{"id":260,"date":"2025-11-17T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecospat\/?page_id=260"},"modified":"2026-09-16T09:36:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:36:20","slug":"useful-links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ecospat\/useful-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Useful Links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here we list online resources that are useful to our work<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Species data<\/summary>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biological traits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.try-db.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">TRY<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; global database of plant functional traits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/TundraTraitTeam\/TraitHub\">TundraTrait<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; database of plant functional traits for tundra species<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leda-traitbase.org\/LEDAportal\">LEDA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 life history traits of the Northwest European flora<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufz.de\/index.php?en=38567\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BiolFlor<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 database on biological and ecological traits of the flora of Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/clopla.butbn.cas.cz\/\">CLO-PLA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 clonal growth plant traits of Central European flora<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bdj.pensoft.net\/articles.php?id=4123\">Trochet et al. 2014<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; A database of life-history traits of European amphibians<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/2041-210X.12327\/abstract\">Tr8 R package<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; retrieves plant traits from&nbsp;BiolFlor ,LEDA,&nbsp;ECOFLORA,&nbsp;Italian Flora,&nbsp;Mycorrhizal intensity and&nbsp;MycoFlor1 databases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/esapubs.org\/archive\/ecol\/E090\/184\/\">panTHERIA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishbase.org\/search.php\">FishBase<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;global biodiversity information system on finfishes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/datadryad.org\/stash\/dataset\/doi:10.5061\/dryad.jm63xsj7b\">Tetra-EU 1.0<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; a species-level trophic meta-web of European tetrapods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/images.wur.nl\/digital\/collection\/coll13\/\">Plant root altas<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; 1,000 drawings&nbsp;of root system excavations carried out in Europe, with dimensions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gift.uni-goettingen.de\/home\">GIFT&nbsp;database<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Regional plant checklists and functional traits (287,884 sp, 109 traits)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/floraveg.eu\/\">FloraVeg.eu<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp; &#8211;&nbsp;&nbsp;db of European vegetation, habitats and flora data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Conservation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.protectedplanet.net\/\">WDPA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; World Database on Protected Areas (<a href=\"http:\/\/wcmc.io\/WDPA_Manual\">manual<\/a>&nbsp;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taxonomy and Phylogeny<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipni.org\/\">IPNI<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 International Plant Names Index<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.bgbm.org\/EuroPlusMed\/query.asp\">EURO-MED<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Information resource for Euro-Mediterranean diversity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/guide\/\">NCBI<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; National Center for Biotechnology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishbase.org\/search.php\">FishBase<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;global biodiversity information system on finfishes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/plazi.org\/\">Plazi&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; Development of persistent and openly accessible digital taxonomic literature.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Species distribution data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idiv.de\/en\/sdiv\/working_groups\/wg_pool\/splot\/splot_database.html\">sPlot<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; worldwide plant database of plot data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gbif.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GBIF<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Global biodiversity information facility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/search.biocase.org\/europe\/\">Biocase<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Biological Collection Access Service for Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rbg-web2.rbge.org.uk\/FE\/fe.html\">Flora Europea<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Digital version of the Flora Europaea<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Den Virtuella floran&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Online access to the Atlas of North European vascular plants (Hult\u00e9n &amp; Fries 1986)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.biologie.uni-halle.de\/bot\/ag_chorologie\/choro\/index.php?Lang=E\">Comparative chorology of the central europena flora<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; &nbsp;maps Meusel &amp; J\u00e4ger 1998 vol I, II &amp; III digitalized by Halle University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ufz.de\/index.php?en=22156\">GfS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Distribution Atlas of Butterflies in Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebba2.info\/\">EBBA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; European Breeding Bird Atlas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crsf.ch\/\">CRSF<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 distributions of all plants in Swizerland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lepus.unine.ch\/carto\">CSCF<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 distributions of all animal in Switzerland<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.floraweb.de\/\">FloraWeb<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; floristic database