Datasets, R Packages, GitHub

Datasets: Biodiversity & Traits

Gerstner, B.E**., P.L. Zarnetske, and P. Bills. 2023. Frugivoria: A trait database for birds and mammals exhibiting frugivory across contiguous Neotropical moist forests ver 5. Environmental Data Initiative.
https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/168e95f04d4726d31d868bfe22d749a5.

Twardochleb, L.A.**, E. Hiltner*, M. Pyne, P. Bills, and P.L. Zarnetske. 2020. Freshwater insect occurrences and traits for the contiguous United States, 2001 - 2018 ver 5. Environmental Data Initiative. https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/8238ea9bc15840844b3a023b6b6ed158

R Packages

3. Smith, A.C.*** , P.L. Zarnetske, K. Dahlin, A. Wilson, A. Latimer. 2022. CRAN. geodiv: Methods for Calculating Gradient Surface Metrics. R package version 1.0.5. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=geodiv

2. Read, Q.D.***, A. Yue, I.E. Fluck, B. Baiser, J.M. Grady***, P.L. Zarnetske, and S. Record. 2022. Ostats: O-statistics, or pairwise community-level niche overlap statistics. R package version 0.2.0. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=Ostats

1. Smith, A.C.***, A. Ballantyne, P.L. Zarnetske. 2019. disturbr: Disturbance detection and attribution in R. R package version 0.1.0. https://github.com/AnnieCooper/disturbr-public

GitHub Organizations

aquaXterra: investigating aquatic-terrestrial linkages across scales https://github.com/aquaXterra
aquaXterra aims to understand how scale affects interactions between biodiversity and ecosystem function among terrestrial and aquatic realms. Funding: Michigan State University, NASA

Repositories include:
- freshwater_insects_CONUS
- aquaxterra

bioXgeo: Biodiversity X Geodiversity https://github.com/bioXgeo
Connecting Biodiversity and Geodiversity Across Scales with Remote Sensing. Funding: NASA

Repositories include:

IBEEM-MSU: IBEEM: The Institute for Biodiversity, Ecology, Evolution, and Macrosystems at Michigan State University https://github.com/IBEEM-MSU
IBEEM is interdisciplinary, and leverages Macrosystems Science, Ecology, and Evolution to understand & predict changes to Biodiversity. Funding: MSU Strategic Partnership Grant

Repositories include:
- IBEEM_workflow
- ibeem_variability

kbs-lter: Kellogg Biological Station Long Term Ecological Research (KBS LTER) https://github.com/kbs-lter
KBS-LTER repositories include the Rainfall Exclusion eXperiment (REX) analysis

Repositories include:
- rex-data
- rex-analysis

NEON-biodiversity: National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) Biodiversity Research https://github.com/NEON-biodiversity
Research on biodiversity and community ecology and their biotic and abiotic drivers, across the National Ecological Observatory Network (funding: NSF)

Repositories include:

SpaCE-Lab-MSU: SpaCE Lab: Spatial and Community Ecology Lab @ Michigan State University github.com/SpaCE-Lab-MSU
The lab aims to understand and predict how biodiversity responds to climate change and land use changes across scales.

Repositories include:
- warmXtrophic
- avian-meta-network
- Avian-Interaction-Database
- OTCMetaAnalysis
- r_guide
- MSUGradSpatialEcology - Graduate Spatial Ecology (IBIO870) Labs; website = https://space-lab-msu.github.io/MSUGradSpatialEcology/

srm-ecology: Ecological impacts of solar radiation modification https://github.com/srm-ecology
Aim: to understand and predict potential ecological impacts of solar radiation geoengineering. Funding: US National Science Foundation

Repositories include:
- MHW_climateintervention
- srm-ecology-website

xprize-msu: XPRIZE Rainforest: Amazonas/MSU Team https://github.com/xprize-msu
code shared among members of the XPRIZE Rainforest team: ACT NOW Amazonas Action Alliance. Funding: Michigan State University

Repositories include: