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The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project

  • Lawrence N Hudson
  • , Tim Newbold
  • , Hollie Booth
  • , Maria Calvino-Cancela
  • , Sydney A Cameron
  • , Eliana M Cancello
  • , Rut Caparros
  • , Pedro Cardoso
  • , Dan Carpenter
  • , Tiago F Carrijo
  • , Anelena L Carvalho
  • , Camila R Cassano
  • , Helena Castro
  • , Victoria J Burton
  • , Alejandro A Castro-Luna
  • , Cerda B Rolando
  • , Alexis Cerezo
  • , Kim Alan Chapman
  • , Matthieu Chauvat
  • , Morten Christensen
  • Francis M Clarke, Daniel F R Cleary, Giorgio Colombo, Stuart P Connop, Charlotte W T Chng, Michael D Craig, Leopoldo Cruz-Lopez, Saul A Cunningham, Biagio D'Aniello, Neil D'Cruze, Pedro Giovani da Silva, Martin Dallimer, Emmanuel Danquah, Ben Darvill, Jens Dauber, Argyrios Choimes, Adrian L V Davis, Jeff Dawson, Claudio de Sassi, Benoit de Thoisy, Olivier Deheuvels, Alain Dejean, Jean-Louis Devineau, Tim Diekotter, Jignasu V Dolia, Erwin Dominguez, David L P Correia, Yamileth Dominguez-Haydar, Silvia Dorn, Isabel Draper, Niels Dreber, Bertrand Dumont, Simon G Dures, Mats Dynesius, Lars Edenius, Paul Eggleton, Felix Eigenbrod, Julie Day, Zoltan Elek, Martin H Entling, Karen J Esler, Ricardo F de Lima, Aisyah Faruk, Nina Farwig, Tom M Fayle, Antonio Felicioli, Annika M Felton, Roderick J Fensham, Susy Echeverria-Londono, Ignacio C Fernandez, Catarina C Ferreira, Gentile F Ficetola, Cristina Fiera, Bruno K C Filgueiras, Huseyin K Firincioglu, David Flaspohler, Andreas Floren, Steven J Fonte, Anne Fournier, Susan R Emerson, Robert E Fowler, Markus Franzen, Lauchlan H Fraser, Gabriella M Fredriksson, Geraldo B Freire, Tiago L M Frizzo, Daisuke Fukuda, Dario Furlani, Rene Gaigher, Jorg U Ganzhorn, Di Gao, Karla P Garcia, Juan C Garcia-R, Jenni G Garden, Ricardo Garilleti, Bao-Ming Ge, Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume, Philippa J Gerard, Carla Gheler-Costa, Benjamin Gilbert, Paolo Giordani, Morgan Garon, Simonetta Giordano, Carly Golodets, Laurens G L Gomes, Rachelle K Gould, Dave Goulson, Aaron D Gove, Laurent Granjon, Ingo Grass, Claudia L Gray, James Grogan, Sara Contu, Michelle L K Harrison, Weibin Gu, Moises Guardiola, Nihara R Gunawardene, Alvaro G Gutierrez, Doris L Gutierrez-Lamus, Daniela H Haarmeyer, Mick E Hanley, Thor Hanson, Nor R Hashim, Shombe N Hassan, Daniel J Ingram, Richard G Hatfield, Joseph E Hawes, Matt W Hayward, Christian Hebert, Alvin J Helden, John-Andre Henden, Philipp Henschel, Lionel Hernandez, James P Herrera, Farina Herrmann, Martin Jung, Felix Herzog, Diego Higuera-Diaz, Branko Hilje, Hubert Hofer, Anke Hoffmann, Finbarr G Horgan, Elisabeth Hornung, Roland Horvath, Kristoffer Hylander, Paola Isaacs-Cubides, Victoria Kemp, Hiroaki Ishida, Masahiro Ishitani, Carmen T Jacobs, Víctor J Jaramillo, Birgit Jauker, F Jimenez Hernandez, McKenzie F Johnson, Virat Jolli, Mats Jonsell, S Nur Juliani, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Thomas S Jung, Vena Kapoor, Heike Kappes, Vassiliki Kati, Eric Katovai, Klaus Kellner, Michael Kessler, Kathryn R Kirby, Andrew M Kittle, Mairi E Knight, Callum D Martin, Eva Knop, Florian Kohler, Matti Koivula, Annette Kolb, Mouhamadou Kone, Adam Korosi, Jochen