Integrating past, present, and projected future biological and environmental data to facilitate innovative global change biology research

Leveraging UC Berkeley’s exceptional resources Berkeley Natural History Museums Insects (and their kin) – 6.5 Million specimens (<2.5% digitized) Fossils – 6.5 Million specimens (<5% digitized) Vertebrates – 677,000 specimens (100% digitized) Plants – 2.2 Million specimens (16% digitized) Time scale 1800spresent

Leveraging UC Berkeley’s exceptional resources Berkeley Field Stations Biological observations –Species checklists –Field notes –Photographs Microclimate sensor arrays – Over 4 million measurements – 48 variables Time scale 1900spresent

Leveraging UC Berkeley’s exceptional resources Wieslander Vegetation Type Mapping Plot data –Vegetation data for 18,000+ plots Polygon data – Dominant vegetation mapped Photographs – ~3100 black and white photos Specimens – ~22,000 specimens collected Time scale Kelly et al. 2005

Leveraging UC Berkeley’s exceptional resources Sediment Cores Climatic, floristic, entomological and fire history data from ~50 cores, including Clear Lake Time scale 130,000 yapresent

Pulling data from external sources Freely-available baselayers Climate Land cover Topography Geology Soils Fire frequency Nature reserves More biological observations Biocollections from around the State Photographs and additional observations collected by various users

Users can access data and its metadata via our Online Portal, Holos. Holos comes with built- in searching, charting, visualization and analysis tools The Data API’s open framework allows third-party developers to write their own tools. Integrating data within Holos