Links

Zimmerman’s Lab (WSL) – modeling patterns and dynamics at the landscape scale
Thuiller’s Lab (Grenoble) – Towards eco-evolutionnary models of biodiversity
Rahbek’s Lab (Copenhagen) – Center for Macroecology
Araujo’s Lab (Madrid) - Integrative Biology and Global Change
Graham’s Lab (New York) – spatial and temporal arrangement of habitats on ecological and evolutionary patterns
Salamin’s Lab (UNIL) – phylogenetic and evolutionary modeling tools
Rasmann’s Lab (UNIL) – ecology and evolution of plant-insect interaction
LASIG (EPFL) - Laboratoire des Système d'Information Géographique
Possingham's lab (UQ) - Spatial Ecology Lab and ARC Center of Excellence for Environmental Decision
Buckley's lab (UQ and CSIRO) - Plant Ecology
Honrado's lab (CIBIO, Porto) - Plants & Traits - Functional Plant Ecology
Müller-Schärrer's lab (UNIFR) - Plant Population Biology

CRAN - The comprehensive R archive network (Swiss mirror)
Quick-R – User-friendly guide for users of statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS) who would like to transition to R
BIOMOD – R library for ensemble forecasting of species distributions
DISMO – R library for species distributon modeling (including MaxEnt)
GDM - R library for Generalized dissimilarity modeling
BIOMAPPER - A GIS-toolkit to model habitat suitability
ADE-4 – R library for analysis of ecological and environmental data
STATLIB - Data, software and news from the Statistics Community
Stockwell’s webpage –Niche modeling blog
ESRI – support for ArcGIS
GRASS and DIVA-GIS - free GIS softwares
Niklaus Zimmermann’s webpage – Tools for mapping biophysical variables
Colorbrewer - color advice for cartography
Marxan and ZONATION - softwares for spatial conservation planning (e.g. design reserve systems, assess performance of existing reserves, develop multiple-use zoning plans)

Distribution data

GBIF – Global biodiversity information facility
Biocase – Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
Flora Europea – Digital version of the Flora Europaea
Den Virtuella floran – Online access to the Atlas of North European vascular plants (Hultén & Fries 1986)
CRSF – distributions of all plants in Swizerland
CSCF – distributions of all animal in Switzerland
FloraWeb - floristic database for Germany
Sophy - - floristic database for France
Tropicos – specimens, distributons, chromosome counts, references
ArcticData - biodiversity, topography, protected areas, human impact data
Markku Savela’s webpage - photographs, common names, scientific names, distribution of mammals, insects, birds and plants

Environmental data

Worldclim – global climate layers (current – future – past / resolution 1’, 5’ 10’)
CGIAR-CSI - global climate layers, including aridity, PET and soil-water balance based on worldclim
PANGAEA –Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research
CIAT - IPCC scenarios projections downscaled using Worldclim
CliMond – Global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling
Atlas of the biosphere - Human impacts, land use, ecosystems and water resources data
European Environment agency - tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)
ENVIROCAT - Swiss Environmental Data Base
Geocat – Geographic catalogue for Switzerland
GEOSTAT – geodata from the Federal Office for Statistics
CCAFS - Downscaled layers from future climate models (GCMs) from the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security
NOAA - Reconstructed paleoclimates from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
USGS - Elevation, watershed and related variables for the globe at 1km resolution from the US Geological Survey
GLCF - Various land-cover datasets from the Global Land Cover Facility
NASA - Various atmospheric and land products from the MODIS instrument from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC - Harmonized World Soil Database
European Soil portal – Lots of soil GIS data

Biological traits

Taxonomy and Phylogeny

COOL LABS