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Ecosystem Responses to Hurricanes across North America, the Caribbean, and Taiwan; 1985 to 2018

Tropical cyclones play an increasingly important role in shaping ecosystems. Understanding and generalizing their responses is challenging because of meteorological variability among storms and its interaction with ecosystems. Data here represent the responses of ecosystems to hurricanes from across North America, the Caribbean and Taiwan. Data across a variety of ecosystems are represented here including wetlands, estuaries, marine, terrestrial and fresh water systems. These data measure a variety of different parameters to understand ecosystem response such as biogeochemical, hydrological and physical measurements as well as the abundance of mobile and sedentary biota. Meteorological data characterizing tropical cyclones are also presented and are derived from: IBTrACS: International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship Global storm track data set for all recorded low pressure systems and tropical cyclones dating back to 1842. Data includes timestamped spatial information on storm center location as well as meteorological readings of wind speed, wind direction, and barometric pressure. Most importantly for the purposes of this data set, wind speeds at various distances from storm center are provided, which allows for the development of a model of wind speed with distance for different category storms. GRIDMET: University of Idaho Gridded Surface Meteorological Dataset The Gridded Surface Meteorological dataset provides high spatial resolution (~4-km) daily surface fields of temperature, precipitation, winds, humidity and radiation across the contiguous United States from 1979. The dataset blends the high resolution spatial data from PRISM with the high temporal resolution data from the National Land Data Assimilation System (NLDAS) to produce spatially and temporally continuous fields that lend themselves to additional land surface modeling. This dataset contains provisional products that are replaced with updated versions when the complete source data becom

openCC0Dec 2021View details →
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Environmental data from FCE LTER Caribbean Karstic Region (CKR) study in Yucatan, Belize and Jamaica during Years 2006, 2007 and 2008

Several studies have shown that within the Florida Coastal Everglades, periphyton mat properties, (incuding biomass, nutrient and organic content, and community composition) vary predictably in response to water quality.The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) wetland system is very similar with respect to climate, geology, hydrology and vegetation, to wetlands found in Jamaica, the Yucatan region of Mexico and parts of Belize. This study was therefore conducted to ascertain (i) the level of similarity between the periphyton diatom communities from karstic wetland sites in Belize, Mexico, Jamaica and comparable sites within the FCE, (ii) the relationship between periphyton biomass, TP levels and diatom community composition at these sites, and (iii) the feasibility of employing diatoms as indicators of water quality at these sites, using models relating diatom community composition to water quality from comparable sites within the FCE. Multiple wetland sites in Jamaica, the Yucatan region of Mexico and parts of Belize were visited between 2006 and 2008, during wet and dry seasons. At each site physico-chemical data were collected along with periphyton samples. The periphyton samples were processed in accordance with standard methods to obtain biomass, organic content and TP measures, and to identify and enumerate diatom and soft algae species. Various aspects of the diatom communities were then compared to previously compiled data on diatom communities from various parts of the FCE. SIMI analysis was used to determine the level of similarity between the systems and Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling was used to identify relationships between diatom communities and water quality.

openCC (other)Feb 2024View details →
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Diatom Species Abundance Data from LTER Caribbean Karstic Region (CKR) study (FCE) in Yucatan, Belize and Jamaica during 2006, 2007, 2008

Several studies have shown that within the Florida Coastal Everglades, periphyton mat properties, (incuding biomass, nutrient and organic content, and community composition) vary predictably in response to water quality.The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) wetland system is very similar with respect to climate, geology, hydrology and vegetation, to wetlands found in Jamaica, the Yucatan region of Mexico and parts of Belize. This study was therefore conducted to ascertain (i) the level of similarity between the periphyton diatom communities from karstic wetland sites in Belize, Mexico, Jamaica and comparable sites within the FCE, (ii) the relationship between periphyton biomass, TP levels and diatom community composition at these sites, and (iii) the feasibility of employing diatoms as indicators of water quality at these sites, using models relating diatom community composition to water quality from comparable sites within the FCE. Multiple wetland sites in Jamaica, the Yucatan region of Mexico and parts of Belize were visited between 2006 and 2008, during wet and dry seasons. At each site physico-chemical data were collected along with periphyton samples. The periphyton samples were processed in accordance with standard methods to obtain biomass, organic content and TP measures, and to identify and enumerate diatom and soft algae species. Various aspects of the diatom communities were then compared to previously compiled data on diatom communities from various parts of the FCE. SIMI analysis was used to determine the level of similarity between the systems and Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling was used to identify relationships between diatom communities and water quality.

