Synthetic datasets and community tools for the rapid testing of ecological hypotheses

(1) Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, 90 Avenue Vincent d’Indy, Montréal, QC, CAN, H2V3S9 (2) Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, 1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montréal, QC, CAN, H3A1B1 (3) Université du Québec à Rimouski, Département de Biologie, 300 Allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, QC, CAN, G5L3A1 (4) Memorial University of Newfoundland, Department of Biology, 232 Elizabeth Ave, St. John’s, NL, CAN, A1B3X9 (5) Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA (6) School for Environmental and Forest Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA (7) University of Toronto, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, ON, CAN, M5S3G5 (8) University of Florida, Department of Wildlife, Ecology & Conservation, Gainseville, FL, USA (9) Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand (10) Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2, Madrid 28006, España