GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

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Herd of impalas (Aepyceros melampus) observed in Nyagatare, Rwanda by jordivanoort. Photo via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Call for proposals: Analysis of biodiversity data needs in the post-2020 framework

News

Biodiversity Summit 2020 postponed

Data use

Relying on biodiversity science to inform art history

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Call for nominations to the 2020 GBIF Young Researchers Award

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2020 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

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Call for data papers from European Russia

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Virtual workshop: Advancing the Catalogue of the World's Natural History Collections

Taxonomy

New species: Pseudoalaocybites chimborazoi

The first discovery of the genus Pseudoalaocybites Osella, 1980 from Ecuador, with a description of a new species in an alpine ecosystem (Coleoptera, Curculionidae: Molytinae)

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