Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

Decreases in beetle body size linked to climate change and warming temperatures

(2018) Michelle Tseng et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The Plant Phenology Ontology: A New Informatics Resource for Large-Scale Integration of Plant Phenology Data

(2018) Brian J. Stucky et al.   Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant spectral diversity integrates functional and phylogenetic components of biodiversity and predicts ecosystem function

(2018) Anna K. Schweiger et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions

(2017) Ethan E. Butler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Airborne laser-guided imaging spectroscopy to map forest trait diversity and guide conservation

(2017) G. P. Asner et al.   SCIENCE

Old Plants, New Tricks: Phenological Research Using Herbarium Specimens

(2017) Charles G. Willis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

(2017) Laetitia M Navarro et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Connecting Earth observation to high-throughput biodiversity data

(2017) Alex Bush et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Our path to better science in less time using open data science tools

(2017) Julia S. Stewart Lowndes et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

ISS observations offer insights into plant function

(2017) E. Natasha Stavros et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Linking Earth Observation and taxonomic, structural and functional biodiversity: Local to ecosystem perspectives

(2016) A. Lausch et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Ecological indicators to capture the effects of fishing on biodiversity and conservation status of marine ecosystems

(2016) M. Coll et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

Handbook of protocols for standardized measurement of terrestrial invertebrate functional traits

(2016) Marco Moretti et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Towards a thesaurus of plant characteristics: an ecological contribution

(2016) Eric Garnier et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes

(2016) Michael W. Holmes et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phenological sensitivity to climate across taxa and trophic levels

(2016) Stephen J. Thackeray et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity analysis in the digital era

(2016) John La Salle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Realising the potential of herbarium records for conservation biology

(2016) M. Greve et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

The importance of digitized biocollections as a source of trait data and a new VertNet resource

(2016) Robert P. Guralnick et al.   Database-The Journal of Biological Databases and Curation

The iPlant Collaborative: Cyberinfrastructure for Enabling Data to Discovery for the Life Sciences

(2016) Nirav Merchant et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Understanding Forest Health with Remote Sensing -Part I—A Review of Spectral Traits, Processes and Remote-Sensing Characteristics

(2016) Angela Lausch et al.   Remote Sensing

The plant phenology monitoring design for The National Ecological Observatory Network

(2016) Sarah C. Elmendorf et al.   Ecosphere

The flora phenotype ontology (FLOPO): tool for integrating morphological traits and phenotypes of vascular plants

(2016) Robert Hoehndorf et al.   Journal of Biomedical Semantics

The environment ontology in 2016: bridging domains with increased scope, semantic density, and interoperation

(2016) Pier Luigi Buttigieg et al.   Journal of Biomedical Semantics

TraitBank: Practical semantics for organism attribute data

(2016) Cynthia S. Parr et al.   Semantic Web

The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship

(2016) Mark D. Wilkinson et al.   Scientific Data

Ecological specialization matters: long-term trends in butterfly species richness and assemblage composition depend on multiple functional traits

(2015) Anne Eskildsen et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Ecological data sharing

(2015) William K. Michener   Ecological Informatics

Review: Development of an in situ observation network for terrestrial ecological remote sensing: the Phenological Eyes Network (PEN)

(2015) Kenlo Nishida Nasahara et al.   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Advances in remote sensing of vegetation function and traits

(2015) Rasmus Houborg et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Bridging the gap between biodiversity data and policy reporting needs: An Essential Biodiversity Variables perspective

(2015) Ilse R. Geijzendorffer et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The global spectrum of plant form and function

(2015) Sandra Díaz et al.   NATURE

Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space

(2015) Andrew K. Skidmore et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial animal tracking as an eye on life and planet

(2015) R. Kays et al.   SCIENCE

Biological and ecological traits of marine species

(2015) Mark John Costello et al.   PeerJ

Temporal patterns of avian body size reflect linear size responses to broadscale environmental change over the last 50 years

(2014) Janet L. Gardner et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Semantics in Support of Biodiversity Knowledge Discovery: An Introduction to the Biological Collections Ontology and Related Ontologies

(2014) Ramona L. Walls et al.   PLoS One

Amazonian functional diversity from forest canopy chemical assembly

(2014) G. P. Asner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Establishing macroecological trait datasets: digitalization, extrapolation, and validation of diet preferences in terrestrial mammals worldwide

(2014) Wilm Daniel Kissling et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Trait-based approaches for understanding microbial biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) Sascha Krause et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

New handbook for standardised measurement of plant functional traits worldwide

(2013) N. Pérez-Harguindeguy et al.   AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Observing changing ecological diversity in the Anthropocene

(2013) David S Schimel et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Essential Biodiversity Variables

(2013) H. M. Pereira et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Extinction of Birds Drives Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Seed Size

(2013) M. Galetti et al.   SCIENCE

Biodiversity data should be published, cited, and peer reviewed

(2013) Mark J. Costello et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science

(2012) Ramona L. Walls et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Environmental stratifications as the basis for national, European and global ecological monitoring

(2012) M.J. Metzger et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

From Caprio's lilacs to the USA National Phenology Network

(2012) Mark D Schwartz et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

TRY - a global database of plant traits

(2011) J. KATTGE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

NEON: the first continental-scale ecological observatory with airborne remote sensing of vegetation canopy biochemistry and structure

(2010) Thomas U. Kampe   Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Validation of biological collections as a source of phenological data for use in climate change studies: a case study with the orchid Ophrys sphegodes

(2010) Karen M. Robbirt et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Inland capture fisheries

(2010) R. L. Welcomme et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A generic structure for plant trait databases

(2010) Jens Kattge et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Integrating phenotype ontologies across multiple species

(2010) Christopher J Mungall et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Toward a knowledge infrastructure for traits-based ecological risk assessment

(2010) Donald J Baird et al.   Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

Body size-dependent responses of a marine fish assemblage to climate change and fishing over a century-long scale

(2009) MARTIN J. GENNER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Forage quality of savannas — Simultaneously mapping foliar protein and polyphenols for trees and grass using hyperspectral imagery

(2009) Andrew K. Skidmore et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Rebuilding Global Fisheries

(2009) B. Worm et al.   SCIENCE

Something in the way you move: dispersal pathways affect invasion success

(2009) John R.U. Wilson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A new dawn for citizen science

(2009) Jonathan Silvertown   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The mammalian phenotype ontology: enabling robust annotation and comparative analysis

(2009) Cynthia L. Smith et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Systems Biology and Medicine

Airborne spectranomics: mapping canopy chemical and taxonomic diversity in tropical forests

(2008) Gregory P Asner et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Animal trait ontology: The importance and usefulness of a unified trait vocabulary for animal species

(2008) L. M. Hughes et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL SCIENCE

Invasive species detection in Hawaiian rainforests using airborne imaging spectroscopy and LiDAR

(2008) Gregory P. Asner et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Advancing ecological research with ontologies

(2008) Joshua S. Madin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION