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GBIF and climate change؜؜؜

GBIF mediated-data is an essential input for understanding the impacts of climate change on biodiversity, including setting priorities and creating protection strategies

bg-climate-1 — Visual composition developed for the GBIF and climate video, 2022.

How might we expect the distribution of the world’s species to shift as a result of climate change? What impact will these changes have on landscapes, oceans and ecological relationships?

Researchers investigating climate impacts regularly turn to GBIF for data about where species occurred in the past and where they are now. Combining it with key climatic and environmental layers, they produce the models that reveal the interactions between climate change and biodiversity and identify the species at greatest risk from ongoing and future disruptions.

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Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services

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Global warming reshuffling marine plankton communities

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Climate change threatening medicinal plants of Indonesia

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If corals go extinct, half the world's tropical fish may follow

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Farming seaweed to feed, power and save the planet

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Climate change and fungal pathogens threaten global tea production

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Urban greenery facing climate risks

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Global decline in wild bee diversity

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

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