Biological traits

• TRY  – global database of plant functional traits
• TundraTrait  – database of plant functional traits for tundra species
• LEDA  – life history traits of the Northwest European flora
• BiolFlor  – database on biological and ecological traits of the flora of Germany
• CLO-PLA  – clonal growth plant traits of Central European flora
• Trochet et al. 2014  – A database of life-history traits of European amphibians
• Tr8 R package  – retrieves plant traits from BiolFlor ,LEDA, ECOFLORA, Italian Flora, Mycorrhizal intensity and MycoFlor1 databases
• panTHERIA  – a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals
• FishBase  – global biodiversity information system on finfishes
• Tetra-EU 1.0  – a species-level trophic meta-web of European tetrapods
• Plant root altas  – 1,000 drawings of root system excavations carried out in Europe, with dimensions
• GIFT database  – Regional plant checklists and functional traits (287,884 sp, 109 traits)
• FloraVeg.eu   –  db of European vegetation, habitats and flora data

Conservation

• WDPA  – World Database on Protected Areas (manual )

Taxonomy and Phylogeny

• IPNI  – International Plant Names Index
• EURO-MED  – Information resource for Euro-Mediterranean diversity
• NCBI  – National Center for Biotechnology
• FishBase  – global biodiversity information system on finfishes
• Plazi – Development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature.

Species distribution data

• sPlot  – worldwide plant database of plot data
• GBIF  – Global biodiversity information facility
• Biocase  – Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
• Flora Europea  – Digital version of the Flora Europaea
• Den Virtuella floran  – Online access to the Atlas of North European vascular plants (Hultén & Fries 1986)
• Comparative chorology of the central europena flora  –  maps Meusel & Jäger 1998 vol I, II & III digitalized by Halle University
• GfS  – Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Europe
• EBBA  – European Breeding Bird Atlas
• CRSF  – distributions of all plants in Swizerland
• CSCF  – distributions of all animal in Switzerland
• FloraWeb  – floristic database for Germany
• Sophy  – floristic database for France
• Tropicos  – specimens, distributons, chromosome counts, references
• ArcticData  – biodiversity, topography, protected areas, human impact data
• Markku Savela’s webpage  – photographs, common names, scientific names, distribution of mammals, insects, birds and plants
• CKmap2000  – A complete checklist of the whole Italian fauna, with over 57,400 species
• BIEN  – Botanical Information and Ecology Network that documents global patterns of plant diversity, function and distribution
• OBIS  – Ocean biogeographic information system
• NSII  – China National Specimen Information
• disdat – R package with data for evaluating species distribution modelling methods
• Stephenson & Stengel 2020 – data base of biodiversity data sources 

Climate data

      Global:

• Chelsa  – Climatologies at high resolution for the earth’s land surface areas
• Global climate-related predictors  – extension of Chelsa with vpd, pet, moisture index, swb, snow index at 30′, 1980-2018
• Worldclim  – global climate layers (current – future – past / resolution 1’, 5’ 10’)
• Copernicus  – 1km bioclimatic indicators for EU 1979-2018 (biovars, drought, surface energy, veg, etp, soil, wind)
• CGIAR-CSI  – global climate layers, including aridity, PET and soil-water balance based on worldclim
• CliMond  – Global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling
• ecoClimat  – 19 bioclimatic layers + 4 monthly raw variables at 0.5°  for pre-industrial, historical, modern and future periods downscaled from CMPI5/PMIP 
• EC-Earth  – Historical (1850-2006) and future simulation (2006-2100) for Ocean and Atmosphere climates
• CCAFS  – Downscaled layers from future climate models (GCMs) from the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security
• NOAA  – Reconstructed paleoclimates from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
• MOD16  – Global Evapotranspiration data (ET,LE,PET,PLE) for 2000-2014 derived from MODIS at 1km 
• podaac  – Various oceanographical data on ftp of the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center
• bio-ORACLE  – Marine data layers for ecological modelling
• GMED  – Global marine datasets for species distribution modelling and environment visualisation
• MARSPEC  – High resolution climatic and geophysical raster grids for the world ocean

      Europe:

• Eurolst  – Reconstructed MODIS Land Surface Temperature at 250m for Europe

      Switzerland:

• Meteoswiss  – Monthly and annual climatic maps at 2.2 km

Soil & land use data

      global:

• SAGE  – Human impacts, land use, ecosystems and water resources data
• Land Use Harmonization  – set of historical land-use and land-use transitions reconstructions and future RCP scenarios for the time period 1500-2100 at 0.5° resolution
• Global Forest Change  – Worldwide forest extent, loss and gain (tree>5m) for years 2000-2012 at 30m resolution based on Landsat images
• NSIDC  – American National Snow & Ice Data Center providing many satellite and field data in the Arctic and Antarctic regions
• FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC  – Harmonized World Soil Database
• EarthEnv  – Consensus land cover and 90m DEM
• Human Footprint  – cumulative impact of direct pressures on nature from human activities at 1km resolution
• giemsd15  – Global Inundation Extent from Multi-Satellites at 500m
• soilgrids  – soil property and class maps of the world at 1 km / 250 m produced using machine learning algorithms.
• Theia Land Data Center  – Sentinel-2 Level 2A (10m, with atmospheric correction) and Snow cover (20m, masked for clouds).
• temporal mapping of global human modification 1990-2017  – from Theobald et al. 2020 (14 stressors, 0.09 km2 res)

      Europe:

• European Environment agency  – tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)
• Copernicus  – image mosaics, Corine land cover, High res land cover (20m), dem, hydro, settlement

      Switzerland:

