biology, Environmental Science
- Identifiers
- External record
- Source metadata
Semantic Scholar, PubMed
CITATION MAP
EXTRACTION MAP
CLAIMS
CONCEPTS
- 2016 release
The specific 2016 version of the PREDICTS database described in the abstract.
Aliases: 2016 database release
- biodiversity records
Individual observational records of biodiversity stored in the database.
Aliases: records
- ecological and conservation biology
Research areas that use biodiversity data to study ecosystems and inform conservation.
Aliases: ecology and conservation biology
- land use and human impacts
Human-driven changes associated with how land is used, which vary among the sampled sites.
Aliases: human impacts relating to land use, human impact gradients
- predicts database
The compiled database of comparable biodiversity samples produced by the PREDICTS project.
Aliases: database of the PREDICTS project
- predicts project
A research project that assembles comparable biodiversity data from multiple sites with different human-impact conditions.
Aliases: Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems, PREDICTS
- published studies
Previously published source studies from which the database entries were collated.
- spatial comparisons of biodiversity
Comparisons of biodiversity across multiple locations that differ in conditions or impact levels.
Aliases: comparisons of biodiversity from multiple sites