The GBIF portal includes a range of web services that can be used by other portals and applications to directly access XML-formatted GBIF data. The services currently available include the following:

• Taxon data service
• Occurrence record data service
• Occurrence density data service
• Dataset metadata service
• Data provider metadata service
• Data network metadata service

For a more detailed description, as well as links to documentation and examples, please refer to the web services tutorial.