Data

Browse and get data:

All data stored in the EPD are publicly available and free to use. Any use of data from the EPD should cite the original publications whenever possible and also acknowledge the EPD database. For instance: “Data were obtained from the Neotoma Paleoecology Database (http://www.neotomadb.org) and its constituent database(s) [list here].  The work of data contributors, data stewards, and the Neotoma community is gratefully acknowledged.“.

In no circumstances should authorship be attributed to data contributors, individually or collectively, without their explicit consent. For more details concerning the data-sharing policy please refer to the Data Policy of the EPD.

Browse data:

The interactive NeotomaExplorer App allows multi-level queries (e.g. search by site name, taxon name, age ranges, name of investigator(s)) for all data stored in the Neotoma Database, thus including all of the EPD data sets.

GET Data:

Neotoma offers users a variety of Apps for exploring, downloading, analyzing, and viewing data (see). Users who wish to download a full copy of EPD’s relational database directly to their local computers, database snapshots and documentation are available through Neotoma here. The last EPD-only archived snapshot that documents the status quo prior to the transfer of the database to Neotoma is available, too (EPD-2017-10-31-Paradox, EPD-2017-10-31-Postgres, EPD-MSAccess-2017-10-31) along with the documentation of the relational database structure.

Other data:

EPD synonym and hierarchy (xls file format), compiled based on the taxonomy of the EPD-2015 version: EPD_P_VARS_high3. More recently developed harmonization tables can be accessed here and here.

Contribute data:

New data are accepted from contributors and added to the database continuously. Users of the database can help improve the database by informing the Database Manager of any errors they find in the data. For questions or to report errors or contribute corrections, especially with regard to data, please contact the EPD Database Manager.

If you would like to contribute data or have questions or corrections, please contact the EPD Data Manager:

Michelle Leydet (IMBE, Aix-Marseille University)
IMBE, Aix-Marseille University, Bâtiment Villemin
Europole de l’Arbois – BP 80
F13545 Aix-en-Provence cedex 04
FRANCE
E-mail: michelle.leydet@univ-amu.fr
(0033) 04 42 908 458

Distribution of EPD sites:

To view EPD sites in NeotomaExplorer

Status on 08/02/2025