The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts

Lawrence N. Hudson (1) , Tim Newbold (2, 3) , Sara Contu (1) , Samantha L.L. Hill (1, 2) , Igor Lysenko (4) , Adriana de Palma (1, 4) , Helen R.P. Phillips (1, 4) , Rebecca A. Senior (2) , Dominic J. Bennett (4) , Hollie Booth (2, 5) , Argyrios Choimes (1, 4) , David L.P. Correia (1) , Julie Day (4) , Susy Echeverria-Londono (1, 4) , Morgan Garon (4) , Michelle L.K. Harrison (4) , Daniel J. Ingram (6) , Martin Jung (7) , Victoria Kemp (4) , Lucinda Kirkpatrick (8) , Callum D. Martin (4) , Yuan Pan (9) , Hannah J. White (10) , Job Aben (11) , Stefan Abrahamczyk (12) , Gilbert B. Adum (13, 14) , Virginia Aguilar-Barquero (15) , Marcelo A. Aizen (16) , Marc Ancrenaz (17) , Enrique Arbelaez-Cortes (18, 19) , Inge Armbrecht (20) , Badrul Azhar (21, 22) , Adrian B. Azpiroz (23) , Lander Baeten (24, 25) , András Báldi (26) , John E. Banks (27) , Jos Barlow (28, 29) , Péter Batary (30) , Adam J. Bates (31) , Erin M. Bayne (32) , Pedro Beja (33) , Ake Berg (34) , Nicholas J. Berry (35) , Jake E. Bicknell (36, 37) , Jochen H. Bihn (38) , Katrin Böhning-Gaese (39, 40) , Teun Boekhout (41) , Céline Boutin (42) , Jérémy Bouyer (43) , Francis Q. Brearley (44) , Isabel Brito (45) , Jorg Brunet (46) , Grzegorz Buczkowski (47) , Erika Buscardo (48, 49, 50) , Jimmy Cabra-Garcia (51) , Maria Calvino-Cancela (52) , Sydney A. Cameron (53) , Eliana M. Cancello (54) , Tiago F. Carrijo (54) , Anelena Carvalho (55) , Helena Castro (56) , Alejandro A. Castro-Luna (57) , Rolando Cerda (58) , Alexis Cerezo (59) , Matthieu Chauvat (60) , Frank M. Clarke (61) , Daniel F. R. Cleary (62) , Stuart P. Connop (63) , Biagio d'Aniello (64) , Pedro Giovani da Silva (65) , Ben Darvill (66) , Jens Dauber (67) , Alain Dejean (68, 69) , Tim Diekötter (70, 71, 72) , Yamileth Dominguez-Haydar (73) , Carsten F. Dormann (74) , Bertrand Dumont (75) , Simon G. Dures (4, 76) , Mats Dynesius (77) , Lars Edenius (78) , Zoltan Eleki (79) , Martin H. Entling (80) , Nina Farwig (81) , Tom M. Fayle (4, 82, 83) , Antonio Felicioli (84) , Annika M. Felton (46) , Gentile Francesco Ficetola (85) , Bruno K. C. Filgueiras (86) , Steven J. Fonte (87) , Lauchlan H. Fraser (88) , Daisuke Fukuda (89) , Dario Furlani (90) , Jörg U. Ganzhorn (91) , Jenni G. Garden (92, 93) , Carla Gheler-Costa (94) , Paolo Giordani (95) , Simonetta Giordano (96) , Marco S. Gottschalk (97) , Dave Goulson (6) , Violette Le Feon (98)