openCC (other)Feb 2024View details →
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Periphyton data from LTER Caribbean Karstic Region (CKR) study in Yucatan, Belize and Jamaica (FCE LTER) during 2006, 2007, 2008

Several studies have shown that within the Florida Coastal Everglades, periphyton mat properties, (incuding biomass, nutrient and organic content, and community composition) vary predictably in response to water quality.The Florida Coastal Everglades (FCE) wetland system is very similar with respect to climate, geology, hydrology and vegetation, to wetlands found in Jamaica, the Yucatan region of Mexico and parts of Belize. This study was therefore conducted to ascertain (i) the level of similarity between the periphyton diatom communities from karstic wetland sites in Belize, Mexico, Jamaica and comparable sites within the FCE, (ii) the relationship between periphyton biomass, TP levels and diatom community composition at these sites, and (iii) the feasibility of employing diatoms as indicators of water quality at these sites, using models relating diatom community composition to water quality from comparable sites within the FCE. Multiple wetland sites in Jamaica, the Yucatan region of Mexico and parts of Belize were visited between 2006 and 2008, during wet and dry seasons. At each site physico-chemical data were collected along with periphyton samples. The periphyton samples were processed in accordance with standard methods to obtain biomass, organic content and TP measures, and to identify and enumerate diatom and soft algae species. Various aspects of the diatom communities were then compared to previously compiled data on diatom communities from various parts of the FCE. SIMI analysis was used to determine the level of similarity between the systems and Non-Metric Multidimensional Scaling was used to identify relationships between diatom communities and water quality.

openCC (other)Apr 2022View details →
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DATASET: De novo assembly and functional annotation of the heart + hemolymph transcriptome in the Caribbean spiny lobster Panulirus argus

<p>The spiny lobster <em>Panulirus argus</em> is an ecologically relevant species in shallow water coral reefs and target of the most lucrative fishery in the greater Caribbean region. This study reports, for the first time, the heart + hemolymph transcriptome of the Caribbean spiny lobster<em> Panulirus argus</em> assembled from short Illumina 150&thinsp;bp PE raw reads. A total 80,152,094 raw reads were assembled using the Oyster River Protocol pipeline that aspires to become the standard protocol for <em>de novo</em> transcriptome assembly. The assembly resulted in a total of 254,773 transcripts. Functional gene annotation was conducted using the software package &#39;dammit&#39; that also aspires to become the standard protocol for <em>de novo</em> transcriptome annotation. Lastly, gene enrichment analyses were conducted using the Gene Ontology (GO), KEGG pathway analyses (Kaas), and KOG (WebMGA) databases. This resource will be of utmost importance in future research aiming at exploring the effect of local and regional anthropogenic disturbances as well as global climate change on the molecular physiology of this overexploited species.</p>

opencc-by-4.0Dec 2019View details →
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Identification of strengths and weaknesses of cooperative efforts within the wider Caribbean using a network approach

<p>Dataset associated to&nbsp;Ram&iacute;rez-Ram&iacute;rez RD, Montilla LM, Cavada-Blanco F and Croquer A. Identification of strengths and weaknesses of cooperative efforts within the wider Caribbean using a collaboration network approach [version 1; not peer reviewed].&nbsp;<em>F1000Research</em>&nbsp;2016,&nbsp;<strong>5</strong>:799 (poster) (doi:&nbsp;10.7490/f1000research.1111809.1)</p>

opencc-by-4.0Mar 2017View details →
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Revised database of the Soil Information System of Latin America and the Caribbean, SISLAC

