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Table 5.1 ( continued ) Palaeoecological databases, expanded from Brewer et al. (2012)

Database Information and use URL

Fossil Works
Paleontology Database

Tools on the site can generate
paleomaps, data summary
tables, lists of common taxa, first
appearances, diversity curves,
ecological statistics, time scale
confidence intervals, stratigraphic
confidence intervals.

<http://fossilworks.org/>

Global Charcoal Database <http://www.gpwg.org/>

International Tree Ring DB Tree ring records Global Last two

millennia

<http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/
paleo/treering.html>

International Tree Ring
Database

MOLTEN Diatoms in the Baltic <http://craticula.ncl.ac.uk/

Molten/jsp/>

Neogene of the Old World Mammal fossils Eurasia <http://www.helsinki.i/science/

now>

Neotoma Paleoecology
database

Integration, synthesis, and
understanding of the palaeo-record,
and it promotes information
sharing and collaboration

<http://www.neotomadb.org/>

NOAA Palaeoclimate Palaeoclimate data <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

paleo>

Palaeoclimate modelling
Intercomparison Project
(PMIP)

Paleoclimate simulations from
last glacial maximum to present

<http://pmip.lsce.ipsl.fr/>

Paleobiology Database All fossil records Global 542 Ma

to present

<http://paleodb.org>

Paleontology portal All fossils <http://www.paleoportal.org/>

Pangaea Paleoenvironmental data

Global 1 Ma to present

<http://www.pangaea.de/>

Plant Macrofossil Database <http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/

paleo/plantmacros.html>

WODAN Archaeological wood and

charcoal database

<http://www.wodancharcoal.ie/>

ka, thousand years ago; Ma, million years ago.