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Brown house snake (Boaedon fuliginosus) observed in Tokpli, Togo by Eric (toganim). Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Virtual workshop planned on "Advancing the Catalogue of the World's Natural History Collections"

Data use

Global analysis of potential marginal land resources of cassava

News

The Equator Principles encourage open access to environmental impact data through the GBIF network

Taxonomy

New species: Craspedotropis gretathunbergae

Craspedotropis gretathunbergae, a new species of Cyclophoridae (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda), discovered and described on a field course to Kuala Belalong rainforest, Brunei

Dataset update: More than 800,000 fungal records from the Danish Mycological Society

Latest update of dataset brings number of records to 805,080—including 164,224 with images

Blog

How to choose the right dataset class

If you are a (first-time) GBIF publisher and you are trying to decide which type of dataset would best fit your data, this blog post is for you.

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Publishing institutions

Peer-reviewed papers using data