GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Come for the sights, stay for the biodiversity?📸🐦 A study by Echeverri et al., analyzed patterns of tourism in #CostaRica by examining the role of species richness derived from GBIF-mediated occurrences, as well as infrastructure such as hotel density and distance to roads and water.🌊 Using a variety of sources such as eBird checklists and Flickr photos as proxies of bird watching and general tourism, the authors found that while access to roads 🚗and hotels were the most important driver, tourism is higher in places with both good access and high biodiversity. 🌺 Read more: 🔗https://lnkd.in/d42XSNYX #ScienceReview

A mass extinction event that never happened🔎🤔 🌱Botanists Calaway Dodson and Al Gentry's study published in 1991 of Western #Ecuador's Centinela mountain ridge suggested 90 endemic plants were lost to deforestation. A recent study revisited this hypothesis, 👩🔬 using GBIF-mediated data and other sources, >2,000 specimens representing 886 unique and taxonomically valid species were accumulated, finding that only one species was truly unique to Centinela and none were extinct. This study highlights the importance of digitizing and sharing biological collections to better understand plant extinction risks. 💻 🔗https://lnkd.in/dRRS76iH #DataUse #Biodiversity #Research

Next up in the #HostedPortal spotlight 🔦 is Portal Datos de Biodiversidad de Argentina—hosted by #GBIFArgentina! This portal showcases over 17 million biodiversity records generated by Argentine publishers and GBIF member institutions from around the world. 🌎 "The GBIF hosted portal programme has allowed us to once again have a window to both the academic community, institutions, and the general public. The GBIF Argentina hosted portal has enabled us to present an interface when seeking economic support for Argentina to return as a voting member of the GBIF community," said Anabela Plos, GBIF Argentina node manager. 🔗https://biodiversidad.ar/ Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales Bernardino Rivadavia

⏰Are you free on 3 April? Make sure you're registered for a twin-credible 👯event! 🌏Join the Biodiversity Digital Twin project (BioDT) and the Destination Earth Ecosystem in #Rome to engage in strategic discussions, scientific presentations and panel debates on infrastructure and data sustainability to highlight the final outcomes of the project. 🔗https://lnkd.in/dNdgAuju European Union #Biodiversity #Event

Joining the European Journal of Taxonomy, the Biodiversity Data Journal is the latest #ScientificJournal to launch a GBIF hosted portal! 🐟 This Pensoft Publishers journal is the first of many under the masthead expected to participate in the GBIF programme. ⚡ Read more: 🔗https://gbif.link/bdj Lyubomir Penev Vince Smith Disentis Roadmap

Business as usual... 🥸💼 More than 100 businesses from 21 countries are now sharing data through GBIF.org! ⭐ This equates to more than 840 datasets, 15,200 citations and 10 million occurrence records!🤯 Explore the records here: 🔗https://lnkd.in/dfwdN9GK

🔎 Calling biodiversity data practitioners in #Africa! Registrations are open for the 2025 Virtual Data Mobilization Workshop for Africa held across June - July 2025. 📌 The course is online and self-paced, with registrations closing 23:59 UTC on 6 May 2025. Get in quick- this course is limited to 30 participants. 🐊 🔗https://lnkd.in/gzbMwwMa Manambintsoa Tsiky RABETRANO Laban Musinguzi

Do you work on invasive alien 👽species (IAS)? We're looking for the input of IAS data collectors, users or curators to take part in a survey to help shape the future of IAS data standards and accessibility. This survey is hosted by the GBIF and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) task groups on IAS, with findings used to inform a public report focusing on current practices in IAS data collection, curation and use. ⭐ Learn more: 🔗https://lnkd.in/dSFWF2EE 🛸#EcologicalSpaceInvaders #InvasiveSpecies #Biodiversity #Data

New language unlocked 🔓- GBIF speaks Polish! Thanks to the efforts of more than 100 #volunteer students at Uniwersytet Warszawski / University of Warsaw, GBIF Poland has completed translations to enable Polish language to be supported across GBIF.org! 🤩 Read more: 🔗https://lnkd.in/dWSG32KJ 👀Interested in becoming a GBIF volunteer? : 🔗https://lnkd.in/g6bNEMEw

🦜 🌳 🦀 Fully open, FAIR and AI-ready biodiversity data by 2035 – this is the goal of a new roadmap signed by major natural history collections, journal publishers, global biodiversity networks, and research infrastructures including SIB.   The ‘Disentis Roadmap’ aims to extract and link biodiversity data and knowledge from an estimated 500 million pages of research publications. SIB contributed to its drafting and will support its implementation as part of an international collaboration. See more 👇🏽    Experts and organizations involved in developing the roadmap and/or as signatories include:   Robert Waterhouse, SIB Environmental Bioinformatics group Patrick Ruch, SIB Text Mining group Donat Agosti, Plazi Tim Hirsch FRSA Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew National Museum of Natural History in Paris Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) community Tim Robertson, GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility Lyubomir Penev, Pensoft Publishers Steven Dessein, Meise Botanic Garden CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum of Berlin LifeWatch ERIC Catalogue of Life   #Biodiversity #OpenData #OpenScience #LifeSciences #ResearchInfrastructres