Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Global Biodiversity Information Facility ( GBIF ) is an international network with the task to summarize information on biodiversity from multiple databases in one central portal. The aim of GBIF is to collect and freely available publication of information on all sorts. For the future it is planned to integrate genetic databases. GBIF is to clarify what types there has been when and where.

Organization

With 58 members in 34 countries, 194 data providers, 981 connected databases and nearly 120 million individual data which are accessible via the Internet, GBIF is now the largest biodiversity project in the world.

GBIF consists of a secretariat in Copenhagen and from more than 50 so-called data nodes. The Secretariat coordinates the work of geographically dispersed nodes and manages the central database. In each country there is at least connected to a node that has the task to forward the data on biodiversity of the country to the central database.

GBIF node in Germany

  • Bacteria and archaea ( prokaryotes, viruses, cyanobacteria ) - DSMZ, Braunschweig
  • Plants and protists ( vascular plants, mosses, algae, protists ) - IMA, Berlin
  • Fungi and lichens - BSM, Munich
  • Insects - MfN, Berlin
  • Invertebrates II (molluscs, spiders, myriapods ) - ZSM, Munich
  • Invertebrates III ( marine invertebrates, crustaceans, cnidarians, etc.) - FIS, Frankfurt
  • Vertebrates (fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals ) - ZFMK, Bonn
  • Fossils - MfN, Berlin
Species Botanische Staatssammlung München
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