for Germany<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Sophy&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; floristic database for France<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tropicos.org\/\">Tropicos<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 specimens, distributons, chromosome counts, references<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ArcticData&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; biodiversity, topography, protected areas, human impact data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nic.funet.fi\/pub\/sci\/bio\/life\/intro.html\">Markku Savela\u2019s webpage<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; photographs, common names, scientific names, distribution of mammals, insects, birds and plants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CKmap2000&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;A complete checklist of the whole Italian fauna, with over 57,400 species<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/\">BIEN<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Botanical Information and Ecology Network that documents global patterns of plant diversity, function and distribution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/obis.org\/\">OBIS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Ocean biogeographic information system<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsii.org.cn\/\">NSII<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; China&nbsp;National Specimen Information<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rspatial\/disdat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">disdat&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; R package with data for evaluating species distribution modelling methods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0242923\">Stephenson &amp; Stengel 2020&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211;&nbsp;data base of biodiversity data sources&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Environmental data<\/summary>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Climate data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Global:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chelsa-climate.org\/\">Chelsa<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Climatologies at high resolution for the earth&rsquo;s land surface areas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/essd.copernicus.org\/articles\/14\/5573\/2022\/\">Global climate-related predictors<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; extension of Chelsa with vpd, pet, moisture index, swb, snow index at 30&prime;, 1980-2018<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldclim.org\/\">Worldclim<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 global climate layers (current \u2013 future \u2013 past \/ resolution 1\u2019, 5\u2019 10\u2019)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.climate.copernicus.eu\/cdsapp#!\/dataset\/sis-biodiversity-era5-regional?tab=overview\">Copernicus<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; 1km bioclimatic indicators for EU 1979-2018 (biovars, drought, surface energy, veg, etp, soil, wind)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/csidotinfo.wordpress.com\/2019\/01\/24\/global-aridity-index-and-potential-evapotranspiration-climate-database-v3\/\">CGIAR-CSI<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; global climate layers, including aridity, PET and soil-water balance based on worldclim<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CliMond&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoclimate.lncc.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ecoClimat<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; 19 bioclimatic layers + 4 monthly raw variables at 0.5\u00b0 &nbsp;for pre-industrial, historical, modern and future periods downscaled from&nbsp;CMPI5\/PMIP&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec-earth.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EC-Earth<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Historical (1850-2006) and future simulation (2006-2100) for Ocean and Atmosphere climates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ccafs.cgiar.org\/index.php\/resources\/tools\/downscaled-gcm-data-portal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CCAFS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Downscaled layers from future climate models (GCMs) from the Climate Change Agriculture and Food Security<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncdc.noaa.gov\/paleo\/paleo.htm\">NOAA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Reconstructed paleoclimates from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntsg.umt.edu\/project\/modis\/default.php\">MOD16<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Global Evapotranspiration data (ET,LE,PET,PLE) for 2000-2014 derived from MODIS at 1km&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/podaac.jpl.nasa.gov\/\">podaac<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Various oceanographical data on ftp of the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bio-oracle.org\/\">bio-ORACLE<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Marine data layers for ecological modelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/figshare.com\/articles\/dataset\/Global_Marine_Environment_Dataset_GMED_\/5937268?file=16412585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GMED<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Global marine datasets for species distribution modelling and environment visualisation<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marspec.org\/\">MARSPEC<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;High resolution climatic and geophysical raster grids for the world ocean<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Europe:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/neteler.org\/blog\/eurolst-seamless-gap-free-daily-european-maps-land-surface-temperatures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eurolst<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Reconstructed MODIS Land Surface Temperature at 250m for Europe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Switzerland:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meteoswiss.admin.ch\/climate\/the-climate-of-switzerland\/monthly-and-annual-maps.