New Global Population Dynamics Database website launched

After 8 years, the Global Population Dynamics Database web site has been given a facelift and been rehoused on new servers.

After 8 years, the Global Population Dynamics Database web site has been given a facelift and been rehoused on new servers.  This change was necessary to ensure that it would continue to be available and to make GPDD more reliable. It also provided an opportunity to improve the site.  The web site was rewritten and moved to new, more powerful servers, and the online database was moved to a Microsoft SQL Server.

In addition to the server performance, a number of improvements have been made to the web site - it is possible to link directly to a data set and bookmark search pages; metadata about restricted datasets can now be displayed as well as searched; users can return to the search page without being asked to register again; searching on biotope now works properly, and some errors in the database have now been corrected.

The GPDD was constructed by researchers at the NERC Centre for Population Biology, in collaboration with the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, between 1994 and 1999.  It is, by far, the largest collection of publicly available animal and plant population data in the world, and brings together over five thousand time series in one database.

For more information about the GPDD please contact the GPDD Administrator.