AndBiodiversity

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Contributors

• Parfait Gasana is an economics-trained data and research analyst from the Chicago area with passionate interests in public infrastructure, energy, environment, empirical methods, and data analytics. Active on GitHub, Gitlab, and StackOverflow communities, he is also an avid reader of global environment news and creates environment-themed data projects usually in R, Python, and SQL databases.

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Global

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility

  An international network and data infrastructure funded by the world’s governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth

• Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool

  The world’s most authoritative biodiversity data for your world-shaping decisions

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

  Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

• IPBES: Modelling impacts of drivers on biodiversity and ecosystems

  Primer on models of biodiversity and ecosystem function with additional resources

• IPCC: Data Distribution Centre

  The DDC provides a transparent, traceable, stable and assessable archive for the climate, socio-economic and environmental data and scenarios used in the reports and key figures produced by the IPCC.

• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

  The most comprehensive information source on the global extinction risk status of animal, fungus and plant species

• Map of Life

  Map of Life assembles and integrates different sources of data describing species distributions worldwide. These data include expert species range maps, species occurrence points, ecoregions, and protected areas from providers like IUCN, WWF, GBIF, and more.

• NASA Earth Data: Biological Diversity and Ecological Forecasting

  NASA Earth observation data are a key component of research into the causes behind changes in biodiversity and the impacts of these changes.

• Species+

  Species+, developed by UNEP-WCMC and the CITES Secretariat, provides a centralised portal for accessing key information on species of global concern to assist Parties with implementing CITES, CMS and other multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs).

• UN Biodiversity Lab

  Provides access to global spatial data to generate insight and impact for conservation and sustainable development

• Vertnet

  NSF-funded collaborative project that makes biodiversity data free and available on the web, VertNet is a tool designed to help people discover, capture, and publish biodiversity data.

• World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)

  Editorial management system controlled by taxonomic and thematic experts that provides an authoritative and comprehensive list of names of marine organisms.

• York University Ecological Footprint Initiative & Global Footprint Network

  Data materials and outputs assessing national footprint and biocapacity accounts across the world

Regional

• AADC: Antarctic Biodiversity Database

  Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) has developed a terrestrial biodiversity database that captures all recorded species observations and their locations from the Antarctic and subantarctic.

• Atlas of Living Australia

  Open Access to Australia’s biodiversity data

• NatureServe Explorer

  The definitive source for information on rare and endangered species and ecosystems in the Americas.

• NBN Atlas

  UK’s largest collection of biodiversity information

• NOAA: DIVER

  The DIVER (Data Integration, Visualization, Exploration, and Reporting) tool was developed by NOAA to support these natural resource damage assessment (NRDA) efforts.

• USA EPA: Ecoregions Maps

  Continental and conterminous US ecoregions maps and GIS datasets for spatial analysis

Plants

• BGCI: ThreatSearch Database

  The most comprehensive database of conservation assessments of plants

• Kew: Plants of the World Online

  An international collaborative programme that has as a primary aim to make available digitized data of the world’s flora gathered from the past 250 years of botanical exploration and research

• World Flora Online

  Global overview of the diversity of plant species

• World Agroforestry: Resource Centre

  Resource platform supporting the World Agroforestry research work including applications, databases, manual, models, portals, toolkits, tools, and websites.

Animals

• AmphibiaWeb

  Ongoing collaboration between researchers, citizen scientists, and students around the world to synthesize and share information about amphibians to enable research, education, and conservation.

• AntWeb

  AntWeb is the world’s largest online database of images, specimen records, and natural history information on ants.

• AviBase

  Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 58 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information for 20,000 regions, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more.

• BirdLife International: Data Zone

  Web portal for case studies, Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs), country profiles, and case studies regarding bird species.

• FishBase

  Global biodiversity information system on fishes, covering >35,000 fish species compiled from >59,200 references in partnership with 2,480 collaborators, >325,700 common names and >61,700 pictures.

• WWF: Living Planet Index

  Dataset contains time-series of population abundance data for vertebrate species spanning years between 1970 and 2021.

Other

• AlgaeBase

  Global algal database of taxonomic, nomenclatural and distributional information.

• GlobalFungi Database

  Validated collection of published data on the composition of soil fungal communities in terrestrial environments including soil and plant-associated habitats and made them publicly accessible through a user interface

Land

• WWF Terrestrial Ecoregions Of The World (Biomes) in ArcGIS

  ArcGIS app to explore the world’s 800+ terrestial ecoregions classified in 14 different biome types

Ocean

• Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)

  Global open-access data and information clearing-house on marine biodiversity for science, conservation and sustainable

IPBES - Diverse values and valuation of nature Assessment

Greenpeace: Biodiversity loss from land use

OECD: The Impact of Nitrogen Pollution

Royal Society: Why is Biodiversity Important?

UNCCD: Desertification

World Bank: Biodiversity: Putting Nature at the Core of Development Efforts

WWF: Untangled: Biodiversity Loss