NCEAS Modeling Working Group, Australian Wet Tropics Data Set (transfer facilitated by Karen Richardson, Andrew Ford, and Stephen Williams ).
2006
NCEAS Modeling Working Group: Australian Wet Tropics
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database
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NCEAS, St Barbara
NCEAS, Elith et al. 2006
See publications affilicated with NCEAS and this dataset.
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This data set describes distriution data of 20 bird species and 20 plant species for the Wet Tropics of Australia and it was used for the NCEAS working group, for instance in the model publication Elith et al. (2006). This project was based on overall 6 international data sets which are described elsewhere.
Here the data are described in generic terms so that transparent and repeatable research can be carried out and for benchmark assessments of model applications and creative use of data for conservation purposes.
For modeling purposes, this multi species data set was extended with 13 predictors and it carries a cell size of 80m.
The mean number of records per species is from 35 -155 for presence only,, and 30 to 97 for presence/absence. It consists of 102 to 340 unique sites.
This dataset about multispecies in the Wet Tropics of Australia is provided as a proper description of ISO-compliant FGDC open access data for modeling research purposes. This metadata set complements several research publications in the NCEAS working group, namly Elith et al. (2006).
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Wet Tropical region in Australa (North East Australia)
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114
60
49
394
639
meters
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Bird survey data
Bird atlas
Plants
Plant survey data
NCEAS working Group
Modeling
Prediction
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Wet tropics
Australia
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1990s
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animals
multiple species
single species
collection
birds
plants
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Authors
NCEAS working Group
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Unclassified
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MS Excel sheets and databases
Can be used for model predictions, e.g. maxent, machine learning and many others; details see Ellth et al. (2006)
As published by authors
Logically consistent
Complete as received
Dataset was geo-referenced with GPS
For details contact original data holders and authors.
Field
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Bird surveys
Plant data
Presence/absence
GIS
Model
Data were received from data holder and
then used in a GIS for model work.
They were collected last 20 years.
Later, predictors were added, as stated
in Elith et al. 2006 and forthcoming,
Elith et al. (2006)
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publication date
Authors of the data set and for the study by Elith et al 20
Contact authors for details.
Data were collected last 20 years
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Location names
Point
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Decimal degrees
World Geodetic System of 1984
World Geodetic System of 1984
6378137
298.25722210088
National Geodetic Vertical Datum of 1929
meters
Multi species data for birds and plants
Bird and plant data content
Data originator
Latitude
Coordinate
Originator
Longitude
Coordinate
Originator
Species Name
Bird Species presence
Originator
This data set consist of 20 plants and 20 birds and their 13 predictor columns
Elith et al. 2006
See authors for specific data contribution and inquire with lead author for details
Data file
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ASCII
No compression applied
Call or email
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Call or email or in person
GIS and computer
20191130
Falk Huettmann
Uni of Alaska Fairbanks
FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata
FGDC-STD-001.1-1999