GBIF Resources

Für alle in Mitteleuropa vorhandenen Pflanzenarten sind in dem Datensatz möglichst folgende Angaben zusammengestellt: 1. die ökologischen Zeigerwerte nach Ellenberg (1979), verändert entsprechend der jüngsten Auflage (Ellenberg et al.2001), und nach Wirth (brieflich), 2. die Lebens– oder Wuchsform, bei Flechten auch das Substrat.

Das ökologische Verhalten gegenüber einem bestimmten Standortfaktor ist in der Regel durch eine Ziffer von 1 bis 9 ausgedrückt. Eine 0 wird nur bei…

Survey of fish species in Berlin based on catch data from river lakes, streams & standing bodies of water of the Berlin Fishing Agency from the years 1993, 2003, 2013.
Die Daten zeigen den Wissensstand der Fischbesiedelung Berliner Gewässer bis einschließlich Dezember 2013 im Überblick. Nach 2003 wurde die Fischbestandserfassung in den Berliner Gewässern konsequent fortgeführt. Zwischen 2003 und 2013 wurden zahlreiche Erfassungsdaten aktualisiert und neue Gewässer, insbesondere kleiner…

The IOC World Bird List is an open access resource of the international community of ornithologists.

"Prokaryotic Nomenclature up-to-date" is a compilation of all names of Bacteria and Archaea which have been validly published according to the Bacteriological Code since 1. Jan. 1980, and nomenclatural changes which have been validly published since. It will be updated with the publication of each new issue of the Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. (IJSEM). "Prokaryotic Nomenclature up-to-date" is published by the Leibniz-Institut DSMZ - Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH.

Aves - A Taxonomy in Flux Version 2.87: June 02 2013 There are big changes underway in bird taxonomy. You've probably noticed that the checklist is always changing. Suddenly the ducks have replaced the loons in front of the NGS guide. Not too long ago the shrikes and vireos were next to the warblers, now they're next to the jays. Maybe you've heard that vultures are storks, or that they're not really storks after all, or that North American tanagers are now cardinals, or that saltators are tan…

All species from the World Wildlife Fund Species Directory.

Official lists of all ICTV-approved taxa. The creation or elimination, (re)naming, and (re)assignment of a virus species, genus, (sub)family, or order are all taxonomic acts that require public scrutiny and debate, leading to formal approval by the full membership of the ICTV. In contrast, the naming of a virus isolate and its assignment to a pre-existing species are not considered taxonomic acts and therefore do not require formal ICTV approval. Instead they will typically be accomplished by …

The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 6th Edition was published and released by Cornell University Press in June 2007. The book was produced from a nearly completed manuscript left by James Clements upon his death in 2005.
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology has accepted the job of maintaining the ever-changing list of species, subspecies, English names, and approximate distributions, beginning with publication of the 6th Edition. Our procedures for accomplishing this ongoing task includ…

The IOC World Bird List is an open access resource of the international community of ornithologists. Our goal is to facilitate worldwide communication in ornithology and conservation based on an up-to-date classification of world birds and a set of English names that follows explicit guidelines for spelling and construction (Gill & Wright 2006). To keep up with the active industry of taxonomic revisions, the IOC editorial team and advisors update the web-based list quarterly. The updates inc…

The Global Invasive Species Database is a free, online searchable source of information about species that negatively impact biodiversity. The GISD aims to increase public awareness about invasive species and to facilitate effective prevention and management activities by disseminating specialist’s knowledge and experience to a broad global audience. It focuses on invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants.

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

Parsed taxobox pages of the wikipedia dump

Parsed taxobox pages of the wikipedia dump

Species pages extracted from the $LANG Wikipedia article XML dump from $DATE. Multimedia, vernacular names and textual descriptions are extracted, but only pages with a taxobox or speciesbox template are recognized. See https://github.com/mdoering/wikipedia-dwca for details.

The Paleobiology Database is a public database of paleontological data that anyone can use, maintained by an international non-governmental group of paleontologists. Fossil occurrences from scientific publications are added to the database by our contributing members. Thanks to our membership, which includes nearly 400 scientists from over 130 institutions in 24 countries, the Paleobiology Database is able to provide scientists and the public with information about the fossil record.

The White House Subcommittee on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics has identified systematics as a research priority that is fundamental to ecosystem management and biodiversity conservation. This primary need identified by the Subcommittee requires improvements in the organization of, and access to, standardized nomenclature. ITIS (originally referred to as the Interagency Taxonomic Information System) was designed to fulfill these requirements. In the future, the ITIS will provide taxonomic …

GRIN taxonomic data provide the structure and nomenclature for accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System (NPGS), part of the National Genetic Resources Program (NGRP) of the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Agricultural Research Service (ARS). In GRIN Taxonomy for Plants all families and genera of vascular plants and over 46,000 species from throughout the world are represented, especially economic plants and their relatives. Information on scientific and common names,…

The NCBI taxonomy database is not a primary source for taxonomic or phylogenetic information. Furthermore, the database does not follow a single taxonomic treatise but rather attempts to incorporate phylogenetic and taxonomic knowledge from a variety of sources, including the published literature, web-based databases, and the advice of sequence submitters and outside taxonomy experts. Consequently, the NCBI taxonomy database is not a phylogenetic or taxonomic authority and should not be cited a…

The data in this checklist of mammal species of the world are being presented for non-commercial, personal, and collections management use only. Copying or redistributing these data in any manner for personal or corporate gain is not permitted. A list of the authors responsible for various portions of the text can be found here.

The Fauna Europaea project (EVR1-1999-20001) has been funded by the European Commission for a period of four years (1 March 2000 - 1 March 2004) within the Fifth Framework Programme (5FP). Fauna Europaea has assembled a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals. Experts in taxonomy have provided data of all species currently known in Europe. Together these data have formed a huge database, which will be accessible to ever…

American zoological writers who have published books or scientific papers during the past decade show little uniformity in their reference to larger groups of animals. Of course no zoologist wishes to be limited in the choice of names which seem to be most appropriate; no one wishes to have imposed on him terms which he is ordered to use; and none desires to have nomeclature become fixed and inflexible. Of all the rewards that Science gives to her retainers those most prized and enjoy…

The GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, often called the Nub taxonomy, is a single synthetic management classification with the goal of covering all names GBIF is dealing with. It's the taxonomic backbone that allows GBIF to integrate name based information from different resources, no matter if these are occurrence datasets, species pages, names from nomenclators or external sources like EOL, Genbank or IUCN. This backbone allows taxonomic search, browse and reporting op…