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

Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha Hill, Igor Lysenko, Adriana De Palma, Helen Phillips, Tamera Alhusseini, Felicity Bedford, Dominic Bennett, Hollie Booth, Victoria Burton, Charlotte Chng, Argyrios Choimes, David L. P. Correia, Julie Day, Susy Echeverria-Londono, Susan Emerson, Di Gao, Morgan Garon, Michelle Harrison, Daniel Ingram, Martin Jung, Victoria Kemp, Lucinda Kirkpatrick, Callum D. Martin, Yuan Pan, Gwilym Pask-Hale, Edwin Pynegar, Alexandra Robinson, Katia Sanchez-Ortiz, Rebecca Senior, Benno Simmons, Hannah White, Hanbin Zhang, Job Aben, Stefan Abrahamczyk, Gilbert Adum, Virginia Aguilar-Barquero, Marcelo Aizen, Belén Albertos, E. Alcala, Maria del Mar Alguacil, Audrey Alignier, Marc Ancrenaz, Alan Andersen, Enrique Arbeláez-Cortés, Inge Armbrecht, Víctor Arroyo-Rodríguez, Tom Aumann, Jan Axmacher, Badrul Azhar, Adrián Azpiroz, Lander Baeten, Adama Bakayoko, András Báldi, John Banks, Sharad Baral, Jos Barlow, Barbara Barratt, Lurdes Barrico, Paola Bartolommei, Diane Barton, Yves Basset, Peter Batáry, Adam Bates, Mounir Louhaichi, Eric Katovai, Klaus Kellner, Michael Kessler, Kathryn R Kirby, Mairi E Knight, Eva Knop, Matti Koivula, Annette Kolb, Mouhamadou Kone, adam Korosi, Jochen Krauss, Steven J. Fonte, Anne Fournier, Robert E Fowler, Markus Franzen, Lauchlan H Fraser, Gabriella M. Fredriksson, Geraldo B Freire Jr, Tiago L. M. Frizzo, Dario Furlani, Rene Gaigher, Jorg U Ganzhorn, Karla P. Garcia, Juan C. Garcia R, Jenni G. Garden, Ricardo Garilleti, Bao-Ming Ge, Benoit Gendreau-Berthiaume, Philippa J. Gerard J. Gerard, Carla Gheler-Costa, Benjamin Gilbert, Paolo Giordani, Simonetta Giordano, Carly Golodets, Laurens G. L. Gomes, Rachelle K. Gould, Dave Goulson, Laurent Granjon, Ingo Grass, Claudia L. Gray, James Grogan, Moises Guardiola, Nihara R Gunawardene, Alvaro G Gutierrez, Doris L Gutierrez Lamus, Daniela H Haarmeyer, Mick E Hanley, Nor R Hashim, Shombe N. Hassan, Richard G. Hatfield, Joseph E. Hawes, Matt W Hayward. (31/12/2017). The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems) project. Ecology and Evolution, 7, pp. 145-188.

Abstract

The PREDICTS project—Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)—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 biodiversit