Accessing and downloading species information

Data Use Club practical session - 16 May 2024

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Illustration of Volvox globator L from a Handy book to the collection and preparation of freshwater and marine algae, diatoms, demids, fungi, lichens, mosses by Johann Nave. London, 1867. Available via the Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Many users come to GBIF.org in order to access occurrence records (the observation or collection of a specimen at a given time and place). They can also access information about species: their scientific names, taxonomy, and associated data like vernacular names or whether they are invasive in a given country.

This practical session focused on accessing and downloading information about taxa. The first part focused on the data from GBIF with an overview of what is available on the website and what can be accessed via the API. The second part focused on accessing data from ChecklistBank.

We encourage you to check our previous Data Use Club webinars on the GBIF Backbone taxonomy and our introduction to the GBIF API.

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