Krauss, Ajith Kumar, Raman Kumar, David J Kurz, Yuan Pan, Alex S Kutt, Thibault Lachat, Victoria Lantschner, Francisco Lara, Jesse R Lasky, Steven C Latta, William F Laurance, Patrick Lavelle, Violette Le Feon, Gretchen LeBuhn, Gwilym D Pask-Hale, Jean-Philippe Legare, Valerie Lehouck, Maria V Lencinas, Pia E Lentini, Susan G Letcher, Qi Li, Simon A Litchwark, Nick A Littlewood, Yunhui Liu, Nancy Lo-man-Hung, Edwin L Pynegar, Carlos A Lopez-Quintero, Mounir Louhaichi, Gabor L Lovei, Manuel Esteban Lucas-Borja, Victor H Luja, Matthew S Luskin, M Cristina MacSwiney G, Kaoru Maeto, Tibor Magura, Neil Aldrin Mallari, Alexandra N Robinson, Louise A Malone, Patrick K Malonza, Jagoba Malumbres-Olarte, Salvador Mandujano, Inger E Maren, Erika Marin-Spiotta, Charles J Marsh, E J P Marshall, Eliana Martinez, Guillermo Martinez Pastur, Samantha L L Hill, Katia Sanchez-Ortiz, David Moreno Mateos, Margaret M Mayfield, Vicente Mazimpaka, Jennifer L McCarthy, Kyle P McCarthy, Quinn S McFrederick, Sean McNamara, Nagore G Medina, Rafael Medina, Jose L Mena, Rebecca A Senior, Estefania Mico, Grzegorz Mikusinski, Jeffrey C Milder, James R Miller, Daniel R Miranda-Esquivel, Melinda L Moir, Carolina L Morales, Mary N Muchane, Muchai Muchane, Sonja Mudri-Stojnic, Benno I Simmons, A Nur Munira, Antonio Muonz-Alonso, B F Munyekenye, Robin Naidoo, A Naithani, Michiko Nakagawa, Akihiro Nakamura, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Shoji Naoe, Guiomar Nates-Parra, Hannah J White, Dario A Navarrete Gutierrez, Luis Navarro-Iriarte, Paul K Ndang'ang'a, Eike L Neuschulz, Jacqueline T Ngai, Violaine Nicolas, Sven G Nilsson, Norbertas Noreika, Olivia Norfolk, Jorge Ari Noriega, Hanbin Zhang, David A Norton, Nicole M Noske, A Justin Nowakowski, Catherine Numa, Niall O'Dea, Patrick J O'Farrell, William Oduro, Sabine Oertli, Caleb Ofori-Boateng, Christopher Omamoke Oke, Job Aben, Vicencio Oostra, Lynne M Osgathorpe, Samuel Eduardo Otavo, Navendu V Page, Juan Paritsis, Alejandro Parra-H, Luke Parry, Guy Pe'er, Peter B Pearman, Nicolas Pelegrin, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Raphael Pelissier, Carlos A Peres, Pablo L Peri, Anna S Persson, Theodora Petanidou, Marcell K Peters, Rohan S Pethiyagoda, Ben Phalan, T Keith Philips, Finn C Pillsbury, Gilbert B Adum, Jimmy Pincheira-Ulbrich, Eduardo Pineda, Joan Pino, Jaime Pizarro-Araya, A J Plumptre, Santiago L Poggio, Natalia Politi, Pere Pons, Katja Poveda, Eileen F Power, Virginia Aguilar-Barquero, Steven J Presley, Vania Proenca, Marino Quaranta, Carolina Quintero, Romina Rader, B R Ramesh, Martha P Ramirez-Pinilla, Jai Ranganathan, Claus Rasmussen, Nicola A Redpath-Downing, Marcelo A Aizen, J Leighton Reid, Yana T Reis, Jose M Rey Benayas, Juan Carlos Rey-Velasco, Chevonne Reynolds, Danilo Bandini Ribeiro, Miriam H Richards, Barbara A Richardson, Michael J Richardson, Rodrigo Macip Rios, Igor Lysenko, Belen Albertos, Richard Robinson, Carolina A Robles, Jorg Rombke, Luz Piedad Romero-Duque, Matthias Ros, Loreta Rosselli, Stephen J Rossiter, Dana S Roth, T'ai H Roulston, Laurent Rousseau, E L Alcala, Andre V Rubio, Jean-Claude Ruel, Jonathan P Sadler, Szabolcs Safian, Romeo A Saldana-Vazquez, Katerina Sam, Ulrika Samnegard, Joana Santana, Xavier Santos, Jade