<p>This dataset&nbsp;contains the revised version of the SISLAC database in three formats: comma-separated values (.csv), microsoft access (.mdb) and PostGIS database (.backup). This database was reviewed and the inconsistencies found in the profiles and in the description of their horizons were corrected.&nbsp;Consists of two tables, one for the description of the profiles and the other with the description of the horizons and their properties. The key field between both tables&nbsp;is the&nbsp;profile identifier, column&nbsp;<strong><em>profile_id</em></strong>.</p>

opencc-by-4.0May 2022View details →
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Dataset for "Authorship concentration in health sciences journals from Latin America and the Caribbean"

<p>Authorship concentration indexes and other data for journals in the LILACS (Latin American and the Caribbean Literature on Health Sciences) bibliographic database, from 2015 to 2019 (FONTENELLE, 2022). These data are read and created by <a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6127497">analytic code in Zenodo</a>.</p> <ul> <li><em>authorship_concentration.csv</em> - dataset derived in Fontenelle (2022) from raw data exported from LILACS. This is the main file, and it&#39;s CC-BY because other researchers might have curated the raw data differently and thus derived different data. CSV file encoded with ASCII.</li> <li><em>authorship_concentration_datadictionary.csv</em> - data dictionary for the previous file. This file is actually CC0. CSV file encoded with ASCII.</li> <li><em>journals.csv</em> - dataset about the journals indexed in LILACS between 2015 and 2019. As a result of simply converting and filtering the original TITLE database, this is actually CC0 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). CSV file encoded with UTF-8.</li> <li><em>journal_subjects.csv</em> - DeCS descriptors for the journals identified by the ISSN. CC0 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), as above. CS file encoded with ASCII.</li> </ul>

opencc-by-4.0Feb 2022View details →
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Water Body Checklists 2019: Caribbean Sea Species List

Species checklists created using effechecka and modified polygons from IHO. The polygons were reduced in resolution.<p></p>List of species collected from the Caribbean Sea using effechecka and a modified polygon from the International Hydrographic Association. A filter was applied (based on data from WoRMS) to remove all non-marine taxa.

opencc-by-4.0Aug 2024View details →
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Water Body Checklists: Caribbean Sea Species List

Species checklists created using effechecka and modified polygons from IHO. The polygons were reduced in resolution.<p></p>List of species collected from the Caribbean Sea using effechecka and a modified polygon from the International Hydrographic Association. A filter was applied (based on data from WoRMS) to remove all non-marine taxa.

opencc-zeroAug 2024View details →
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Revised database of the Soil Information System of Latin America and the Caribbean, SISLAC version 1.2

<p>The SISLAC_database version 1.2 contains the revised version of the SISLAC database in&nbsp;comma-separated values (csv) format. This database was reviewed and the inconsistencies found in the profiles and in the description of their horizons were corrected.&nbsp; The key field between both tables&nbsp;is the&nbsp;profile identifier, column&nbsp;<strong><em>profile_id</em></strong>.</p>

opencc-byApr 2023View details →
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A set of six databases used in a study of the biogeography of Greater Caribbean reef fishes entitled: Comparing biodiversity databases: Greater Caribbean reef-fishes as a case study Iliana Chollett1, D. Ross Robertson2 1 Sea Cottage, Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, Ireland 2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panamá

