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GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

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What is GBIF?

Red-rumped agouti (Dasyprocta leporina) observed in the Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad. Photo (mirrored) via iNaturalist (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Occurrence records

Datasets

Publishing institutions

Peer-reviewed papers using data

Strengthening the Living Atlases Community of Practice

18 June 2019

KnowBR: mapping geographical variation of biodiversity survey effort

17 June 2019

2019 GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge seeks open-data innovations for biodiversity

Deadline: 1 August 2019

Data mobilization and capacity building essential to address global biodiversity crisis

6 May 2019

Establishing a national biodiversity information facility in Chile

Experiences of setting up and running a node in Latin America

Blog post: What you need to know before analyzing sequenced-based data on GBIF

26 April 2019

Solanum plastisexum sp. nov.

Solanum plastisexum, an enigmatic new bush tomato from the Australian Monsoon Tropics exhibiting breeding system fluidity

The GBIF network

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