There is a great R package that provides one-stop-shop support for the query, download, and use of WorldClim datasets: http://www.rforge.net/doc/packages/climates/html/bioclim.html
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Martin Koechy <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Rob, > > did you consider WorldClim and BioClim? These are rasterized climate data for > the globe; Then you would still have to average by ecoregion. You could get > that from FAO and use a GIS. > > http://www.worldclim.org/bioclim, > http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=1007 > > Regards, > Martin > > Am 2012-09-13 um 13:03 schrieb Salguero-Gomez, Roberto: > >> Dear ecologgers, >> >> Some colleagues and I are carrying out a comparative demographic analyses >> with hundreds of plant species and are interested in correlating our >> findings with abiotic factors such as mean annual temperature and >> precipitation, frequency of disturbance, or degree of abiotic stochasticity. >> Unfortunately we do not have access to these type of data for the study >> sites where the data in our database was censused. Instead, we have >> classified those sites following Olson et al. BioSci 2001's ecoregions*. >> We've tried to find a publication that offers global values for P, T, degree >> of disturbance, degree of stochasticity, etc at this ecoregion or similar >> classification level but have not succeeded. We would very much appreciate >> if some ecologger could suggest some references. My email contact is >> salguero AT demogr.mpg.de. >> >> Many thanks in advance! >> Rob et al. >> >> *Olson's ecoregions are: >> - Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forest >> - Tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forest >> - Tropical and subtropical coniferous forest >> - Temperate broadleaf and mixed forest >> - Temperate coniferous forest >> - Boreal forest/Taiga >> - Tropical and subtropical grassland, savanna, and shrubland >> - Temperate grassland, savanna and shrubland >> - Flooded grassland and savanna >> - Tundra >> - Mediterranean forest, woodland and scrub >> - Desert and xeric shrubland >> - Mangrove >> >> -- >> >> "Aliud iter ad prosperitatem nos est: id est omnibus rebus vincere" >> .:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:. >> Rob Salguero-Gómez, PhD >> Postdoctoral fellow >> Address: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, room 310 >> Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1. 18057 Rostock, Germany >> Office phone: +49 (0) 381.2081-267 (ext. 236) >> Fax: +49 (0) 381.2081-567 >> Email: [email protected] >> Skype: robertosalguerogomez >> Website: http://sites.google.com/site/RobResearchSite/ >> > > -------| http://sci.martinkoechy.de | [email protected] |--------- > Dr. Martin Köchy (Koechy) > Telefon: +49-531-596-5324 * Telefax: +49-531-596-5399 > vCard: http://sci.martinkoechy.de/Koechy.vcf > > Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut > -Bundesforschungsinstitut für Ländliche Räume, Wald und Fischerei- > Institut für Marktanalyse und Agrarhandelspolitik > > Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute > -Federal Research Institute for Rural Areas, Forestry and Fisheries- > Institute for Market Analysis and Agricultural Trade Policy > > vTI-MA * Bundesallee 50 * 38116 Braunschweig * GERMANY > Telefon: +49-531-596-5324 * Telefax: +49-531-596-5399 > http://www.vti.bund.de/de/startseite/institute/ma.html > > --------------------------\ Projects /----------------------------------- > MACSUR: http://www.macsur.eu > GLOWA Jordan River: http://www.glowa-jordan-river.de > COCOS: http://www.cocos-carbon.org -- "You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being ... Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues." -- Richard Dawkins
