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Open call for XIV GBIF.ES Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling
Registration period for the XIV GBIF.ES Workshop on Ecological Niche Modelling is already opened. This workshop will take place in September 4-7, 2018 in the computer room at the Royal Botanic Garden of Madrid (CSIC). This training event aims to teach participants on terms and techniques to be able to run species distribution models through the use of the R statistical application. This workshop will be conducted by Blas […]
Learning materials of the GBIF.ES Workshop on “Biodiversity Data Publication” available
The second edition of the GBIF.ES Workshop “Publication of biodiversity data in GBIF and scientific journals” was held in June 12-14, 2018 in the Royal Botanic Garden-CSIC. The workshop was focused on the following topics in order to make users familiar with the process of data publishing through GBIF: standardizing data using the Darwin Core standard, […]
Natusfera has been officially presented in the ECSA Conference 2018
From June 3-5, 2018, the Second International Conference of ECSA (European Citizen Science Association) has taken place in the Maison Communale de Plainplanais in Geneva (Switzerland), with more than 400 participants from all around the world. Felipe Castilla (GBIF.ES) presented the poster “Natusfera. A GBIF friendly citizen science platform“, in which the new developments of Natusfera were […]
Data from Natusfera now available through GBIF
Citizens contributing data through Natusfera platform (http://natusfera.gbif.es/) have added nearly 20,000 new observations to GBIF. The Natusfera Citizen Science Observation Dataset gathers research-grade observations having one of the GBIF permitted Creative Commons licenses: CC0, CC BY or CC BY-NC. It includes 19,973 observations of any taxon of any biological group anywhere in the world, although […]
Materials of the GBIF.ES Workshop on R available
The first edition of the GBIF.ES Workshop “Optimizing the use of R in research: new tools for programming, managing, and visualizing biodiversity data” was held on May 29-30, 2018 in the Royal Botanic Garden-CSIC. The workshop provided an introduction to R and RStudio, an overview on how to visualize data in R using functions like […]
With more than 15,000 observations, Madrid, Barcelona, and Cádiz are in the TOP5 European cities during the City Nature Challenge
Madrid, Barcelona, and Cádiz have uploaded to Natusfera platform almost a half of the observations registered in Europe during the City Nature Challenge (Biomaratón in Spanish). There have been two new arthropod species registered in the Iberic Peninsula. The citizen science platform Natusfera, used to register biodiversity data in the mentioned cities, was the European platform which […]