Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ( GBIF ) is an international network with the task of compiling information on biodiversity from numerous databases in a central portal . The aim of GBIF is the collection and freely accessible publication of information on all species . It is planned to integrate genetic databases in the future .
organization
With 93 members in 54 countries, 811 data providers and over 649 million individual data sets from more than 32,000 data sets that are accessible via the Internet , GBIF is today the largest biodiversity data project in the world (as of May 2016).
GBIF consists of a secretariat in Copenhagen and 90 so-called data nodes. The secretariat coordinates the work of the geographically widely dispersed nodes and manages the central database. In every connected country there is at least one node that has the task of forwarding the biodiversity data of the country to the central database. In addition to the national data nodes, there are also associated GBIF participants, mainly national or supranational organizations.
GBIF nodes in Germany
- Bacteria and archaea (prokaryotes, viruses, cyanobacteria) - German collection of microorganisms and cell cultures , Braunschweig
- Plants and protists (vascular plants, mosses, algae, protists) - Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem , Berlin
- Mushrooms and lichens - Botanical State Collection , Munich
- Insects - Museum for Natural History (MfN), Berlin
- Invertebrates II (molluscs, spiders, myriapods) - Zoological State Collection Munich , Munich
- Invertebrates III and plants (marine invertebrates, crabs, cnidarians, etc.) - Senckenberg Research Institute , Frankfurt
- Vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) - Museum Koenig (Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, ZFMK), Bonn
- Fossils - MfN, Berlin
- Thematic network soil zoology - Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde (Görlitz) , Görlitz
GBIF nodes in other countries (selection)
- Atlas of Living Australia ; Plants, animals and mushrooms of Australia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Members list () ( Memento of the original from April 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Data provider (publisher) (http://www.gbif.org/publisher/search)
- ↑ List of available individual data sets (http://www.gbif.org/resources/)
- ↑ Datasets (http://www.gbif.org/dataset)
