The database of the predicts (projecting responses of ecological diversity In changing terrestrial systems) project

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In ChangingTerrestrial Systems (https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/pre-dicts.html)— 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 loca-tions 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 knowl-edge, 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

• Autores: López Quintero, Carlos Alberto
• Tipo de recurso: Article of investigation
• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad de Antioquia
• Repositorio: Repositorio UdeA
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/45964
• Acceso en línea: https://hdl.handle.net/10495/45964
• Palabra clave: Difusión de la Información; Information Dissemination; Uso de la tierra; Land use; Pérdida de hábitat; Habitat loss; Biodiversidad; Biodiversity; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_353cbc9f; http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_33949; https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D033181; ODS 15: Vida de ecosistemas terrestres. Proteger, restablecer y promover el uso sostenible de los ecosistemas terrestres, gestionar sosteniblemente los bosques, luchar contra la desertificación, detener e invertir la degradación de las tierras y detener la pérdida de biodiversidad
• Rights: openAccess
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/