Summary:
- "The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is now the largest biodiversity database in the world with records of hundreds of millions of occurrences of over 1.7 million species, ranging from bacteria to blue whales.
- Institutions from over 50 countries contribute species occurrence and related data to the open-access platform, which make possible regional or global-scale analyses of data ranging from global distributions to invasive species and climate change impacts.
- As GBIF and other collaborative, open-source data bases continue to expand and mature, so will their usefulness to a greater range of scientific studies."
Link:
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/07/gbif-open-source-species-location-data-supports-global-biodiversity-analyses/
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Date tagged:
08/01/2017, 16:31
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08/01/2017, 12:31