GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

Occurrences Species Datasets Publishers Resources

What is GBIF? About GBIF

Calliandra foliolosa by P. Acevedo via the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.

Learn more about the number of species covered by data in GBIF.org.

9 May 2018

4 May 2018

18 April 2018

Deadline: 15 June 2018

Dozens of countries and organizations working together to make species data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable.

A data paper is a peer reviewed document describing a dataset, published in a peer reviewed journal.

Current priorities for guiding investment and effort to digitize and mobilize biodiversity data

What is sampling-event data and why is it important?