<p><strong>A set of six databases used in a study of the biogeography of Greater Caribbean reef fishes entitled:</strong></p> <p><strong><em>&nbsp;</em></strong></p> <p><strong><em>Comparing biodiversity databases: Greater Caribbean reef-fishes as a case study</em></strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Iliana Chollett, D. Ross Robertson</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Database Authors: D Ross Robertson and Ernesto Pe&ntilde;a, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panam&aacute;</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>This set of six databases contains georeferenced location records from six sources as described below.These six sources provided georeferenced records of occurrence of fishes found in the Greater Caribbean study area (6-33<sup>0</sup> N, 57-100<sup>0</sup> W). Each occurrence record consists of a species name and associated latitude and longitude. Databases included in the comparisons made here are from five major online aggregators. Since their content overlaps to some extent, and OBIS, iDigBio and FishNet collaborate with GBIF, their data might be expected to produce similar biogeographic patterns. STRI includes a curated compendium of data from those five aggregators, enriched with data from many additional sources.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Only reef-associated fish species were included in the present analysis. These mostly represent demersal species known to occur on hard bottoms (coral, rock and oyster substrata), but also include species living on rubble, sand and vegetated bottoms within and around the immediate fringes of reefs, and pelagic species regularly found on reefs. All exotic and non-resident species and species other than reef-associated fishes were excluded from all databases prior to comparisons. Non-residents were defined as otherwise widespread species only rarely seen in the study area. Shore-fishes, including what are generally regarded as reef fishes, include those found in the waters of continental and insular shelves, i.e. between 0-200m. Reef-fish assemblages dominated by shallow-water taxa extend down to that depth in the study area (Baldwin <em>et al.</em> 2018). We used the shelf edge as a breakpoint and excluded records in areas deeper than 200m, identifying those areas using the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (Kapoor, 1981; GEBCO Compilation Group, 2019).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Before the analyses, for all databases, duplicate records were deleted. Subsequently, records in the Pacific or on land were deleted. We used the Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (Wessel &amp; Smith, 1996) to identify these areas. The spatial distribution of species-records in each database is shown in Figure 1 of the publication.</p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>Global Biodiversity Information Facility </strong>(GBIF, https://www.gbif.org/): GBIF is an international network and research infrastructure aimed at providing open access to data about all types of life on earth. GBIF works through participant nodes using common standards and open-source tools that enable them to share information. Data from among the 49,000+ datasets hosted by GBIF that were used here range from those on museum specimens collected since the 18th century, to published scientific checklists, to curated&nbsp; local checklists produced by trained science sources such as the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Assessment Program (https://www.agrra.org/),to geotagged smartphone photos (that act as vouchers allowing verification) shared by amateur and scientific naturalists through iNaturalist (https://www.inaturalist.org/), to unvouchered, unverified and unverifiable observation records from untrained divers such as those contributing to DiveBoard (http://www.diveboard.com). GBIF data are standardized in Darwin Core format. GBIF data were obtained from a polygon of the region of study and subject to taxonomic review and selection after downloading. GBIF data were obtained from a polygon of the study area and subject to taxonomic review after downloading (accessed through the GBIF portal, https://www.gbif.org/, on or about 2019-05-19).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Ocean Biogeographic Information System</strong> (OBIS,&nbsp; <a href="https://obis.org/">https://obis.org/</a>): OBIS is a global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity (OBIS, 2019) that was adopted as a project of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange of the Intergovernmental Commission of UNESCO . Its range of sources is similar to that of GBIF. OBIS hosts data from organizations or programs that join it as one of 13 &ldquo;nodes&rdquo;, and harvest the data from the IPT (Integrated Publishing Toolkit), where providers publish their data. The IPT is developed and maintained by the GBIF, and OBIS is a major contributor of marine data to GBIF. Data are standardized in Darwin Core format. OBIS data were obtained for the region of study by downloading data on each family, then retaining only data inside the study area, which were then subject to taxonomic review and selection (accessed through the OBIS portal, https://obis.org/, on or about 2019-05-19).