MODIRISK: Mosquito vectors of disease, collection, monitoring and longitudinal data from Belgium by Wim Van Bortel, Veerle Versteirt, Wouter Dekoninck, Thierry Hance, Dimitri Brosens, Guy Hendrickx

“…Three different MODIRISK datasets were published in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF): the Collection dataset (the Culicidae collection of the Museum of Natural History in Brussels); the Inventory dataset (data from the MODIRISK inventory effort); and the Longitudinal dataset (experiment data used for risk assessments). …”
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The Freshwater Biodiversity Information System (FBIS) fish data: a georeferenced dataset of freshwater fishes occurring in South Africa by Mohammed Kajee, Helen F. Dallas, Aneri Swanepoel, Charles L. Griffiths, Jeremy M. Shelton

“…An 18-month historic-data collation effort resulted in the accrual of 35 955 new records of freshwater fish from South Africa spanning 194 years (1828–2022), that have since been uploaded to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Together with pre-existing GBIF records (24 861), a total of 60 837 freshwater fish records are thus now available for South Africa. …”
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Projected Shifts in Bird Distribution in India under Climate Change by Arpit Deomurari, Ajay Sharma, Dipankar Ghose, Randeep Singh

“…In this study, we demonstrated the applicability of eBird and GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), and produced national-scale forecasts to examine the possible impacts of climate change on terrestrial avifauna in India. …”
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Digitizing the Culicidae collection of Naturalis Biodiversity Center, with a special focus on the former Bonne-Wepster subcollection by Pasquale Ciliberti, Astrid Roquas, Becky Desjardins, Bibiche Berkholst, Frank Loggen, Menno Hooft, Gideon Gijswijt, Dick de Graaff

“…The specimens were provided with a unique identifier, labeled with the information from the notebooks and the data exported to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. In addition, the type specimens were photographed. …”
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Habitat suitability of subpopulations of Adansonia digitata L. in West Africa: Implications for conservation and domestication by Wouyo Atakpama, Gerard Nounagnon Gouwakinnou, Kangbéni Dimobe, Komlan Batawila, Armand Kouyema Natta, Koffi Akpagana

“…In this study, occurrence data of Adansonia digitata L., a multipurpose tree species, were collected from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility portal (1513), fieldwork (421), and other studies (195) throughout the West Africa scale. …”
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Increased Abundance Coincides with Range Expansions and Phenology Shifts: A Long-Term Case Study of Two Noctuid Moths in Sweden by Per-Eric Betzholtz, Anders Forsman, Markus Franzén

“…</i> Abundance and phenology data were gathered from three light traps in southeastern Sweden and integrated with distribution and phenology data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. In <i>M. albipuncta</i>, the distribution area expanded from 7 to 76 occupied grids (60 km²) and the abundance increased from 7 to 6136 individuals, while in <i>H. ambigua</i>, the distribution area expanded from 1 to 87 occupied grids and the abundance increased from 0 to 6937 individuals, during the course of the study. …”
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Understanding the users and uses of UK Natural History Collections by Helen Hardy, Laurence Livermore, Paul Kersey, Ken Norris, Vincent Smith

“…This study focuses on usage via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, the largest source of relevant usage data, examining 7.6 million records from twelve UK institutions. …”
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CATALOGUE OF AQUATIC MITES FROM THE MINHO RIVER (NW IBERIAN PENINSULA) by Harold Cantallo, Nuno Gomes, Carlos Antunes, Tiago Ribeiro, Maria Inês Gomes, Dimítri de Araújo Costa

“…In our review in this work, we used the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to obtain previous occurrences supplemented by an extensive literature review and the book collection Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa, among others. …”
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A dataset of sea turtle occurrences around the Taiwan coast by Daphne Hoh, Chia-Ling Fong, Huai Su, Pengyu Chen, Chia-Chen Tsai, Kelly Tseng, Melissa Liu

“…This dataset is now publicly opened in Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and available for download. …”
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Trema orientale (L.) Blume: A review of its taxonomy, traditional uses, phytochemistry, pharmacological activities and domestication potential by Yaw Appau, Paa Kwesi Gordon, Seyiram Kumordzie, Michael Odoi Kyene, Peter Atta-Adjei Jnr

