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    Occurrence snapshots

    Periodic exports of GBIF occurrence data
    Every month, GBIF takes a full occurrence snapshot, saved in different formats to ease usage. All snapshots are issued with a DOI to simplify citation, and some formats are copied to public clouds for easy use in those environments.

    Cloud-based datasets

    GBIF makes data available in the Microsoft Planetary Computer (Azure), as an Amazon AWS Open Dataset and in a Google GCS bucket and BigQuery table. When using cloud-based snapshots, we always recommend creating a Derived Dataset citation for the records that you use. When referring to the full dataset, please use the appropriate citation found below.
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    Monthly snapshot datasets

    The monthly exports of GBIF occurrence data are listed below, available in various formats. Please see the citation on each page.
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