About BioTIME
BioTIME is a comprehensive collection of assemblage time-series in which the abundances of the species that comprise ecological communities have been monitored over time. The database is a free, publicly available, open-access resource.
361 datasets
12+ million records
130 years
50,000 species
600,000+ locations
30 biomes
6 climatic zones
The database
BioTIME is designed especially for scientific synthesis studies with research questions about global biodiversity. We believe that data is valuable and should be made usable. Our database contains tables on species abundances across time and space, as well as important metadata about the taxa, habitat, and sampling methods. This is all made possible by our data contributors.
We abide by the FAIR data principles: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable
Our team
We're a small team of ecoinformaticians, community ecologists, and macroecologists based at the University of St Andrews. BioTIME grew out of two ERC grants (AdG BioTIME 250189 and PoC BioCHANGE 72744) awarded to Professor Anne Magurran. The database is located at the University of St Andrews where three members of the core team are also based. The remainder of the team are currently based in Finland and Canada.
The wider BioTIME consortium comprises many of the data contributors to the database along with enthusiastic University of St Andrews students and staff who assisted with data collection and cleaning. There are 265 BioTIME consortium members based at institutions spanning 35 countries around the globe.
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Viviana Brambilla
University of Lisbon
