Published August 10, 2023
| Version v1
Dataset
Open
Project BioDyn: compilation of long-term (>20yrs) community timeseries data from terrestrial and freshwater realms
Authors/Creators
- 1. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Seestrasse 79, Kastanienbaum, 6047 Switzerland; Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental studies, University of Zurich; Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
- 2. Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Seestrasse 79, Kastanienbaum, 6047 Switzerland
- 3. Data Analytics Program, Denison University; Granville, Ohio, 43023 USA
- 4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Halle-Jena-Leipzig, 04103 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Computer Science, Martin Luther University-Halle Wittenberg; 06099 Halle (Saale), Germany
- 5. Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology; Überlandstrasse 133, Dübendorf, 8600 Switzerland
- 6. Department of Biology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada K7L 3N6
- 7. Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, Dübendorf, 8600 Switzerland; WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland; Department of Zoology, Government (defunct) post-graduate college, Dera Ghazi Khan, 32200 Pakistan
- 8. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland; Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich; Zurich, Switzerland
- 9. Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Seestrasse 79, Kastanienbaum, 6047 Switzerland; Aquatic Ecology and Evolution, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
- 10. WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland; Climate Change, Extremes and Natural Hazards in Alpine Regions Research Center CERC, 7260 Davos Dorf, Switzerland
- 11. Department of Aquatic Ecology, Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Überlandstrasse 133, Dübendorf, 8600 Switzerland
- 12. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Description
The given dataset was compiled for n=2668 communities (242 study IDs in total, see the metadata file) across terrestrial and freshwater realms (terrestrial birds: n=1259, invertebrates: n=124, plants: n=435, and mammals: n=136, freshwater fish: n=587, invertebrates: n=112, and phytoplankton: n=15). Community timeseries include species-level abundance (or biomass in 15% of cases) and a minimum of 20 years sampled. We have compiled this data and used it for the first time to analyze how community stability and its drivers (species richness, overall synchrony, and tail-dependent synchrony) would differ across realms.
Notes
The authors thank David Vasseur for getting the requested data from a published article with no open data. We thank the ETH Board for funding through the Blue-Green Biodiversity (BGB) Initiative 2020, the Seehausen/Eawag lab and European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 787638) granted to Catherine H. Graham. We would like to thank the large number of scientists and volunteers that contributed to long-term data collection, and the data providers who chose to openly publish and share their datasets for continued analysis.