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meteoswiss<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Monthly and annual climatic maps at 2.2 km<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Soil &amp; land use data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; global:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sage.wisc.edu\/atlas\/maps.php\">S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nelson.wisc.edu\/sage\/data-and-models\/datasets.php\">AGE<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Human impacts, land use, ecosystems and water resources data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/luh.umd.edu\/\">Land Use Harmonization<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; set of historical land-use and land-use transitions reconstructions and future RCP scenarios for the time period 1500-2100 at 0.5\u00b0 resolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/earthenginepartners.appspot.com\/science-2013-global-forest\/download_v1.7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Forest Change<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Worldwide forest extent, loss and gain (tree&gt;5m) for years 2000-2012 at 30m resolution based on Landsat images<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nsidc.org\/data\/search\/\">NSIDC<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; American National Snow &amp; Ice Data Center providing many satellite and field data in the Arctic and Antarctic regions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fao.org\/soils-portal\/data-hub\/soil-maps-and-databases\/harmonized-world-soil-database-v20\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FAO\/IIASA\/ISRIC\/ISSCAS\/JRC<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Harmonized World Soil Database<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthenv.org\/\">EarthEnv<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Consensus land cover and 90m DEM<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/datadryad.org\/resource\/doi:10.5061\/dryad.052q5\">Human Footprint<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;cumulative impact of direct pressures on nature from human activities at 1km resolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.geog.mcgill.ca\/hydrolab\/giemsd15\/\">giemsd15<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Global Inundation Extent from Multi-Satellites at 500m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/soilgrids.org\/#!\/?layer=PHIHOX_M_sl2_250m&amp;vector=1\">soilgrids<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;soil property and class maps of the world at 1 km \/ 250 m&nbsp;produced using&nbsp;machine learning algorithms.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theia.cnes.fr\/atdistrib\/rocket\/#\/home\">Theia Land Data Center<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Sentinel-2 Level 2A (10m, with atmospheric correction)&nbsp;and Snow cover (20m, masked for clouds).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/records\/3963013\">temporal mapping of global human modification 1990-2017<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; from Theobald et al. 2020 (14 stressors, 0.09 km2 res)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Europe:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/data-and-maps\/data\/\">European Environment agency<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/land.copernicus.eu\/pan-european\">Copernicus<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; image mosaics, Corine land cover, High res land cover (20m), dem, hydro, settlement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Switzerland:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfs.admin.ch\/bfs\/en\/home\/services\/geostat\/swiss-federal-statistics-geodata.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GEOSTAT<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 geodata from the Federal Office for Statistics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Topographic data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; global:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthenv.org\/topography\">EarthEnv<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Global 1,5,10,100-km Topography<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/srtm.csi.cgiar.org\/srtmdata\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SRTM<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; DEM at 90m<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/global.jaxa.jp\/press\/2015\/05\/20150518_daichi.html\">JAXA-DEM<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; World Elevation Data at 30m from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/eros.usgs.gov\/\">USGS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Elevation, watershed and related variables for the globe at 1km resolution from the US Geological Survey<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Europe:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/land.copernicus.eu\/pan-european\">Copernicus<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; image mosaics, Corine land cover, High res land cover (20m), dem, hydro, settlement<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Switzerland:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisstopo.admin.ch\/en\/height-model-swissalti3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swissALTI3D<\/a>&nbsp;,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisstopo.admin.ch\/fr\/modele-altimetrique-swisssurface3d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">swissSURFACE3D<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; digital elevation and surface models at 1m resolution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shop.swisstopo.admin.ch\/en\/products\/height_models\">DHM25<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Digital height model at 25m based on 1:25&rsquo;000 national maps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Other environmental data<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; global:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>GEOSS portal &#8211; search engine for GIS data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IIASA&nbsp;&#8211; GIS data on Energy &amp; climate Change, Food &amp; Water, Poverty and Equity at different extents and resolutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gecon.yale.edu\/\">GECON&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; Gross cell product (~GDP) at 1\u00b0<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthdata.nasa.gov\/data\/catalog\/sedac-ciesin-sedac-lwp2-hii-ighp-2.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global Human Influence Index<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; 1km resolution. Intergrates&nbsp;population density, built-up areas, nighttime lights, land use\/land cover), coastlines, roads, railroads, navigable rivers.