Resources

My Tutorials

• Minimum Spanning Trees Made Easy:
  • Step 1: Making a MST in Arlequin and preparing input files for Gephi
  • Step 2: A video tutorial on visualizing MSTs in Gephi
• Clip and convert ESRI raster grids to ASCII file format for MAXENT using R

Other Tutorials

• Species distribution modeling with R by Robert J. Hijmans and Jane Elith
• Niche Modeling in MAXENT
• Downscaling climate data using the “Delta Method”
• Basic statistics in R

Global Climate Databases

• Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals – Kansas Geological Survey, Marine environmental data mashup, half degree spatial resolution
• Bio-ORACLE – Ocean Rasters for Analysis of Climate and Environment, 5 arc-minute (~9 km) spatial resolution
• Global Precipitation Climatologies – JISAO, University of Washington, 2.5 degree spatial resolution
• MARSPEC – Ocean Climate Layers for Marine Spatial Ecology, 30 arc-second (~1 km) spatial resolution
• paleo-MARSPEC – Gridded ocean climate layers for the Mid-Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum, 5 arc-minutes (~9 km) spatial resolution
• WorldClim – Terrestrial Global Climate Layers, 30 arc-second (~1 km) spatial resolution

Biodiversity Databases

• AlgaeBase – Database of seaweeds and other algae
• Encyclopedia of Life – Global access to knowledge about life on Earth
• FishBase – A Global Information System on Fishes
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) – Free and open access to biodiversity data from museum collections
• Hexacorallians of the World – Sea anemones, corals, and their allies
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) – Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world
• The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) – Comprehensive resource of marine species, habitats, and threats in the British Isles.
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) – Marine species datasets from all of the world’s oceans
• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) – Authoritative list of names of marine species

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