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Integrated Digitized Biocollections</strong> (iDigBio, https://portal.idigbio.org/portal/search): iDigBio is sponsored by the a US National Science Foundation and run by the University of Florida that provides digital data from public, non-federal, US collections. Data are standardized in a Darwin Core format, and provided &ldquo;as is&rdquo;. IDigBio joined the GBIF network in 2017. IDigBio records were downloaded from a polygon of the region of study and subject to taxonomic review and selection (accessed through the iDigBio portal, https://portal.idigbio.org/portal/search, on or about 2019-05-19).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>FishNet2 </strong>(http://www.fishnet2.net/): FishNet2 is a collaborative effort that aggregates data on fish collections around the world to share and distribute data on specimen holdings from ~75 museums, universities and other institutions. FishNet2 distributes data in Darwin Core, and data are provided &ldquo;as is&rdquo;. FishNet2 is part of the network VerNet, which has contributed to GBIF since 2013 and became part of IDigBio in 2016. While FishNet2 has made substantial efforts to georeference location-record data it hosts, many hosted records still lack georeferencing. FishNet2 data were obtained from a polygon of the study area and subject to taxonomic review after downloading (accessed through the Fishnet2 Portal, www.fishnet2.org, 2019-05-19).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>FishBase</strong> (<a href="http://www.fishbase.org/">http://www.fishbase.org</a>): FishBase is a global biodiversity information system supervise by a consortium of nine non-USA international institutions, and hosts data on fin fishes and elasmobranchs&nbsp; (Froese &amp; Pauly, 2009). Information presented in FishBase is extracted from the scientific literature, reports and museum or aggregator (GBIF) databases, and standardized by a team of specialists. Data from Fishbase were downloaded for the following ecosystems: Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Southeast U.S. Continental Shelf, Atlantic Ocean, Sargasso Sea and Bermuda, and subject to taxonomic review and selection after downloading (2019-05-19).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute</strong> (STRI; <a href="https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/pages">https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/pages</a>): The STRI database was compiled by DRR and Ernesto Pe&ntilde;a at STRI&rsquo;s Naos Marine Laboratory, and represents about 15 years accumulation of curated data (see below) from the following sources:&nbsp; data downloaded at roughly two year intervals from the five aggregators; data from online databases of various museums that supply aggregators (data directly downloaded from a museum sometimes differs from that available in an aggregator from the same museum), including the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the American Museum of Natural History, the Natural History Museum of Denmark, the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, the Colombian Museum of Natural Marine History, the United States National Museum, and the United States Geological Survey; data from national aggregators of Colombia (Sistema de Informaci&oacute;n Sobre Biodiversidad de Colombia (https://sibcolombia.net/), and&nbsp; Sistema de Informaci&oacute;n Ambiental Marina de Colombia, https://siam.invemar.org.co/), Mexico (La Comisi&oacute;n Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad, CONABIO;&nbsp;&nbsp; http://www.conabio.gob.mx/informacion/gis/), and Costa Rica (Museo de Zoologia de la Universidad de Costa Rica, http://museo.biologia.ucr.ac.cr/); verified (by DRR) underwater photographs of fishes taken at known locations; peer reviewed publications containing location information (species descriptions; taxonomic revisions of species, genera and families; regional and local checklists); fisheries reports; digital tagging data for species such as elasmobranchs; diving surveys and collections of local faunas by DRR (e.g. Robertson et al. 2019). In addition selected data from two sources that collect species lists at sites scattered throughout the Greater Caribbean are incorporated: from the Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment program (AGRRA, https://www.agrra.org/: Kramer &amp; Lang, 2003) and from trained citizen scientists who contribute data on fishes to the Reef Environmental Education Foundation&rsquo;s database (REEF: Pattengill-Semmens &amp; Semmens, 2003). The bibliographic module (https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/library) of Robertson &amp; VanTassel (2019) contains ~1700 publications linked to species names, among them the publications from which location data were extracted.