History
Inventory of PA Biodiversity Databases
Report
Executive Summary
Biodiversity
Information Form
Do you have a teaching collection of plants and/or animal
specimens?
Have you been monitoring squirrel foraging habits in an oak
forest?
Have you done plant and/or animal surveys? Long-term monitoring
projects?
Have you been watching ecological succession of algae in a
pond?
If you have been collecting this kind of information, would
you be willing to let other researchers in PA know about your
work?
If so, please go to Biodiversity
Information Form
to fill out and submit a description of the data you have
been collecting. It will be entered into the Pennsylvania
Biodiversity Partnership's "Pennsylvania Biodiversity
Data Inventory" (PBDI). PLEASE NOTE, you will NOT be
asked for access to your datasets. You will provide a DESCRIPTION
ONLY of your existing datasets--whether they are in field
notes or electronic format.
Knowing what biota and ecological communities exist within
PA will be useful in developing a comprehensive biodiversity
conservation plan in the Commonwealth. Vertebrates and vascular
plants are fairly well-known in PA. If you study organisms
not in those catefories, your information is of particular
interest. If you study small, under-represented ecological
communities in PA, this information is also very valuable.
If you do not maintain data on Pennsylvania organisms or
its ecological communities, please go to Biodiversity
Information Form
and click on "no bioidversity information to report."
It is also helpful t to know who does not study the biota
of Pennsylvania.
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