• GEOSTAT  – geodata from the Federal Office for Statistics

Topographic data

      global:

• EarthEnv  – Global 1,5,10,100-km Topography
• SRTM  – DEM at 90m
• JAXA-DEM  – World Elevation Data at 30m from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
• USGS  – Elevation, watershed and related variables for the globe at 1km resolution from the US Geological Survey

      Europe:

• Copernicus  – image mosaics, Corine land cover, High res land cover (20m), dem, hydro, settlement

      Switzerland:

• swissALTI3D , swissSURFACE3D  – digital elevation and surface models at 1m resolution
• DHM25  – Digital height model at 25m based on 1:25’000 national maps

Other environmental data

      global:

• GEOSS portal – search engine for GIS data
• IIASA – GIS data on Energy & climate Change, Food & Water, Poverty and Equity at different extents and resolutions
• GECON – Gross cell product (~GDP) at 1°
• Global Human Influence Index  – 1km resolution. Intergrates population density, built-up areas, nighttime lights, land use/land cover), coastlines, roads, railroads, navigable rivers. 

      Europe:

• European Environment agency  – tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)

• CRAN – The comprehensive R archive network (Swiss mirror)
• mapview  – on-the-fly mapping of spatial in R (tutorial )
• Quick-R  – User-friendly guide for users of statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS) who would like to transition to R
• biomod2  – R library for ensemble forecasting of species distributions
• dismo  – R library for species distributon modeling (including MaxEnt)
• GDM  – R library for Generalized dissimilarity modeling
• BIOMAPPER – A GIS-toolkit to model habitat suitability
• ADE-4  – R library for analysis of ecological and environmental data
• STATLIB  – Data, software and news from the Statistics Community
• ESRI  – support for ArcGIS
• GRASS  and DIVA-GIS  – free GIS softwares
• Colorbrewer  – color advice for cartography
• Marxan  and ZONATION – softwares for spatial conservation planning (e.g. design reserve systems, assess performance of existing reserves, develop multiple-use zoning plans)
• prioritizr  – R package for solving systematic conservation prioritization problems using integer linear programming (ILP) 
• sdmvspecies  and virtualspecies  – R libraries to create virtual species for species distribution modelling
• R interface to Keras  – high-level neural networks API
• maxnet – Fitting ‘Maxent’ Species Distribution Models with ‘glmnet’
• PaleoView  – a tool for generating continuous climate projections spanning the last 21 000 years at regional and global scale. github 
• remap – remote ecosystem monitoring assessment pipeline 
• zoon  – R package for reproducible and shareable species distribution modelling 
• Wildnote  – An app to collect field data
• hsdm – R package for estimating parameters of hierarchical Bayesian species distribution models
• IUCN redlist Tools and Data  – A range of arcGIS tools and resources to help create distribution maps in a format appropriate for publication in an IUCN Red List assessment (version for R: redlistr package )

Labs

• Zimmerman’s Lab  (WSL) – modeling patterns and dynamics at the landscape scale
• Thuiller’s Lab  (Grenoble) – Towards eco-evolutionnary models of biodiversity
• Rahbek’s Lab  (Copenhagen) – Center for Macroecology
• Araujo’s Lab  (Madrid) – Integrative Biology and Global Change
• Graham’s Lab  (WSL) – spatial and temporal arrangement of habitats on ecological and evolutionary patterns
• Salamin’s Lab (UNIL) – phylogenetic and evolutionary modeling tools
• Rasmann’s Lab  (UNINE) – ecology and evolution of plant-insect interaction
• LASIG  (EPFL) – Laboratoire des Système d’Information Géographique
• Possingham’s lab  (UQ) – Spatial Ecology Lab and ARC Center of Excellence for Environmental Decision
• Buckley’s lab  (Trinity College Dublin) – Drivers of animal and plant population processes in a rapidly changing world
• Honrado’s lab  (CIBIO, Porto) – Plants & Traits – Functional Plant Ecology
• Fischer’s lab (UNIBE)  – basic and applied research in a wide spectrum of plant ecological disciplines
• Adrienne Grêt-Regamey’s lab (ETHZ)  – Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems
• Miska Luoto’s lab  (Helsinki) – Biogeoclimate modeling lab

Projects

• CH2025  – Climate change scenarios to be developed for Switzerland
• atlasflorevd  – Projet Atlas flore vaudoise (in French)
• GMBA  – The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment is a network to explore the biological richness of mountains of the world
• PPCH (UNIL) – A database for Swiss permanent vegetation plots 
• MIREN  – Mountain Invasion Research Network
• NCEAS  – National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• Competence Centre in Sustainability (CCD) at UNIL – Program of UNIL to stimulate teaching and research on environmental and social sustainability
• GLORIA  – Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments
• DAISIE  – Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe
• PLANTPOPNET  –  Plantago lanceolata: A Spatially Distributed Model System for Population Ecology
• EUSAPL  – EU Strategy for the Alpine Region
• AlpES  – mapping, maintenance, management for Alpine Ecosystem Services
• IPCC  – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• IPBES  – Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Agencies

• BAFU/OFEV  – Swiss Federal Office for the Environment
• DGE-BIODIV  – Division biodiversity and Landscape of Canton de Vaud
• Swisstopo  – Swiss Federal Office for Topography, cartographic server: map.geo.admin
• OFS  – Swiss Federal Office for Statistics
• COGIS  – Swiss Coordination for Geo-Information and Services
• SBS  – Swiss Botanical Society
• Infospecies – Swiss information center for species; flora section: Infoflora
• MétéoSuisse  – Climate change in Switzerland