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Data from the aggregators is presented &ldquo;as is&rdquo; and the aggregators themselves do not do data curation. Duplicates (and occasionally triplicates and quaduplicates) of the same museum record often are included from multiple sources (e.g. the original museum source, derivative checklists, an aggregator), sometimes with slightly different georeferenced coordinates. Data available in one year may subsequently disappear from an aggregator, and different data may be available for the same species under different names (e.g. the old and new names when a species is reassigned to another genus). Errors, sometimes large errors (Robertson, 2008), are common in aggregator data, from museums as well as other sources, and longstanding errors can seem to take on a perpetual existence. For example the damselfish <em>Abudefduf saxatilis </em>is a common and widespread inhabitant of tropical reefs on both sides of the Atlantic, but does not naturally occur outside that ocean. Despite the fact that its taxonomic status and range were resolved ~30 y ago (e.g. see Allen, 1991) museum data presented by the all five aggregators that contributed to the multi-source database used in this study currently (December 10, 2019) show large numbers of records of this species throughout the entire tropical Indo-Pacific, as well as across its native range in the Atlantic. Since many of the databases accumulating on aggregators are derivative (lists derived from records and from other derivative lists) it will become increasingly difficult to eliminate such errors as corrections to data in primary sources do not automatically propagate through the chain of usage by different databases. Due to increasing limitations on resources for taxonomic work, museums themselves have difficulty dealing with errors in specimen identity and location, and old specimens become unidentifiable, specimens never get returned when loaned out, or simply vanish, and entire collections can get destroyed by hurricanes or fires, or get dumped when museums close or experience a major change in mission. Georeferenced location data on fish distributions in the neotropics (and presumably most other areas) hosted by aggregators, particularly GBIF and OBIS, which take data from a broad range of source types, might best be described as messy, and the significant potential for errors in location records and an inability to verify records always needs to be taken into account when incorporating data from aggregators, primary museum sources, and analog sources.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Data considered for inclusion in the STRI database were screened as follows to exclude questionable records.&nbsp; Data from two databases hosted by OBIS and GBIF were excluded entirely due to lack of reliability: BioGoMx (https://www.gulfbase.org/project/biodiversity-gulf-mexico-biogomx-database) and Diveboard (http://www.diveboard.com).&nbsp; The only REEF data used were from &ldquo;expert&rdquo; REEF recorders on readily identifiable species that are unlikely to be confused with similar species (e.g. data for some genera of sparids, gerreids, labrisomids and gobies that include various sympatric species with very similar appearances, were not used).&nbsp; After data from aggregators and museum sources were combined into a single database duplicate records were filtered out by rounding all records to three decimal places and eliminating duplicates, a process that inevitably deleted some valid records as well as duplicates. The sizes of the databases and abundance of such duplicates precluded individual manual exclusion. Finally, all location data for each species were revised by DRR by examining the distribution of its georeferenced coordinates overlayed on a digital map of the current known distribution range of that species (for such range information see Carpenter &amp; De Angelis, 2002; Ebert <em>et al.</em>, 2013; Last <em>et al.</em>, 2016; Robertson &amp; Van Tassell, 2019; IUCN Redlist species accounts for most species considered here: https://www.iucnredlist.org/search). Such revision took into account any recent modifications to taxonomy and distributions due to new data and new publications, or as a result of discussions between DRR and experts in the taxonomy of particular species or genera. Source information of many individual questionable records provided by aggregators with the hosted data was inspected to try and assess their validity. Records thought likely to be erroneous were deleted. Those included inexplicable records lacking adequate documentation located well outside the known distribution range, and records in unlikely habitats (e.g. on land for marine species; in deep water for shallow-water species). This revision process reduced the number of records by about 30%.