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).