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Future climate projections
Differences in GCMs cause high uncertainty for future climate projections in Africa, especially considering the precipitation signal. The data set consists of 19 bioclimatic... -
Ecological genomics Radix balthica
To determine the adative potential in the face of climate change of the common pond snail, Radix balthica, mainly towards temperature, we use different approaches. We record... -
Species distribution modelling of freshwater invertebrates
Global climate change is expected to alter species present distributions, thus a shift of species distributions towards higher latitudes and altitudes is predicted. The response... -
Station-based long term data on epibenthic species abundance
Our main aim is the time-lined correlation of marine species abundance data of the Dogger Bank (North Sea)with environmental variables like temperature, salinity, current... -
Socio-economic and ethnobotanical data of wooden tree species of northern Ben...
The dataset is the outcome of a household survey conducted in two villages in northern Benin, West Africa. It contains, firstly, information about multi-purpose useful plant... -
Microhabitat analysis in small waterbodies
This dataset describes microstratification and biodiversity in a cold-temperate, macrophyte-dominated waterbody (for list of abiotic/biotic parameters see below). Hourly data of... -
Interactive effects of a fungicide/insecticide and temperature on aquatic spe...
This dataset provides data about ecotoxicological effects of the fungicide pyrimethanil and the insecticide lambda-cyhalothrin on native and invasive aquatic primary producers,... -
Na+ bioenergetics and homeostasis in methanogenic archaea
Archaea represent the third, and last discovered, domain of life. Our model organisms are Methanosarcina mazei and Methanosarcina acetivorans, which are methanogens belonging to... -
Dated phylogeny of Bovidae / Mammalia
Densly dated phylogeny of the mammalian family BOVIDAE, based on cytb sequences. Most species rich family tree of this group. Geographical coverage: Africa, Asia, Europe;... -
North Sea Epifauna
Geographical coverage: Six "Boxes" of 10x10 nautical miles; 24 ICES rectangles of 30x30 nautical miles from 53.5 to 56 degree N and 3 to 8 degree E; Temporal coverage: every... -
Time slice experiments every 500 years from the early Holocene (12k) until th...
Each experiment is integrated for 100 years, of which the last 20 were used in the statistics. -
Photosynthetic Capacity Measurements of Betula pendula, Fagus sylvatica, Quer...
For photosynthetic capacity we used a Licor 6400 to derive A-Ci curves (curves of the response of photosynthetic rate to changes in leaf internal CO2 concentration) following... -
West African Vegetation Database
Vegetation database with more than 5000 releves (120000 single observations), (http://westafricanvegetation.senckenberg.de/menu/home.aspx). Most releves georeferenced. -
Species list of the réserve sylvo-pastorale et partielle de la faune du Sahe...
A list of all 354 species from the réserve sylvo-pastorale et partielle de la faune du Sahel with family and life form information. Made available in digital form in the course... -
Magnoliophyta of the partial faunal reserve of Pama, Burkina Faso, 2008
A list of all 450 species of Magnoliophyta with family and life form information based surveys and herbarium data. The list has been published in Check List 4: 251-266. Digital... -
Species list of the reserve sylvo-pastorale et partielle de la faune du Sahel...
A list of all 354 species from the reserve sylvo-pastorale et partielle de la faune du Sahel with family and life form information. Made available in digital form in the course... -
Patterns of plant functional traits in the biogeography of West African grass...
Species distributions modelled with Maxent and aggregated for functional groups counting for each grid cell all species above the MSST threshold, then divided by all species... -
SeSam West Africa Collection Data
Currently c. 15000 herbarium specimens digitized in SeSam (http://sesam.senckenberg.de/), the more recent ones usually with GPS coordinates. -
West African Plants Database
A photo database of West African Plants with a multientry determination key based on 18 simple characters. The photodatabase is very useful for determination of plants in West... -
Sequenced Genomes
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