1 Natural History Museum [Oslo]
2 UNEP-WCMC - UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
3 Computational Ecology and Environmental Science
4 Imperial College London
5 Africa Regional Office
6 School of Life Sciences
7 Center Macroecology, Evolution and Climate
8 University of Stirling
9 Department of Animal and Plant Sciences [Sheffield]
10 School of Biological Sciences [Belfast]
11 Evolutionary Ecology Group
12 Nees Institut for Plant Biodiversity
13 Department of Wildlife and Range Management
14 Save the frogs! Ghana
15 Escuela de Biologia
16 INIBIOMA-CONICET - Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente [Bariloche]
17 Kinabatangan Orang-utan Conservation Program
18 Facultad de Ciencias Museo de Zoologia
19 Coleccion de Tejidos
20 Department of Biology
21 Institute of Bioscience - Biodiversity Unit
22 Faculty of Forestry
23 Laboratorio de Genetica de la Conservacion
24 Department of Forest and Water Management, Forest & Nature Lab
25 Department of Biology, Terrestrial Ecology Unit
26 MTA Centre for Ecological Research
27 University of Washington
28 Lancaster Environment Centre
29 MPEG - Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi [Belém, Brésil]
30 Agroecology
31 University of Birmingham [Birmingham]
32 Department of Biological Sciences, biological Sciences Centre
33 Centro de Investigaçao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos
34 The Swedish Biodiversity Centre
35 School of Geosciences [Edinburgh]
36 SAC - School of Anthropology and Conservation [University of Kent]
37 Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development
38 Department of Animal Ecology
39 SBiK-F - Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre
40 Institute for Ecology, Evolution & Diversity, Biologicum
41 CBS-KNAW Fungal Biodiversity Centre
42 Environment Canada, Science & Technology Branch
43 UMR CMAEE - Contrôle des maladies animales exotiques et émergentes
44 School of Science and the Environment
45 University of Évora [Portugal]
46 Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre
47 Department of Entomology
48 Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Departamento de Ciencias da Vida
49 Escritorio Central do LBA
50 School of Natural Sciences, Department of Botany
51 Instituto de Biociencias, Departamento de Zoologia
52 Faculty of Sciences, Department of Ecology and Animal Biology
53 Department of Entomology
54 Museu de Zoologia
55 INPA - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia = National Institute of Amazonian Research
56 Centre for Functional ecology
57 Instituto de Biotecnologia y Ecologia Aplicada
58 Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center
59 Faculty of Agronomy, Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems
60 ECODIV - Étude et compréhension de la biodiversité
61 University of Aberdeen
62 Department of Biology
63 Sustainability Research Institute
64 Department of Biology
65 Programa de Pos-graduaçao em Ecologia
66 BTO - British Trust for Ornithology
67 Thünen Institute of Biodiversity
68 ECOFOG - Ecologie des forêts de Guyane
69 LEFE - Laboratoire Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement
70 Institute for Nature and Resource Conservation, Department of Landscape Ecology
71 Department of Biology, Nature Conservation
72 Institute of Integrative Biology
73 Programa de Biologia
74 Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis
75 UMRH - Unité Mixte de Recherche sur les Herbivores - UMR 1213
76 Institute of Zoology
77 Department of Ecology and Environmental Science [Umeå]
78 Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental Studies
79 Centre for Ecological Research [Budapest]
80 Institute of Environmental Sciences [Landau]
81 Department of Ecology-Conservation Ecology, Faculty of Biology
82 Faculty of Science, Institute of Entomology, Biology centre of Academy of Sciences
83 Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation
84 Dipartimento di Scienze Veterinarie
85 LECA - Laboratoire d'Ecologie Alpine
86 Programa de Pos-Graduaçao em Biologia Animal
87 Department of Plant Sciences
88 Department of Natural Resource Sciences
89 IDA Consultants Inc.
90 Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
91 Biocentre Grindel
92 Seed Consulting Services
93 School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management
94 Ecologia aplicada/Applied Ecology
95 DISTAV
96 Dipartimento di Biologia
97 UFPel - Universidade Federal de Pelotas = Federal University of Pelotas
98 AE - Abeilles et Environnement

Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global databases of species' threat status or population time series are dominated by charismatic species. The collation of datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents, and that support computation of a range of biodiversity indicators, is necessary to enable better understanding of historical declines and to project - and avert - future declines. We describe and assess a new database of more than 1.6 million samples from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database contains measurements taken in 208 (of 814) ecoregions, 13 (of 14) biomes, 25 (of 35) biodiversity hotspots and 16 (of 17) megadiverse countries. The database contains more than 1% of the total number of all species described, and more than 1% of the described species within many taxonomic groups - including flowering plants, gymnosperms, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, beetles, lepidopterans and hymenopterans. The dataset, which is still being added to, is therefore already considerably larger and more representative than those used by previous quantitative models of biodiversity trends and responses. The database is being assembled as part of the PREDICTS project (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems - ). We make site-level summary data available alongside this article. The full database will be publicly available in 2015.

Mots clés: Data sharing; Global change; Habitat destruction; Land use

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Lawrence N. Hudson, Tim Newbold, Sara Contu, Samantha L.L. Hill, Igor Lysenko, et al.. The PREDICTS database: a global database of how local terrestrial biodiversity responds to human impacts. Ecology and Evolution, 2014, 4 (24), pp.4701-4735. ⟨10.1002/ece3.1303⟩. ⟨hal-01204216⟩