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A Global Species Database (GSD) is a digital catalog of organisms often defined around a conservation purpose for the organisms of interest. [1] GSDs attempt to be globally inclusive of species within their inclusion parameters versus local species databases.
The Catalogue of Life is a special case as it is a meta-database of about 150 specialized "global species databases" (GSDs) that have collected the names and other information on (almost) all described and thus "known" species.
Avibase – the World Bird Database [4] Birds, distribution, taxonomy X Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 27 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
100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species is a list of invasive species compiled in 2000 from the Global Invasive Species Database, a database of invasive species around the world. [1] [2] The database is run by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The ISSG acknowledges ...
The Global Invasive Species Database is a database of invasive species around the world [1] run by the Invasive Species Specialist Group (ISSG) of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. [2] It publishes the list 100 of the World's Worst Invasive Alien Species. [3]
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet using web services. [1] The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a ...
As of 2019, marine species have the best coverage, including sea-grasses. [3] As of 2014 there were nearly 17,000 images, and the database was being used by 2,000–3,000 individual visitors each day. [2] As of 2023, there were about 170,000 species and infraspecies in AlgaeBase. [1]
The Global Invasive Species Information Network (GISIN) is a web-based network of data providers including government, non-government, non-profit, educational, and other organizations that agree to work together to provide increased access to data and information on invasive species around the world.