GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Free and open access to biodiversity data

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What is GBIF? About GBIF

Marmalade hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) by David Renoult via iNaturalist. Photo licensed by CC BY-NC 4.0.

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

18 April 2018

13 April 2018

Deadline: 5 September 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?