Identifying and prioritizing sites for conservation planning
A novel model uses rarity-weighted richness to prioritize sites for species representation
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Predicting potential zoonotic hosts
Using Complex Inference Networks to predict zoonotic multi-host systems
The role of climate data resolution on species distribution models
Species distribution models use climate data at varying spatial scales, but how may this impact their performance?
Shedding light on mesophotic coral ecosystems
Study presents several decades of data on Hawaiian mesophotic coral ecosystems
Modelling the distribution of the southern house mosquito
This study uses GBIF-mediated occurrences to model current and future distributions of a potential vector of several disease-causing agents
Mapping collection bias in Brazil
An analysis of species occurrences in Brazil shows collection bias across biomes and taxonomic groups
Taxonaut - comparing taxonomies graphically
A new open-source software application based on GBIF Checklist data allows graphical comparative analysis of two or more taxonomies
Modelling species niches using expert-based range maps
How well do models based on range maps curated by experts perform compared to models based on real occurrences?
Mapping distribution of lichen traits
A new tool combines lichen occurrences and trait data to allow geographic trait meta-analyses
The adaptive role of seed oil content
Examing the adaptive nature of seed oil content in more than 2,500 angiosperms