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Data from the five individual aggregator databases that are used in the comparisons described here were all downloaded from their online portals during May, 2019. However, data from those five aggregators that were incorporated in the STRI database were downloaded in March 2017, with data from other sources described above added to the STRI database intermittently between then and May 2019, when the entire dataset was curated as described above. Hence the five individual aggregator databases analyzed in this study undoubtedly contain data not included in the version of the STRI database used in the present analyses.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Acknowledgements</strong></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>Data acquisition and construction of the STRI database was supported by funds from STRI, the Smithsonian Marine Science Network, the Smithsonian Publications Fund, the Smithsonian&rsquo;s Deep Reef Observation Project, the National Geographic Society, the IUCN Red List program, the Harte Research Institute, and CONABIO. We thank REEF and AGRRA for supplying species-location records, various people for taxonomic and location-record information used to construct that database (principal among them C Baldwin, S Brandl, K Conway B Frable, T Menut, T Munroe, R Robins, L Tornabene, J Van Tassell and B Victor), and hundreds of citizen-scientist submarine photographers whose images (see <a href="https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/contributors/citizen_scientists">https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/contributors/citizen_scientists</a>) acted as vouchers for location records.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>Allen, G.R. (1991) <em>Damselfishes of the World</em>. Mergus, Melle, 271 p.</p> <p>Baldwin, C.C., Tornabene, L. &amp; Robertson, D.R. (2018) Below the mesophotic. <em>Scientific Reports</em>, 8, 4920.</p> <p>Carpenter, K.E. (Ed) (2002) <em>The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic.</em> Vols 1-3, FAO, Rome, 2127 p.</p> <p>Ebert, D.A., Fowler, S., Compagno, L. (2013) <em>Sharks of the World: a fully illustrated guide</em>. Wild Nature Press, Plymouth. 528 p.</p> <p>GEBCO Compilation Group (2019) GEBCO 2019 Grid (doi:10.5285/836f016a-33be-6ddc-e053-6c86abc0788e).</p> <p>Kapoor, D.C. (1981) General bathymetric chart of the oceans (GEBCO). <em>Marine Geodesy</em>, 5, 73&ndash;80.</p> <p>Kramer, P.R. &amp; Lang, J.C. (2003) Appendix one: The Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment (AGRRA) Protocols: Former Version 2. 2. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin</em>, 496, 611&ndash;624.</p> <p>Last, P. R., White, W.A., de Carvalho, M.R., S&eacute;ret, B., Stehmann, F.W., &amp; Naylor, J.P. (2016). <em>Rays of the World</em>. CSIRO, Clayton. 790 p.</p> <p>Pattengill-Semmens, C.V. &amp; Semmens, B.X. (2003) <em>Conservation and management applications of the reef volunteer fish monitoring program</em>. <em>Coastal Monitoring through Partnerships: Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Pensacola Beach, FL, U.S.A., April 24&ndash;27, 2001</em> (ed. by B.D. Melzian), V. Engle), M. McAlister), S. Sandhu), and L.K. Eads), pp. 43&ndash;50. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.</p> <p>Robertson, D. R. (2008) Global biogeographic databases on marine fishes: caveat emptor. <em>Diversity and Distributions, 14<strong>,</strong> 891-892</em></p> <p>Robertson, D.R,, Dominguez-Dominguez, O., Lopez Arollo, Y.M., Moreno Mendoza. R., Simoes, N. (2019) Reef-associated fishes from the offshore reefs of western Campeche Bank, Mexico, with a discussion of mangroves and seagrass beds as nursery habitats. <em>Zookeys </em>843: 71-115. <a href="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.843.33873">https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.843.33873</a></p> <p>Robertson, D.R &amp; Van Tassell, J. (2019) Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean: online information system. Version 2.0. <em>Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panam&aacute;</em>. <a href="https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/pages">https://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/caribbean/en/pages</a>.</p> <p>Wessel, P. &amp; Smith, W.H.F. (1996) A global, self-consistent, hierarchical, high-resolution shoreline database. <em>Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth</em>, 101, 8741&ndash;8743.</p>

