The Global Biodiversity
Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the Internet
Internet using web services. The data are provided by many institutions from around the world; GBIF's information architecture makes these data accessible and searchable through a single portal. Data available through the GBIF portal are primarily distribution data on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes for the world, and scientific names data. The mission of the Global Biodiversity
Biodiversity information Facility (GBIF) is to facilitate free and open access to biodiversity data worldwide to underpin sustainable development
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An international organization is an organization with an international membership, scope, or presence. There are two main types:[2] International
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International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs): non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that operate internationally. These include international non-profit organizations and worldwide companies such as the World
World Organization
Organization of the Scout Movement, International
International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières. Intergovernmental organizations, also known as international governmental organizations (IGOs): the type of organization most closely associated with the term 'international organization', these are organizations that are made up primarily of sovereign states (referred to as member states)
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The Encyclopedia of Life
Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It is compiled from existing databases and from contributions by experts and non-experts throughout the world.[2] It aims to build one "infinitely expandable" page for each species, including video, sound, images, graphics, as well as text.[3] In addition, the Encyclopedia incorporates content from the Biodiversity Heritage Library, which digitizes millions of pages of printed literature from the world's major natural history libraries. The project was initially backed by a US$50 million funding commitment, led by the MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation and the Sloan Foundation, who provided US$20 million and US$5 million, respectively
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Special
Special or specials may refer to:Contents1 Music 2 Film and television 3 Other uses 4 See alsoMusic[edit] Special
Special (album), a 1992 album by Vesta Williams "Special" (Garbage song), 1998 "Special
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An international organization is an organization with an international membership, scope, or presence. There are two main types:[2] International
International nongovernmental organizations (INGOs): non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that operate internationally. These include international non-profit organizations and worldwide companies such as the World
World Organization
Organization of the Scout Movement, International
International Committee of the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières. Intergovernmental organizations, also known as international governmental organizations (IGOs): the type of organization most closely associated with the term 'international organization', these are organizations that are made up primarily of sovereign states (referred to as member states)
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Global biodiversity
Global biodiversity is the measure of biodiversity on planet Earth
Earth and is defined as the total variability of life forms
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The Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) schema is a highly structured data exchange and access model for taxon occurrence data (specimens, observations, etc. of living organisms), i.e. primary biodiversity data. In 2006, the schema was extended, to include an 'Extension For Geosciences', to form the ABCDEFG Schema[1] and, in 2010, TDWG published a draft standard extension for DNA; ABCDDNA.[2] References[edit]^ "EFG Schema" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 2, 2012. Retrieved 8 September 2011. ^ "ABCDDNA : DNA
DNA extension for Access to Biological Collection Data". TDWG. Retrieved 30 August 2013. External links[edit]http://www.tdwg.org/activities/abcd/ http://www.codata.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070929124618/http://www.wfcc.nig.ac.jp/NEWSLETTER/newsletter36/a6.pdf the ABCD database schemaThis bioinformatics-related article is a stub
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The Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL) is an international initiative dedicated to supporting the development of DNA barcoding
DNA barcoding as a global standard for species identification.[1] CBOL's Secretariat Office is hosted by the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, DC. Barcoding was proposed in 2003 by Prof. Paul Hebert of the University of Guelph in Ontario as a way of distinguishing and identifying species with a short standardized gene sequence. Hebert proposed the 648 bases of the Folmer region of the mitochondrial gene cytochrome-C oxidase-1 as the standard barcode region. Dr. Hebert is the Director of the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario, the Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding, and the International Barcode of Life Project (iBOL), all headquartered at the University of Guelph
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A geographic information system (GIS) is a system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present spatial or geographic data
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An ecosystem can be defined as a community made up of living organisms and nonliving components such as air, water and mineral soil.[2] However, ecosystems can be defined in many ways.[3] The biotic and abiotic components interact through nutrient cycles and energy flows.[4] Ecosystems include a network of interactions among organisms, and between organisms and their environment.[5] Ecosystems can be of any size but one ecosystem has a specific, limited space.[6] Some scientists view the entire planet as one ecosystem.[7] Energy, water, nitrogen and soil minerals are other essential abiotic components of an ecosystem. The energy that flows through ecosystems comes primarily from the sun, through photosynthesis. Photosynthesis also captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Animals also play an important role in the movement of matter and energy through ecoystems. They influence the amount of plant and microbial biomass that lives in the system
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Sustainable development
Sustainable development isthe organizing principle for meeting human development goals while at the same time sustaining the ability of natural systems to provide the natural resources and ecosystem services upon which the economy and society depend. The desired result is a state of society where living conditions and resource use continue to meet human needs without undermining the integrity and stability of the natural system. Sustainable development
Sustainable development can be classified as development that meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations.While the modern concept of sustainable development is derived mostly from the 1987 Brundtland Report, it is also rooted in earlier ideas about sustainable forest management and twentieth century environmental concerns
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A web service is a service offered by an electronic device to another electronic device, communicating with each other via the World Wide Web. In a web service, the Web technology such as HTTP—originally designed for human-to-machine communication—is utilized for machine-to-machine communication, more specifically for transferring machine-readable file formats such as XML
XML and JSON. In practice, a web service typically provides an object-oriented web-based interface to a database server, utilized for example by another web server, or by a mobile app, that provides a user interface to the end user
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The Internet
Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite
Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) is a non-profit scientific and educational association that works to develop open standards for the exchange of biodiversity data, facilitating biodiversity informatics. It is affiliated with the International Union of Biological Sciences. It is best known for the Darwin Core standard for exchanging biodiversity, which has been used by the Global Biodiversity
Biodiversity Information Facility to collect millions of biological observations from museums and other organizations from around the world. TDWG was founded in 1985 as the "Taxonomic Databases Working Group";[1] the first meeting took place from September 28–30, 1985, at the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva
Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva in Geneva, Switzerland
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Biodiversity, a portmanteau of "bio" (life) and "diversity", generally refers to the variety and variability of life on Earth. According to the United Nations Environment Programme
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), biodiversity typically measures variation at the genetic, the species, and the ecosystem level.[1] Terrestrial biodiversity tends to be greater near the equator,[2] which seems to be the result of the warm climate and high primary productivity.[3] Biodiversity
Biodiversity is not distributed evenly on Earth, and is richest in the tropics
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The Atlas of Living Australia
Australia (ALA) is an online repository of information about Australian plants, animals,[1] and fungi.[2] The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation is an organisation significantly involved in the development of the ALA.[3] The Atlas of Living Australia
Australia is the Australian node of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.[3] The ALA is being use to help assess suitability of revegetation projects by determining species vulnerability to climatic and atmospheric change.[4] See also[edit]Australian Plant Name Index Encyclopedia of Life GBIFReferences[edit]^ "John La Salle, The Atlas of Living Australia". The Australian. News Limited. 8 December 2012. Retrieved 25 February 2013. ^ May, Tom W. (2011). "An overview of the fungi of Melbourne". Victorian Naturalist. 128 (5, sp. iss
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