Paul J. Hurtado

Data Resources for Modellers

These are online resources where modelers can download (mostly ecological) data.
This is not a complete listing data repositories, so links to other similar pages are also included.

If I'm missing something, please contact me and let me know!

Thanks!
-Paul Hurtado

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Other Lists of Data Repository

• Bryan Shader's list -- Discipline specific, open access data archival services
• NCEAS "Ecological and Spatial Data Sources" list -- Worth a look!

Data Repositories

• Ecological Data Wiki
• Global Population Dynamics Database -- Hosted by the Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College London and Natural Environment Research Council.
• Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity -- For more complex ecological data.
• Dryad -- A general-purpose data repository, mostly for data associated with a broad range of scientific journals.
• ESA Data Registry -- For data sets on ecology and the environment associated with articles published by the Ecological Society of America.
• UK Environmental Change Network -- Long-term environmental monitoring and research programme.

Human Populations

• Data.Gov -- Repository of federal data (something like 90,000 data sets of various kinds), with everything from land/water use data, hurricane sandy damage, bark beetle damage by region, etc.
• Global Health Observatory Data Repository (WHO) -- Health related data for infectious diseases, chronic diseases, nutrition, etc.
• data.un.org -- Data from the United Nations
• US Census Bureau -- See, for example, the US Gazetteer, DataFerret, Easy Stats and the Data Visualization Gallery
• Infectious Disease Data from Ben Bolker -- "Data, mostly time-series of case reports, on measles and chickenpox from various regions (England and Wales, New York City, Copenhagen, Baltimore County ...) Also includes some miscellaneous geographic and demographic data that I consider to be useful. Most of these data have been manually entered from published records by various people, and are prone to errors at several levels. All data are provided as is. Feel free to e-mail me (bolker@mcmaster.ca) with questions or corrections, but use at your own risk."

Other Data Sources

• GLOS Data Portal -- Great Lakes Observing System (GLOS) central data repository. Video tour at www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8wbfiwu0aI.
• taxize R package -- Download up- and down-stream taxonomic information from various databases, including the Catalogue of Life, Global Invasive Species Database, Encyclopedia of Life, ITIS, IUCN Redlist, uBio, Phylomatic, Global Names Resolver and Index, Tropicos, Plantminer, and ThePlantList.org. See the reference manual for details.
• Avian Knowledge Network -- Data from eBird and a number of other bird-related entities.
• Midwest Avian Data Center -- a regional node of the AKN, with nice visualization tools.
• eBird.org -- Massive citizen science database of bird observations.
• US Census Bureau -- See, for example, the US Gazetteer, DataFerret, Easy Stats and the Data Visualization Gallery
• USGS North American Breeding Bird Survey -- Various USGS Analysis results, plus raw data.