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Learning materials of the GBIF.ES Workshop on “Species Distribution Modeling” available
The fourteenth edition of the GBIF.ES Workshop “Species Distribution Modeling” was held on September 4-7, 2018 in the Royal Botanic Garden-CSIC. The workshop was leaded by Blas Benito (University of Bergen) and supported by Katia Cezón (GBIF.ES), Cristina Villaverde (GBIF.ES) and Miguel Vega (GBIF.ES). 27 participants attended the course from a wide range of organizations such […]
Partners signal new alliance for biodiversity knowledge
More than 100 delegates at 2nd Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference agree need for light-touch coordination of overlapping initiatives, supporting connected solutions to answer key questions about life on Earth A global alliance to transform our understanding of biodiversity by connecting all efforts to observe, measure and model the living planet: that’s the vision shared by […]
Salvando al El Polo Norte
Para muchos de nosotros la pregunta sobre un futuro a venir en nuestro planeta es algo de extrema importancia, sin importar si somos o pertenecemos a algún grupo de protección ecológica o simplemente nos preocupamos por el futuro hábitat de nuestras descendencias, esto genera diferentes preguntas, en especial, preguntas que están conectadas a uno de […]
Mosquito Alert shares open data from citizen scientists through GBIF
Mosquito Alert, a pioneering citizen science project coordinated by three Barcelona-based research centres, has published a dataset containing more than 4,000 photo-based observations of the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) gathered by citizen scientists through the Mosquito Alert app. Mosquito Alert aims to monitor the spread of both the Asian tiger mosquito and a closely related species, the yellow-fever […]
Students from Madrid and Barcelona will determine the air quality through the study of lichens
Today, GBIF Spain, the Royal Botanical Garden (RJB-CSIC) of Madrid, CREAF and the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) of Barcelona have launched the LiquenCity project. The scientific team associated to this project will use the slogan “look for urban lichens and know your city quality air” to make known these organisms to roughly a thousand […]
GBIF.org surpasses 1 billion species occurrence records
GBIF.org topped 1 billion species occurrence records on 4 July 2018, thanks to a surge of datasets from the French National Inventory of Natural Heritage (l’Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel), which included this observation of a frilled anemone (Metridium dianthus) off Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a French archipelago in the northwestern Atlantic. The record for this marine invertebrate animal […]