Authors
John W Williams, Eric C Grimm, Jessica L Blois, Donald F Charles, Edward B Davis, Simon J Goring, Russell W Graham, Alison J Smith, Michael Anderson, Joaquin Arroyo-Cabrales, Allan C Ashworth, Julio L Betancourt, Brian W Bills, Robert K Booth, Philip I Buckland, B Brandon Curry, Thomas Giesecke, Stephen T Jackson, Claudio Latorre, Jonathan Nichols, Timshel Purdum, Robert E Roth, Michael Stryker, Hikaru Takahara
Publication date
2018/1
Journal
Quaternary Research
Volume
89
Issue
1
Pages
156-177
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Description
The Neotoma Paleoecology Database is a community-curated data resource that supports interdisciplinary global change research by enabling broad-scale studies of taxon and community diversity, distributions, and dynamics during the large environmental changes of the past. By consolidating many kinds of data into a common repository, Neotoma lowers costs of paleodata management, makes paleoecological data openly available, and offers a high-quality, curated resource. Neotoma’s distributed scientific governance model is flexible and scalable, with many open pathways for participation by new members, data contributors, stewards, and research communities. The Neotoma data model supports, or can be extended to support, any kind of paleoecological or paleoenvironmental data from sedimentary archives. Data additions to Neotoma are growing and now include >3.8 million observations, >17,000 …
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