Further reading links to supplement your studies.

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• MacArthur (1972) provides a nice background into quantitative geography and ecology.
  MacArthur, R.H. 1972. Geographical Ecology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press

Online resources

Platforms

• R
• STELLA
• NetLogo

Organismal Databases

• GBIF
• IDigBio
• TRY
• DRYAD

Landcover Databases

• The Global Land Cover Facility
• Global Land Cover Share
• The Global Rural‒Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP)
• The John Wesley Powell Center Working Group at USGS

Soils Databases

• Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD)
• Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) for Biogeochemical Dynamics

Terrain Databases

• NASA’s Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (STRM) 
• METI/NASA’s ASTER Global Digital Elevation Map (GDEM)
• USGS’s Global Multi-resolution Terrain Elevation Data, 2010 (GMTED2010)

Surface Hydrological Databases

• HydroSHEDS
• Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD)
• Global Reservoir and Dam dataset (GRanD)
• NASA’s Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP)

Biogeochemistry Databases

• Fluxnet
• Global Fertilizer and Manure dataset

Climate Databases

• PRISM
• DAYMET
• NCEP/NCAR Global Reanalysis project
• CliMod at the MVZ GIS Portal

Ocean Databases

• NASA’s Ocean Biology Processing Group
• NASA’s Physical Oceanography DAAC