Data

This page serves as a repository to link publicly available data streams that are of interest to students and the larger analytically efforts of the class. Students, please treat this as a collaborative resource. If you bring a dataset to the class, please email the link/citation (with DOI or hyperlink) to Mack so he can add it here.

Databases, Data Packages, and Data Papers

Trait Data Packages

FishLife

rfishbase

Trait Databases

A database of lotic invertebrate traits for North America

FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States

Trait Data Papers

Hopper, Garrett W., Jamie R. Bucholz, Traci P. DuBose, Kaelyn J. Fogelman, Sean M. Keogh, Megan E. Kubala, Matthew B. Lodato, et al. 2023. “A Trait Dataset for Freshwater Mussels of the United States of America.” Scientific Data 10 (1): 745.

Twardochleb, Laura, Ethan Hiltner, Matthew Pyne, and Phoebe Zarnetske. 2021. “Freshwater Insects CONUS: A Database of Freshwater Insect Occurrences and Traits for the Contiguous United States.” Global Ecology and Biogeography: A Journal of Macroecology 30 (4): 826–41.

Viera, Nicole K.M., N. LeRoy Poff, Daren M. Carlisle, Stephen R Moulton II, Marci L. Koski, and Boris C. Kondratieff. 2006. “A Database of Lotic Invertebrate Traits for North America.”. U.S. Geological Survey Data Series.