Find research datasets worth reusing
Search datasets from major research repositories and use ShareScore to quickly assess how well each record supports discovery, access, and reuse.
4
datasets available to search
ShareScore release 0.9.0
Dataset results
4 results for “empty forest”
Dataset for: The empty forest three decades later: Lessons and prospects
<p>The "Empty Forest" paradigm published three decades ago inspired studies on biodiversity erosion. Evidence to date continues pessimistic regarding the fate of wildlife. This calls for a more proactive approach by several societal actors to realign systems of resource exploitation with the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity. In late February 2022, we used the Scopus search engine separately using the keywords "defaunation" and "empty forest" to aggregate the number of scientific publications using these terms in the manuscript title, abstract, and keywords. We thus analyzed this dataset using descriptive statistics, such as the number of published papers, the author's keywords, and a pictorial synthesis of the major effects of defaunation upon ecosystem functioning. Moreover, we briefly illustrate a pantropical overview on this topic by mapping defaunation trends (e.g. declines in species richness, abundance and population biomass) by selecting several key papers — using our extensive knowledge of this literature — and a wider geographic or long-term cover or large datasets documenting wildlife declines. We further derive estimates of proportional declines (richness, abundance, and biomass) by averaging (and SD) the major trends stated in these studies.</p>
Dataset for: The empty forest three decades later: Lessons and prospects
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
Data from: Yet another empty forest: considering the conservation value of a recently established tropical nature reserve
The primary approach used to conserve tropical biodiversity is in the establishment of protected areas. However, many tropical nature reserves are performing poorly and interventions in the broader landscape may be essential for conserving biodiversity both within reserves and at large. Between October 2010 and 2012, we conducted bird surveys in and around a recently established nature reserve in Xishuangbanna, China. We constructed a checklist of observed species, previously recorded species, and species inferred to have occurred in the area from their distributions and habitat requirements. In addition, we assessed variation in community composition and habitat specificity at a landscape-scale. Despite the fact that the landscape supports a large area of natural forest habitat (~50,000 ha), we estimate that >40% of the bird fauna has been extirpated and abundant evidence suggests hunting is the primary cause. A large proportion (52%) of the bigger birds (>20 cm) were extirpated and for large birds there was a U-shaped relationship between habitat breadth and extirpation probability. Habitat specificity was low and bird communities were dominated by widespread species of limited conservation concern. We question whether extending tropical protected area networks will deliver desired conservation gains, unless much greater effort is channeled into addressing the hunting problem both within existing protected areas and in the broader landscape.
Data from: Yet another empty forest: considering the conservation value of a recently established tropical nature reserve
Open the record for dataset details and reuse information.
ScienceDex guides
Understand access before you commit
These curated guides explain access requirements, typical timelines, costs, and reuse considerations for widely used research datasets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.