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BioTIME is a database of biodiversity time series. It is freely accessible for research, education and conservation, with appropriate permissions by data owners. However, many parts of the world, particularly those rich in biodiversity, are underrepresented in BioTIME. There are also many taxa with uneven temporal and spatial coverage. We therefore invite you to contribute your biodiversity time series data to BioTIME, to help fill these data gaps and increase understanding of how biodiversity has changed worldwide. | We strongly believe in giving credit to data collectors, as without the efforts of people collecting data it is impossible for synthesis work to take place. We also believe that science benefits from people sharing data. The BioTIME database is publicly available, and supported by an open-access data paper in which all data contributors have been invited to be co-authors. These contributions will establish BioTIME as the standard database for biodiversity time series analysis. By participating, you can ensure that your data remains available into the future and increase the impact of your work with little additional effort on your part. |
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Our database is built to clearly recognize and give credit to the original data collectors and data owners (that's you!). Our current data use policy is outlined below, but please get in touch with us if you have data to contribute but are uncomfortable with the current terms of this policy. We will do our best to respect data contributor wishes. If you have data to contribute, please use this template to format your data and metadata, and email them to biotimeproj@st-andrews.ac.uk. We may contact you for additional details on your data or methods if they are not sufficiently described in the original dataset or publication. |
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