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Foraging preferences of hummingbirds on artificial and natural flowers; 2011-...
In plantpollinator networks, the floral morphology of food plants is an important determinant of the interaction niche of pollinators. Studies on foraging preferences of... -
Plant Pathology
The dataset tells about the evolution, spread and community changes in plant pathogens, which are a major component of ecosystems and are a potential threat to food security.... -
NTFP-substitutes of wild woody food species in two study villages (in study s...
Non-timber forest product (NTFP)-providing plant species contribute significantly to local livelihoods in West African savannas. The shortfall of NTFPs can therefore severely... -
Substitutes for three important NTFP species in Benin (Parkia biglobosa, Adan...
In this study, we identified dietary substitutes for the three socio-economically most important NTFP species in Northern Benin, Vitellaria paradoxa, Parkia biglobosa, and... -
Risk assessment of the impact of present land use and environmental factors o...
Useful woody species contribute enormously to maintain livelihoods in rural areas of West Africa and are strongly influenced by environmental conditions and human activities. In... -
Risk assessment of the impact of future land use and future climate change on...
Land use and climate changes predicted for the 21rst century pose high risks for ecosystems and the services they provide. They represent also serious hazards for plant... -
Ecological and structural characterisation of degradation states of Burkina F...
Data set consists of 72 phytosociological relevés, 377 dendrometrical relevés and 754 regeneration relevés recorded in Pama faunal reserve and its related agrosystems, following... -
Ellobioidea
Due to their age, limited ability of dispersal and soft body, gastropods represent ideal model organisms to test the influence of past climatic and/or environmental changes on... -
Climate change and model selection
The aim of the project is to get a global pattern of the influence of climate change in biological diversification. For that, phylogenetic information of taxa worldwide... -
Palaeontology of Reef Terraces
During the interglacial periods in the Pleistocene to Holocene coral reefs proliferated in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. In the interceding glacial periods however, coral reefs... -
CIESIN/CIAT: Population Density Grid, v3 (GPWv3) (1990, 2000, 2010) for UNDES...
The population density maps presented here for the UNDESERT study areas in Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger and Senegal for 1990, 2000 and 2010 were produced by the Columbia... -
DEM and Slope of UNDESERT countries Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger and Senegal (S...
On June 29, 2009, NASA and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of Japan released a Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM) to users worldwide at no charge as a... -
NEO NDVI time series, Westafrica, September 2000 to September 2014
NEO NASA Earth Observations, NDVI 16 day Terra MODIS, September 2000 to September 2014 -
Map of erodibility processed for erosion risk assessment of Atacora mountain ...
The dataset is a map in tif format. The erodibility map was generated by overlaying the slope layer and the lithofacies layer. The resulting map was generated by using... -
Phylogeny of European Pectinidae and comparison of their faunal province asse...
Phylogeny: A manageable data set of 18 species and 4 DNA marker, 2 mitochondrial marker (12S, 16S,) and 2 nuclear marker (H3, 28S), is used to reconstruct the phylogeny of... -
Maps of lithofacies processed for erosion risk assessment of Atacora mountain...
The dataset is a map in tif format, generated from pedogeological map of Atacora mountain. The lithofacies map identify the different types of rock or sediment/soil surface on... -
Plant Diversification Patterns in the Indomalesian, Australasian and Pacific ...
The project deals with the diversification of three (angiosperm) plant genera (Aglaia, Dysoxylum, Hoya) in the Indomalesian, Australasian and Pacific islands region, and... -
Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Cedreleae (Cedrela, Toona) from Paleocene to Pli...
Our study objective is the evolutionary history of the neotropical Meliaceae genus Cedrela (c. 18 species), and the sister clade (Toona) which today is restricted to tropical... -
Phylogenetic diversification and climate change in the Cenozoic
The ability of lineages to adapt to changing environmental conditions crucially depends on changes of the species' ecological niche, but little is known about the triggers and... -
Fossils of Vitacea in Siberia
Climate proxy Fossil seeds of Vitaceae from Oligocene to Pliocene from Western, Eastern Siberia and Russian Far East Temporal coverage: Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene