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Ecological and Functional Traits in 99 Bird Species over a Large-Scale Gradient in Germany

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  • Swen C. Renner

    (Institute of Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, Vienna 1180, Austria
    Smithsonian Conservation Biology Center, National Zoological Park, 1500 Remount Road, Front Royal, VA 22630, USA)

  • Willem van Hoesel

    (Institute of Zoology, Department of Integrative Biology and Biodiversity Research, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, Vienna 1180, Austria)

Abstract

A gap still exists in published data on variation of morphological and ecological traits for common bird species over a large area. To diminish this knowledge gap, we report here average values of 99 bird species from three sites in Germany from the Biodiversity Exploratories on 24 ecological and functional traits. We present our own data on morphological and ecological traits of 28 common bird species and provide additional measurements for further species from published studies. This is a unique data set from live birds, which has not been published and is available neither from museum nor from any other collection in the presented coverage. Dataset: available as the supplementary file. Dataset license: CC-BY

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  • Swen C. Renner & Willem van Hoesel, 2017. "Ecological and Functional Traits in 99 Bird Species over a Large-Scale Gradient in Germany," Data, MDPI, vol. 2(2), pages 1-13, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jdataj:v:2:y:2017:i:2:p:12-:d:94646
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