Savage, Maria del Mar Alguacil, Nancy A Schellhorn, Menno Schilthuizen, Ute Schmiedel, Christine B Schmitt, Nicole L Schon, Christof Schuepp, Katharina Schumann, Oliver Schweiger, Dawn M Scott, Kenneth A Scott, Audrey Alignier, Jodi L Sedlock, Steven S Seefeldt, Ghazala Shahabuddin, Graeme Shannon, Douglas Sheil, Frederick H Sheldon, Eyal Shochat, Stefan J Siebert, Fernando A B Silva, Javier A Simonetti, Marc Ancrenaz, Eleanor M Slade, Jo Smith, Allan H Smith-Pardo, Navjot S Sodhi, Eduardo J Somarriba, Ramon A Sosa, Grimaldo Soto Quiroga, Martin-Hugues St-Laurent, Brian M Starzomski, Constanti Stefanescu, Alan N Andersen, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Philip C Stouffer, Jane C Stout, Ayron M Strauch, Matthew J Struebig, Zhimin Su, Marcela Suarez-Rubio, Shinji Sugiura, Keith S Summerville, Yik-Hei Sung, Enrique Arbelaez-Cortes, Hari Sutrisno, Jens-Christian Svenning, Tiit Teder, Caragh G Threlfall, Anu Tiitsaar, Jacqui H Todd, Rebecca K Tonietto, Ignasi Torre, Bela Tothmeresz, Teja Tscharntke, Inge Armbrecht, Edgar C Turner, Jason M Tylianakis, Marcio Uehara-Prado, Nicolas Urbina-Cardona, Denis Vallan, Adam J Vanbergen, Heraldo L Vasconcelos, Kiril Vassilev, Hans A F Verboven, Maria Joao Verdasca, Victor Arroyo-Rodriguez, Jose R Verdu, Carlos H Vergara, Pablo M Vergara, Jort Verhulst, Massimiliano Virgilio, Lien Van Vu, Edward M Waite, Tony R Walker, Hua-Feng Wang, Yanping Wang, Tom Aumann, James I Watling, Britta Weller, Konstans Wells, Catrin Westphal, Edward D Wiafe, Christopher D Williams, Michael R Willig, John C Z Woinarski, Jan H D Wolf, Volkmar Wolters, Adriana De Palma, Jan C Axmacher, Ben A Woodcock, Jihua Wu, Joseph M Wunderle, Yuichi Yamaura, Satoko Yoshikura, Douglas W Yu, Andrey S Zaitsev, Juliane Zeidler, Fasheng Zou, Ben Collen, Badrul Azhar, Rob M Ewers, Georgina M Mace, Drew W Purves, Jorn P W Scharlemann, Andy Purvis, Adrian B Azpiroz, Lander Baeten, Adama Bakayoko, Andras Baldi, John E Banks, Sharad K Baral, Jos Barlow, Barbara I P Barratt, Helen R P Phillips, Lurdes Barrico, Paola Bartolommei, Diane M Barton, Yves Basset, Peter Batary, Adam J Bates, Bruno Baur, Erin M Bayne, Pedro Beja, Suzan Benedick, Tamera I Alhusseini, Ake Berg, Henry Bernard, Nicholas J Berry, Dinesh Bhatt, Jake E Bicknell, Jochen H Bihn, Robin J Blake, Kadiri S Bobo, Roberto Bocon, Teun Boekhout, Felicity E Bedford, Katrin Bohning-Gaese, Kevin J Bonham, Paulo A V Borges, Sergio H Borges, Celine Boutin, Jeremy Bouyer, Cibele Bragagnolo, Jodi S Brandt, Francis Q Brearley, Isabel Brito, Dominic J Bennett, Vicenc Bros, Jorg Brunet, Grzegorz Buczkowski, Christopher M Buddle, Rob Bugter, Erika Buscardo, Jorn Buse, Jimmy Cabra-Garcia, Nilton C Caceres, Nicolette L Cagle

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Abstract

The PREDICTS project - Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems - 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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)145-188
JournalEcology and Evolution
Volume7
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 15 - Life on Land
    SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

  • Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)

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