Data submission and accessibility
The MIREN survey design is a robust and standardized field survey
protocol that provides data contributors amongst others an opportunity
to include regional data in research that addresses globally scaled
ecological questions. To be included in MIREN’s global road survey
database, regional data must be submitted to the MIREN data managers
using a standard data format. All data will be made public in the Dryad
data repository in the context of paper publications, or at the very
latest five years after the survey is undertaken (Figure 2). Any
researcher can also request the full MIREN database from MIREN data
managers for global analyses. Details regarding data accessibility and
publication, the submission of paper proposals and guidelines for
co-authorship are given in MIREN’s data-sharing agreement (see
Supporting Information S2), which can also be downloaded from the MIREN
website
(www.mountaininvasions.org).