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

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 – www.predicts.org.uk). We make site-level summary data available alongside this article. The full database will be publicly available in 2015.

Letter, Cheraw, SC, to Ruth, 1941 June 10

This is a letter from Sara Baker to Ruth at the Cheraw Library about overdue books.

Morgan Is./St. Helena Sound S065

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources provides maps to recreational and state shellfish grounds, available to the public for recreational harvesting or to commercial harvest. This map shows the location of Morgan Is./St. Helena Sound S065 Recreational Shellfish Ground in Beaufort County.

Morgan River S124

The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources provides maps to recreational and state shellfish grounds, available to the public for recreational harvesting or to commercial harvest. This map shows the location of Morgan River S124 Recreational Shellfish Ground in Beaufort County.

University Symphonic Band and University Choir, February 12, 1941

Concert program for University Symphonic Band and University Choir, February 12, 1941

Barry Lieberman & Friends, Maria Larionoff and Robin McCabe, May 6, 2012

Concert program for Barry Lieberman & Friends present Guest Artists, May 6, 2012

O Plano dos centenários - As escolas primárias (1941-1956)

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em História da Arte Contemporânea

Portugueses na Wehrmacht. Os Voluntários da Divisão Azul (1941-1944)

Dissertação apresentada para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em História Contemporânea

Algunos resultados de las anillaciones de Guanay (Phalacrocorax bougainvillii L.) efectuados durante 1939-1941 y 1949-1953

Proporciona información sobre el guanay, ave guanera, que es estudiado para determinar su proceso de anidación y la influencia que tiene en la producción del guano en todo el litoral peruano. Realizan una técnica de marcación de ejemplares para hacerles seguimiento en el periodo de los años 1939 a 1953.

Du duel : mémoire à la Cour de cassation et plaidoiries, avec le réquisitoire de M. le procureur général Dupin, et l'arrêt de la Cour dans l'affaire des sieurs Gilbert, Déroy et Robin, plaidée en l'audience solennelle du 2 février 1839 / par M. Mirabel Chambaud,...

Comprend : Réquisitoire de M. le procureur général Dupin [2 février 1839]

Verdun, 23/6/20, discours de M. Lefèvre [ministre de la guerre] au cimetière militaire [présence de MM. Pétain, Poincaré, Maginot et du maire de Verdun, Edmond Robin] : [photographie de presse] / [Agence Rol]

Référence bibliographique : Rol, 59820