Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborne to the 21 st century and beyond Biodiversity Informatics – GBIFs role in linking information through scientific names. David Remsen Senior Programme Officer Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) 28 October 2011
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Anchoring Biodiversity Information: From Sherborne to the 21st century and beyond
Biodiversity Informatics – GBIFs role in linking information through scientific names.
David RemsenSenior Programme OfficerGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
28 October 2011
BIODIVERSITY INFORMATICS
“All accumulated information of a species is tied to a scientific name, a name that serves as a link between what has been learned in the past and what we today add to the body of knowledge.”
PRIMARY BIODIVERSITY DATA
PRIMARY BIODIVERSITY DATA
Primary Biodiversity Databases
GBIF ISA FEDERATED NETWORK
A “network of networks”
COMMON COMMUNICATIONSREGISTRY
GLOBAL DATA INDEX
310,132,149 data records9,290 datasets
6,112,683 “names”
DATA PORTAL
DISCOVERY
ACCESS
Use of Primary Biodiversity Data
Build Provisional Species Lists
Validate range maps
Predict species distributon
Change in suitability for cultivating common bean across the world, from present to 2020, showing a global loss in suitability, especially in Africa.