How have people and climate change affected Earth’s past biodiversity?

This project aims to demonstrate the availability of a long-term record of biodiversity data which could be used to understand the biodiversity implications of the current climate and extinction crisis.

Data within relational database(s):

• Space, global but mainly Europe
• Time, up to one million years, most <16,000 years
• 5086 taxa (~species)
• 22 ecological variables for taxa
• > 8700 soil samples, > 200,000 fossil record entries, > 780,000 occurrences
• Sourced from >1000 publications
• Much variation in quality (temporal accuracy +/- 1 year to ~250,000 years)

See one part of the project here: https://demo.humlab.umu.se/seadecovis/