DOI: 10.5061/dryad.1cv08
title: Data from: GlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms

description: How climate affects species distributions is a longstanding question
 receiving renewed interest owing to the need to predict the impacts of
 global warming on biodiversity. Is climate change forcing species to live
 near their critical thermal limits? Are these limits likely to change
 through natural selection? These and other important questions can be
 addressed with models relating geographical distributions of species with
 climate data, but inferences made with these models are highly contingent
 on non-climatic factors such as biotic interactions. Improved
 understanding of climate change effects on species will require extensive
 analysis of thermal physiological traits, but such data are scarce and
 scattered. To overcome current limitations, we created the GlobTherm
 database. The database contains experimentally derived species’ thermal
 tolerance data currently comprising over 2,000 species of terrestrial,
 freshwater, intertidal and marine multicellular algae, pl ants, fungi, and
 animals. The GlobTherm database will be maintained and curated by iDiv
 with the aim of expanding it, and enable further investigations on the
 effects of climate on the distribution of life on Earth.
description: GlobTherm, a global
 database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms,
 Excel formatThis database includes
 thermal tolerance metrics for 2,133 species of multicellular algae,
 plants, fungi, and animals in 43 classes, 203 orders and 525 families from
 both aquatic, and terrestrial realms, extracted from published studies.
 Abbreviated citations are included in the 'REF_min' and
 'REF_max' variable in the data file. For full citations, please
 see the attached workbook, "References_1_09_2017.xlsx". The data
 are available in both Excel and CSV formats in the Dryad Digital
 Repository (doi:10.5061/dryad.1cv08). Updates to the data and metadata
 will be curated through the iDiv data portal (https://idata.idiv.de/). For
 example, in the future we plan to include interspecific variation in the
 dataset, to provide multiple estimates of thermal tolerance limits for a
 given species where estimates determined using the best possible methods
 will be more highly ranked.GlobalTherm_upload_10_11_17.xlsxReferences_1_09_2017.xlsxGlobTherm, a global database on thermal tolerances for aquatic and terrestrial organisms, CSV formatThis database includes thermal tolerance metrics for 2,133 species of multicellular algae, plants, fungi, and animals in 43 classes, 203 orders and 525 families from both aquatic, and terrestrial realms, extracted from published studies. Abbreviated citations are included in the 'REF_min' and 'REF_max' variable in the data file. For full citations, please see the attached workbook, "References_1_09_2017.xlsx". The data are available in both Excel and CSV formats in the Dryad Digital Repository (doi:10.5061/dryad.1cv08). Updates to the data and metadata will be curated through the iDiv data portal (https://idata.idiv.de/). For example, in the future we plan to include interspecific variation in the dataset, to provide multiple estimates of thermal tolerance limits for a given species where estimates determined using the best possible methods will be more highly ranked.GlobalTherm_upload_02_11_17.csvReferences_1_09_2017.xlsx