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Weecology Script Sprint October 2014
Ethan White edited this page Mar 8, 2015
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- Fork the retriever repository. There's a Fork button in the top right hand corner of the screen when you visit https://github.com/weecology/retriever
- Read the web page on how to develop new scripts: http://ecodataretriever.org/scripting.html. It should only take you a couple of minutes.
- Bring a laptop if you have one. This will let us all work in the same room so that I can answer questions and check scripts more quickly.
- Propose datasets to add. Given the short amount of time, relatively simple datasets are probably best. But if there's a really great more complicated dataset that you think it would be worth getting a start on that's good too.
- Host range, host ecology, and distribution of more than 11800 fish parasite species
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/045/
- Easy: one table, needs header improvements to be maximally useful
- Twenty years tree demography in an undisturbed Dipterocarp permanent sample plot at Uppangala, Western Ghats of India
- Antarctic Site Inventory breeding bird survey data, 1994–2013
- Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E095/178/
- Nice macroecology dataset
- Fairly easy
- One hundred and six years of population and community dynamics of Sonoran Desert Laboratory perennials
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/083/
- Awesome long-term dataset
- Fairly easy: Lots of tables
- A compendium of cell and natural unit biovolumes for >1200 freshwater phytoplankton species
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E095/257/
- Fairly easy
- Ten years of abundance data within a spatial population network of the alpine butterfly, Parnassius smintheus
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E095/258/
- Fairly easy
- Cover, density, and demographics of shortgrass steppe plants mapped 1997–2010 in permanent grazed and ungrazed quadrats
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/128/
- Fairly easy
- Fourteen years of mapped, permanent quadrats in a northern mixed prairie
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E092/143/
- Fairly easy
- Long-term monitoring of mammals in the face of biotic and abiotic influences at a semiarid site in north-central Chile
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/084/
- Awesome long-term dataset, Portal related dataset
- Moderate: Multiple tables, some cross-tab structure
- Local landscape composition and configuration around North American Breeding Bird Survey routes
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E093/215/
- Nice complement to BBS
- Moderate
- Plant and small-mammal responses to large-herbivore exclusion in an African savanna: five years of the UHURU experiment
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E095/064/
- Really valuable looking dataset
- Moderate: lots of tables, some with cross-validation issues
- Marine microplankton diversity database
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/149/
- Promising macroecology dataset
- Moderate: Table3 is cross-tab w/so many columns it will take some work to script
- Annual tree growth, mortality, physical condition, and microsite in an old-growth tropical rain forest, 1983–2010
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E093/019/
- Awesome long-term dataset
- Moderate: lots of cross-tab tables. mostly just time consuming
- Initial census, woody seedling, seed rain, and stand structure data for the SCBI SIGEO Large Forest Dynamics Plot
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E094/195/
- big plot forest data, very valuable
- Hard, requires some Python to handle the zip file, lots of tables
- Long-term stem inventory data from tropical rain forest plots in Australia
- http://esapubs.org/archive/ecol/E095/209/
- Nice long-term stem dataset
- Hard (requires some use of Python)
- Global Wood Density Database
- http://datadryad.org/resource/doi:10.5061/dryad.234
- Super valuable dataset
- Very hard (multi-sheet Excel spreadsheet)