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Comparing Life History Patterns Across Taxa Provides Powerful Insights

w eecology.org. Data Collected. Comparing Life History Patterns Across Taxa Provides Powerful Insights. Within Broad Taxonomic Groups Mass-specific Biomass Production in Lizards ( Meiri et al 2012). And Across Taxonomic Groups Annual Biomass Production Across Plants,

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Comparing Life History Patterns Across Taxa Provides Powerful Insights

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  1. weecology.org Data Collected Comparing Life History Patterns Across Taxa Provides Powerful Insights Within Broad Taxonomic Groups Mass-specific Biomass Production in Lizards (Meiri et al 2012) And Across Taxonomic Groups Annual Biomass Production Across Plants, And Animals (Ernest et al 2003) An Amniote Life History Database to Perform Comparative Analyses with Birds, Mammals, and ReptilesNathan Myhrvold1, Elita Baldridge2, Benjamin Chan1, Dan Freeman1, S.K. Morgan Ernest21Intellectual Ventures, Bellevue WA, 2Department of Biology & Ecology Center, Utah State University But need large compilations for multiple taxonomic groups Coverage of the Nine Core Life History Parameters Taxonomic Coverage Created Life History Data for Amniotes (Birds, Mammals, Reptiles) Large On-Line Compilations (e.g. Pantheria, AnAge) Small-Large Literature Compilations (e.g. Bennett 1986, Boyer et al 2009) Species-specific Studies, Species Accounts Percent of All Species With At Least 1 Data Point Number of Species Birds Mammals Reptiles Number of Core Life History Values Number of Species In Database: 9802 out of 12924 Species of Birds 3591 out of 5419 Species of Mammals 6502 out of 9952 Species of Reptiles Taxonomy Cleaning Mammals: Wilson & Reader 2005 Birds: IOC World Bird List 2014 Reptiles: The Reptile Database Best Coverage is of Mammals and Birds Want the Data? Want To Talk About this Work? • The database is in review at Scientific Data, which will publish the metadata. • Data will be publicly available at the repository Dryad. • Will announce on the Weecology Blog (jabberwocky.weecology.org) • Poster is posted on FigShare at: • Feel free to share via whatever medium you wish. • My twitter handle is @skmorgane Data Merging Medians for multiple values Unit conversions References (in order they appear): Meiri S., J.H. Brown, R.M. Sibly. 2012, Global Ecology & Biogeography 21: 592-602, Ernest, S.K.M., B.J. Enquist, J.H. Brown, E.L. Charnov, J.F. Gillooly et al. 2003. Ecology Letters 6: 990-995, Bennett, P.M. 1986..Ph.D. Thesis U. Sussex., Boyer, A.G., J-L Cartron, J.H. Brown. 2009. Journal of Biogeography 37:47-56, Wilson, DE, and DM Reeder., eds. 2005. Mammal Species of the World, #rd edition.; IOC World Bird List 2014 (http://www.worldbirdnames.org), The Reptile Database (http://www.reptile-database.org/)

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