DATA MANAGEMENT
We promote collaboration and accessibility of resources and data, making our research engaging and available to the public.
If you seek data that are not listed on this page, they may be available through University repositories or published directly as supplemental resources on publications. Our phylogenetic driven research can be found in databases such as GenBank and MorphoSource. We also have Ecosystem driven data publicly accessible via the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI), Dryad, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), WETFEET and Plum Island Ecosystem LTER (PIE LTER) databases.
PROJECT DATA
Nitrogen Addition Study: For five years, the members of the Wieder lab experimentally added varying amounts of nitrogen to both a bog and a fen. With increasing pollution from oil sands development activities, there is a concern that we will reach a point where atmospheric inputs are causing detrimental changes to the wetlands. We are documenting those changes in these systems and have provided valuable data that will hopefully be used to advise legislators and scientists alike. More information can be found in recent publications in Ecological Monographs and Science of the Total Environment.
Since 2009, we have been monitoring nitrogen and sulfur deposition, vegetation and water chemistry, and ecosystem responses of bogs near mining activities in the Athabasca Oil Sands Region of northern Alberta. Data is uploaded to EDI as publications become available. Access updated data through EDI by searching “Villanova Peatland Biogeochemistry Group.”
Members of the Weston lab undertake research on carbon and nitrogen cycling to better understand ecosystem response to global change, and potential feedbacks to the climate system from greenhouse gas exchange. Field work takes place in coastal systems including the Delaware River estuary, Barnegat Bay, New Jersey and Plum Island, Massachusetts. The work in Plum Island is done in collaboration with the Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE-LTER) project, an NSF-funded project on which Weston is a principal investigator.
Data can be found on the PIE LTER database.
Members of the Langley and Chapman research teams have conducted experiments in tidal marshes examining how these wetlands are repsonding to rising temperatures, seas, and nutrient loads. They measure plant growth, porewater nutrients, and soil elevation change to understand impacts on these wetland ecosystems. More Details can be found in recent publications in Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Data is updated on the SERC data repository and can be accessed from the WETFEET Project Website directly through the Data Portal.
The documentation of biodiversity is central to both the study of evolution and the conservation of life on earth. This research has been instrumental in documenting the present and past faunas of global biodiversity hotspots including India, southern Africa and New Caledonia, adding hundreds of new species, and mapping the distributions of thousands more. This data, in turn, form the basis for studies of global climate-forced extinctions. Access this data on GenBank and Morphosource.