Tag: geographical location

Darwin Core (DwC) is a vocabulary that includes a glossary of terms (in other contexts these might be called properties, elements, fields, columns, attributes, or concepts) intended to facilitate the sharing of information about biological diversity ...

The Coral Trait Database is a growing compilation of scleractinian coral life history trait, phylogenetic and biogeographic data. As of today, there are 68247 coral observations with 105243 trait entries of 147 traits for 1548 coral species in the da ...

VertNet is a NSF-funded collaborative project that makes biodiversity data free and available on the web. VertNet is a tool designed to help people discover, capture, and publish biodiversity data. It is also the core of a collaboration between hundr ...

The Date Palm Resequence Database (DRDB) is an online genomic resource database for date palm. It was created to distinguish different sub-types of date palms and mine genetic variation of interest. The DRDB includes SNPs (single nucleotide polymorph ...

The Ag Data Commons is a public, government, scientific research data catalog and repository available to help the agricultural research community share and discover research data funded by the United States Department of Agriculture and meet Federal ...

Biological collections are replete with taxonomic, geographic, temporal, numerical, and historical information. This information is crucial for understanding and properly managing biodiversity and ecosystems, but is often difficult to access. Data pu ...

In setting out to establish standards for data fields in botanical databases, the International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases for Plant Sciences (TDWG) identified at an early stage of its existence a need for an agreed system of geographical u ...

The Plant Occurrence and Status Scheme (POSS) has been developed to provide standard terms for recording the occurrence of a plant taxon for a specific location. As with all standards, POSS aims to provide both a clear, unambiguous framework for info ...

The National Inventory of Natural Heritage (INPN) is a repository for data needed for the development of conservation strategies and the dissemination of information as well as national and international reports relating to the French natural heritag ...

This ontology was designed to help integrate species concepts with species occurrences, gene sequences, images, references and geographical information.

DEIMS-SDR (Dynamic Ecological Information Management System - Site and Dataset Registry) is an information management system for the discovery of long-term environmental research and monitoring facilities around the globe, along with the data gathere ...

The European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization Global Database (EPPO) GD provides all pest-specific information that has been produced or collected by EPPO. Data includes plant and pest species (such as scientific names, synonyms, commo ...

Reference Plant Ontologies are being developed in the context of the Planteome project and are being integrated with the Crop Ontology, which provides harmonized breeders’ trait names, measurement methods, scales and standard variables for many crops ...

The aim of e-ReColNat is to build a huge database consisting of species occurrence records through time, which will feed all kind of research and expertise in biodiversity survey, modelling global change, etc.

The Environmental Thesaurus is a controlled vocabulary built to aid integration of the data resulting from long term ecological research and monitoring in Europe (eLTER). It provides described and semantically well defined terms for later analysis an ...

EMODnet-Physics map portal (www.emodnet-physics.eu/map) provides a single point of access to validated in situ datasets, products and their physical parameter metadata of European Seas and global oceans.

The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System (CLASS) is designed to support long-term, secure preservation and standards-based access to environmental data collections and information. Developed by NOAA, CLASS distributes NOAA and US Departm ...

LIAS is a global information system for Lichenized and Non-Lichenized Ascomycetes. It includes several interoperable data repositories. In recent years, the two core components ‘LIAS names’ and ‘LIAS light’ have been enlarged. LIAS light stores pheno ...