Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Publicly available

Accessibility

Publicly available

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments that provides free and open access to biodiversity data.

Dataset Location: GBIF

Site Location: Global

Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes

Timespan: 1700s - Present**
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Data collected: species id, location

Conditions for use: GBIF is an open access facility. GBIF contributors are encouraged to use a Creative Commons Zero license, or otherwise CC-BY and CC-BY-NA. GBIF data sharing and use should be clearly attributed.

For more details regarding the data use policy - http://www.gbif.org/terms/licences/data-use

Citation/ Distributing Author: Users should cite the data in accordance with the ‘dataset citation provided by the publisher’ (As per Data Use Policy).**
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Best Practices: http://www.gbif.org/usingdata/methods*
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Supplemental resources:

Publications from GBIF users - http://www.mendeley.com/groups/1068301/gbif-public-library/

Data Applications - http://www.gbif.org/usingdata/dataapplications