My Tutorials
- Minimum Spanning Trees Made Easy:
- 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