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Global Ecosystems Database (GED)

  • Contributed research datasets
  • Geographic integration
  • Intercomparison capability
  • Improved methods for ecological analysis
  • Improved data quality and usability
  • Data rescue, archive, and publication
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The Global Ecosystems Database (GED) was initiated in 1990 as an Interagency project between the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) and the EPA Environmental Research Laboratory in Corvallis, Oregon (ERL-C) to support the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The purpose of the project is to build through researcher contributions, a geographically integrated database with high quality metadata for characterizing and modeling ecosystem phenomena. The database, available on CD-ROM and on-line, currently contains over 30 global and regional datasets of multiple environmental and ecological factors. It is an on-going data integration and publishing effort that is currently working on its third database release.