The fundamental first step for designing and building a biodiversity data set is to survey and compile past and present biodiversity information.
To tally past populations, researchers traditionally relied on the sometimes spotty whaling logbooks compiled over the past few centuries.
The table below contains some data compiled from the past 11 presidential elections — 1968 through 2008 — which is when the polling becomes more robust in our database.
"This new evidence compiled from the past paired with our model for predicting future climate indicates that 'glacial' is anything but slow.
Arthur Cunliffe, the president and registrar of the Musical Box Society of Great Britain, reports that in the registry of more than 10,000 music boxes compiled over the past 30 years, only 13 are listed as playing Chinese melodies.
Indeed, it wasn't until a new State constitution was drafted in 1844 that Catholics were allowed to run for public office, according to "New Jersey: A Guide to Its Present and Past," compiled by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration, 1936.
Pollen, phytolith and charcoal records from the archaeological wetland site of Kuk Swamp, Wahgi Valley, Papua New Guinea spanning the period from <20,000 to 270 cal BP are compiled to reconstruct past vegetation and plant exploitation during the earliest to late phases of agricultural development.
The Peoples Choicee feature and merchant ratings have been compiled over the past seven months.
The present study is aimed at to compile the past observations on coefficient of discharge for side rectangular sharp crested weir, supplement them with new experimental results and reanalysing resulting data bases with a view towards seeing if better prediction are possible.
The guest list seemed to have been compiled by two Plimptons, past and present.
