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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.
Some species-focused databases attempt to compile comprehensive data about particular species , while others focus on particular species attributes, such as checklists of species in a given area (FEOW) or the conservation status of species (CITES or IUCN Red List). Nomenclators act as summaries of taxonomic revisions and set a key between ...
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.
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]
For fossil species, exact or even approximate numbers are harder to find; Raup, 1986 [15] includes data based on a compilation of 250,000 fossil species so the true number is undoubtedly somewhat higher than this. The number of described species is increasing by around 18,000–19,000 extant, and approaching 2,000 fossil species each year, as ...
The WDPA uses the IUCN's definition of a protected area as the main criteria for entries to be included in the database. The database contains comprehensive information on the different types of protected areas ranging from those strictly protected for conservation purposes to those where sustainable use of natural resources is allowed; and includes government, co-managed, private and ...
ZIMS project was a large global collaboration with 600 people contributing under the leadership of Nate Flesness, Executive Director of Species360 (1979–2009), [3] and Hassan Syed, CIO of Species360 (2003–2010). [4] The ZIMS database contains information on 22,000 species, 10 million animals, and 82 million medical records. [2]