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What is GBIF?

Candle sponge (Aplysina fistularis) observed off the coast of Fitts Village, Barbados by julian_walcott. 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: Phyllium gardabagusi

Notes on the leaf insects of the genus Phyllium of Sumatra and Java, Indonesia, including the description of two new species with purple coxae (Phasmatodea, Phylliidae)

Data

New dataset: MacFadden Herbarium (MACF), California State University Fullerton

Named after botanist Fay A. MacFadden, who sold her extensive collection of plants to the university just prior to her death in 1964.

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