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Europe:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/data-and-maps\/data\/\">European Environment agency<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; tons of environmental data for Europe (including Corine land use)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Tools<\/summary>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stat.ethz.ch\/CRAN\/\">CRAN&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; The comprehensive R archive network (Swiss mirror)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/mapview\/index.html\">mapview<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; on-the-fly mapping of spatial in R (<a href=\"http:\/\/environmentalinformatics-marburg.github.io\/web-presentations\/20150723_mapView.html\">tutorial<\/a>&nbsp;)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statmethods.net\/index.html\">Quick-R<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 User-friendly guide for users of statistical packages (e.g., SAS, SPSS) who would like to transition to R<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/biomod2\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">biomod2<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 R library for ensemble forecasting of species distributions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/dismo\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dismo<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 R library for species distributon modeling (including MaxEnt)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/biomod2\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GDM<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; R library for Generalized dissimilarity modeling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/biomapper\/\">BIOMAPPER<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; A GIS-toolkit to model habitat suitability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pbil.univ-lyon1.fr\/ADE-4\/\">ADE-4<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 R library for analysis of ecological and environmental data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lib.stat.cmu.edu\/\">STATLIB<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Data, software and news from the Statistics Community<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.esri.com\/en\/\">ESRI<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 support for ArcGIS<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grass.osgeo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GRASS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/diva-gis.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DIVA-GIS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; free GIS softwares<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/colorbrewer2.org\/#type=sequential&amp;scheme=BuGn&amp;n=3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colorbrewer<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; color advice for cartography<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/marxan\/\">Marxan<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/zonationteam.github.io\/Zonation5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ZONATION<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; softwares for spatial conservation planning (e.g. design reserve systems, assess performance of existing reserves, develop multiple-use zoning plans)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/prioritizr.github.io\/prioritizr\/\">prioritizr<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;R package for solving systematic conservation prioritization problems using integer linear programming (ILP)&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/sdmvspecies\/index.html\">sdmvspecies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/virtualspecies\/index.html\">virtualspecies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; R libraries to&nbsp;create virtual species for species distribution modelling<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/keras3.posit.co\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">R interface to Keras<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;high-level neural networks API<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/maxnet\/index.html\">maxnet<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Fitting &lsquo;Maxent&rsquo; Species Distribution Models with &lsquo;glmnet&rsquo;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/ecog.03031\/full\">PaleoView<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;a tool for generating continuous climate projections spanning the last 21 000 years at regional and global scale.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/GlobalEcologyLab\/PaleoView\">github<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/remap-app.org\/remap\">remap&nbsp;<\/a>&#8211; remote ecosystem monitoring assessment pipeline&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/2041-210X.12858\/full\">zoon<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; R&nbsp;package for reproducible and shareable species distribution modelling&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wildnoteapp.com\/\">Wildnote<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; An app to collect field data<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hsdm.sourceforge.net\/\">hsdm<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; R package for estimating parameters of hierarchical Bayesian species distribution models<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iucnredlist.org\/resources\/spatialtoolsanddata\">IUCN redlist Tools and Data<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;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:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/cran.r-project.org\/web\/packages\/redlistr\/index.html\">redlistr package<\/a>&nbsp;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary>Labs, Projects &amp; Agencies<\/summary>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Labs<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsl.ch\/en\/about-wsl\/organisation\/research-units\/land-change-science\/translate-to-englisch-dynamische-makrooekologie\/\">Zimmerman\u2019s Lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(WSL) \u2013 modeling patterns and dynamics at the landscape scale<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.will.chez-alice.fr\/Research.html\">Thuiller\u2019s Lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Grenoble) \u2013 Towards eco-evolutionnary models of biodiversity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/macroecology.ku.dk\/\">Rahbek\u2019s Lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Copenhagen) \u2013 Center for Macroecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.maraujolab.eu\/\">Araujo\u2019s Lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Madrid) &#8211; Integrative Biology and Global Change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsl.ch\/en\/about-wsl\/organisation\/research-units\/biodiversity-and-conservation-biology\/spatial-evolutionary-ecology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Graham\u2019s Lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(WSL) \u2013 spatial and temporal arrangement of habitats on ecological and evolutionary patterns<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/phylo\/\">Salamin\u2019s Lab<\/a>\u00a0(UNIL) \u2013 phylogenetic and evolutionary modeling tools<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unine.ch\/lef\/sergio-rasmann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rasmann\u2019s Lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(UNINE) \u2013 ecology and evolution of plant-insect interaction<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lasig.epfl.ch\/\">LASIG<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(EPFL) &#8211; Laboratoire des Syst\u00e8me d&rsquo;Information G\u00e9ographique<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uq.edu.au\/spatialecology\">Possingham&rsquo;s lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(UQ) &#8211; Spatial Ecology Lab and ARC Center of Excellence for Environmental Decision<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcd.ie\/zoology\/research\/research-groups\/the-buckley-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buckley&rsquo;s lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Trinity College Dublin) &#8211;&nbsp;Drivers of animal and plant population processes in a rapidly changing world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cibio.up.pt\/en\/people\/details\/joao-p-honrado\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Honrado&rsquo;s lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(CIBIO, Porto) &#8211; Plants &amp; Traits &#8211; Functional Plant Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ips.unibe.ch\/research\/planteco\/index_eng.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fischer&rsquo;s lab (UNIBE)<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;basic and applied research in a wide spectrum of plant ecological disciplines<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irl.ethz.ch\/plus\">Adrienne Gr\u00eat-Regamey&rsquo;s lab (ETHZ)<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Planning of Landscape and Urban Systems<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.helsinki.fi\/en\/researchgroups\/biogeoclimate-modelling-lab\">Miska Luoto&rsquo;s lab<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;(Helsinki) &#8211; Biogeoclimate modeling lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Projects<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccs.admin.ch\/nccs\/en\/home\/climate-change-and-impacts\/schweizer-klimaszenarien-ch2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CH2025<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Climate change scenarios to be developed for Switzerland <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasflorevd.ch\/\">atlasflorevd<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Projet Atlas flore vaudoise (in French)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gmba.unibas.ch\/index\/index.htm\">GMBA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 The Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment is a network to explore the biological richness of mountains of the world<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/ppch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PPCH&nbsp;<\/a>(UNIL) &#8211; A database for Swiss permanent vegetation plots&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountaininvasions.org\/\">MIREN<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Mountain Invasion Research Network<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nceas.ucsb.edu\/\">NCEAS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/unil\/en\/home\/menuinst\/universite\/organisation-universite\/unites-et-services\/centre-de-competence-en-durabilite.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.unil.ch\/unil\/en\/home\/menuinst\/universite\/organisation-universite\/unites-et-services\/centre-de-competence-en-durabilite.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Competence Centre in Sustainability (CCD) at UNIL<\/a> &#8211;  Program of UNIL to stimulate teaching and research on environmental and social sustainability<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gloria.ac.at\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">GLORIA<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.europe-aliens.org\/\">DAISIE<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantpopnet.com\/\">PLANTPOPNET<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; &nbsp;Plantago lanceolata: A Spatially Distributed Model System for Population Ecology<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/regional_policy\/policy\/cooperation\/macro-regional-strategies\/alpine_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EUSAPL<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; EU Strategy for the Alpine Region<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alpine-space.eu\/project\/alpes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AlpES<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; mapping, maintenance, management for&nbsp;Alpine Ecosystem Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/\">IPCC<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipbes.net\/assessment-reports\/eca\">IPBES<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Agencies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bafu.admin.ch\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BAFU\/OFEV<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Swiss Federal Office for the Environment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vd.ch\/djes\/dge\/dge-dirna\/dge-biodiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DGE-BIODIV<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Division biodiversity and Landscape of Canton de Vaud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisstopo.admin.ch\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Swisstopo<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Swiss Federal Office for Topography, cartographic server: <a href=\"https:\/\/map.geo.admin.ch\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/map.geo.admin.ch\/\">map.geo.admin<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfs.admin.ch\/bfs\/fr\/home.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bfs.admin.ch\/bfs\/fr\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">OFS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Swiss Federal Office for Statistics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kogis.ch\/\">COGIS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Swiss Coordination for Geo-Information and Services<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.botanica-helvetica.ch\/\">SBS<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&#8211; 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