“…Data were sourced from databases such as Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, Elsevier Plants of the World Online (Kew Science), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and World Flora Online (WFO), using key search terms: Trema orientale or orientalis, phytochemistry pharmacology, taxonomy, and domestication with Boolean operators to include and exclude articles for the review. …”
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A georeferenced dataset of Italian occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera by Vittoria Ferrari, Arianna Gualdi, Isabella Bertani, Diego Fontaneto, Lyudmila Kamburska, Karimullah Karimullah, Federico Marrone, Ulrike Obertegger, Giampaolo Rossetti, Rocco Tiberti, Tommaso Cancellario

“…The dataset is available through the Open Science Framework (OSF), and all the georeferenced occurrence data have been uploaded to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). …”
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A taxonomic dataset of preserved specimen occurrences of Theobroma and Herrania (Malvaceae, Byttnerioideae) stored in 2020 by Matheus Colli-Silva, James Richardson, José Pirani

“…This study aimed at compiling and describing a dataset of preserved specimen collections available in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility repository (GBIF) for Tropical Americas. …”
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Complete distribution of the genus Laevilitorina (Littorinimorpha, Littorinidae) in the Southern Hemisphere: remarks and natural history by Sebastián Rosenfeld, Claudia S. Maturana, Hamish G. Spencer, Peter Convey, Thomas Saucède, Paul Brickle, Francisco Bahamonde, Quentin Jossart, Elie Poulin, Claudio Gonzalez-Wevar

“…Here, an updated database of 21 species generated from a combination of sources is presented: 1) new field sampling data; 2) published records; 3) the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and The Atlas of Living Australia (ALA), to provide a comprehensive description of the known geographic distribution of the genus and detailed occurrences for each of the 21 species. …”
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Influence of different data cleaning solutions of point‐occurrence records on downstream macroecological diversity models by Petra Führding‐Potschkat, Holger Kreft, Stefanie M. Ickert‐Bond

“…Abstract Digital point‐occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) and other data providers enable a wide range of research in macroecology and biogeography. …”
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Rediscovery of the critically endangered Hill's horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hilli) and other new records of bat species in Rwanda by Jon Flanders, Winifred Frick, Julius Nziza, Olivier Nsengimana, Prince Kaleme, Marie Claire Dusabe, Innocent Ndikubwimana, Innocent Twizeyimana, Sospeter Kibiwot, Pierre Ntihemuka, Tina Cheng, Richard Muvunyi, Paul Webala

“…Here, we present and describe bat species occurrence data contributed to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) that we collected as part of a long-term collaborative project to rediscover this lost species. …”
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Modeling the current distribution suitability and future dynamics of Culicoides imicola under climate change scenarios by Hongyan Gao, Long Wang, Jun Ma, Xiang Gao, Jianhua Xiao, Hongbin Wang

“…Methods The occurrence records of C. imicola were mainly obtained from the published literature and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility database. The maximum entropy algorithm was used to model the current distribution suitability and future dynamics of C. imicola under climate change scenarios. …”
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Mismatch between IUCN range maps and species interactions data illustrated using the Serengeti food web by Gracielle T. Higino, Francis Banville, Gabriel Dansereau, Norma Rocio Forero Muñoz, Fredric Windsor, Timothée Poisot

“…We then used occurrence data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) to investigate where data is most lacking. …”
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Checklist of Chilean Biological Collections by Juan C. Ortiz, Jaime Pizarro-Araya, Luis E. Parra, Alicia Marticorena, Viviane Jerez

“…We focused on providing a list of the biological collections present in Chile, the public and/or private institutions to which they belong, those that have been published in the literature and those that use the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The information was obtained by consulting curators, literature, and web pages. …”
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Collating biodiversity occurrence data for conservation by Dian Spear, Nicola J. van Wilgen, Nicola J. van Wilgen, Anthony G. Rebelo, Anthony G. Rebelo, Judith M. Botha

“…We outline the need for using taxonomic backbones and standardizing biodiversity data and the utility of data from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility and other available sources in this process. …”
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Checklist of Chilean Biological Collections by Juan C. Ortiz, Jaime Pizarro-Araya, Luis E. Parra, Alicia Marticorena, Viviane Jerez

“…We focused on providing a list of the biological collections present in Chile, the public and/or private institutions to which they belong, those that have been published in the literature and those that use the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The information was obtained by consulting curators, literature, and web pages. …”
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