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FIG. 1 in Three new species of Ischioscia Verhoeff, 1928 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Serranía de Perijá, Andean Cordillera, Colombian Caribbean

FIG. 1. — Ischioscia herrerai López-Orozco, Carpio-Díaz &amp; Campos-Filho n. sp., female paratype (CUDC-CRU 47): A, habitus, dorsal view; B, dorsal scale-seta; C, cephalon, dorsal view; D, cephalon, frontal view; E, telson; F, antennula; G, antenna. Scale bar: 1 mm.

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FIG. 7 in Three new species of Ischioscia Verhoeff, 1928 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Serranía de Perijá, Andean Cordillera, Colombian Caribbean

FIG. 7. — Ischioscia unicartagenae Campos-Filho, Carpio-Díaz &amp; López-Orozco n. sp., female paratype (CUDC-CRU 106). A, habitus, dorsal view; B, dorsal scale-seta; C, cephalon, dorsal view; D, cephalon, frontal view; E, telson; F, antennula; G, antenna. Scale bar: 1 mm.

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FIG. 6 in Three new species of Ischioscia Verhoeff, 1928 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Serranía de Perijá, Andean Cordillera, Colombian Caribbean

FIG. 6. — Ischioscia perijaensis Carpio-Díaz, López-Orozco &amp; Campos-Filho n. sp., male paratype (CUDC-CRU 40): A, pereopod 1; B, pereopod 7; C, genital papilla; D, pleopod 1, exopod (right), endopod (left); E, pleopod 2; F, pleopod 3; G, pleopod 4; H, pleopod 5.

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FIG. 2 in Three new species of Ischioscia Verhoeff, 1928 (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Philosciidae) from Serranía de Perijá, Andean Cordillera, Colombian Caribbean

FIG. 2. — Ischioscia herrerai López-Orozco, Carpio-Díaz &amp; Campos-Filho n. sp., female paratype (CUDC-CRU 47): A, left mandible; B, right mandible; C, maxillula inner endite (right), outer endite (left); D, maxilla; E, maxilliped; F, uropod.

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Figure 8 in Revision and phylogeny of the Caribbean weevil genus Apotomoderes Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)

Figure 8. Terminalia of A. anodontos: A aedeagus, ventral and lateral view B sternum VIII, female C spermatheca.

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Figure 5 in Revision and phylogeny of the Caribbean weevil genus Apotomoderes Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)

Figure 5. Terminalia of A. lateralis, male: A sternum VIII B spiculum gastrale C tegmen D aeadeagus, ventral and lateral view.

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Figure 20 in Revision and phylogeny of the Caribbean weevil genus Apotomoderes Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)

Figure 20. Inferred taxon-area cladogram for Apomotoderes, with Artipus floridanus representing the outgroup area.

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Figure 4 in Revision and phylogeny of the Caribbean weevil genus Apotomoderes Dejean, 1834 (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Entiminae)

Figure 4. Metendosternite and hind wing of A. lateralis: A metendosternite, posterior view B right hind wing.

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Allen Brain Atlas

Allen Brain Atlas is an Allen Institute collection of brain map atlases, datasets, APIs, and analysis tools covering mouse, human, and non-human primate brain resources.

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neuroscienceopenDocumentation, web resources, and API references are available online.
Last verified 2026-04-30Open record

Annotated Behaviour and Observability Dataset (ABODe)

ABODe is a University of Edinburgh DataShare dataset for behavior classification in group-housed mice using home-cage video, identities, bounding boxes, ground-plate positions, and annotator labels.

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behavioral-neuroscienceopenThe DataShare record exposes download links for annotations, documentation, license text, and the zipped per-snippet data directory.
Last verified 2026-04-30Open record

DANDI Archive for NWB datasets

DANDI is a BRAIN Initiative archive for publishing and sharing neurophysiology data, including electrophysiology, optophysiology, and behavioral data packaged as NWB and related standards.

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electrophysiologyopenPublished Dandiset metadata and archive endpoints are available through the production DANDI API.
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International Brain Laboratory public data

The International Brain Laboratory public data releases expose standardized mouse decision-making experiments, including Neuropixels recordings, widefield calcium imaging, behavior, and session metadata accessed through the ONE API.

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behavioral-neuroscienceopenPublic sessions can be searched and loaded from the IBL public data server through ONE.
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OpenNeuro

OpenNeuro is a free, open platform for sharing neuroimaging datasets, with public search, dataset pages, and download paths for web, S3, DataLad, and the OpenNeuro CLI.

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neuroscienceopenPublished datasets are available on demand over the internet.
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