COMADRE: a global data base of animal demography

• Published in: The Journal of animal ecology Vol. 85; no. 2; pp. 371 - 384
• Main Authors: Salguero‐Gómez, Roberto, Jones, Owen R, Archer, C. Ruth, Bein, Christoph, Buhr, Hendrik, Farack, Claudia, Gottschalk, Fränce, Hartmann, Alexander, Henning, Anne, Hoppe, Gabriel, Römer, Gesa, Ruoff, Tara, Sommer, Veronika, Wille, Julia, Voigt, Jakob, Zeh, Stefan, Vieregg, Dirk, Buckley, Yvonne M, Che‐Castaldo, Judy, Hodgson, David, Scheuerlein, Alexander, Caswell, Hal, Vaupel, James W, Coulson, Tim
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Blackwell Scientific Publ 01.03.2016; John Wiley & Sons Ltd; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley and Sons Inc
• Subjects: animal population ecology; Animal populations; Animals; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Caenorhabditis elegans; comparative approach; conservation status; Databases, Factual; Demography; Ecology; Ecology - methods; ecoregions; extinction; Homo sapiens; life history; Loxodonta africana; matrix population model; migratory behavior; Models, Biological; open‐data; population dynamics; population growth rate (λ); reproduction; Review; taxonomy; Africa; animal population ecology; comparative approach; population growth rate (λ); open-data; matrix population model

The open‐data scientific philosophy is being widely adopted and proving to promote considerable progress in ecology and evolution. Open‐data global data bases now exist on animal migration, species distribution, conservation status, etc. However, a gap exists for data on population dynamics spanning...