Bio-ORACLE: Marine data layers for ecological modellingLinking biodiversity occurrence data to the physical and biotic environment provides a framework to formulate hypotheses about the ecological processes governing spatial and temporal patterns in biodiversity, which can be useful for marine ecosystem management and conservation. Bio-ORACLE offers a user-friendly solution to accomplish this task by providing 18 global geophysical, biotic and climate layers at a common spatial resolution (5 arcmin, approximately 9.2 km at the equator) and a uniform landmask. |
Layers to download:
Data can be downloaded either as ascii or tiff raster files using the interactive download manager or the sdmpredictors package in R:
The list of published studies that use or cire Bio-ORACLE can be explorer here.