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The document outlines various open-source databases dedicated to biodiversity information, which are crucial for conservation efforts. Key databases include the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), and the Indian Biodiversity Portal, among others. These resources provide extensive data on species occurrences, marine life, and regional biodiversity, facilitating research and monitoring of ecosystems.

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The document outlines various open-source databases dedicated to biodiversity information, which are crucial for conservation efforts. Key databases include the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS), and the Indian Biodiversity Portal, among others. These resources provide extensive data on species occurrences, marine life, and regional biodiversity, facilitating research and monitoring of ecosystems.

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Practical 8

Aim: Acquaintance with open-source databases of biodiversity


Characterization, quantification and monitoring of biodiversity are the major challenges in
biodiversity conservation. There is need of a robust and quality database of the biological
diversity at species, community, ecosystem and landscape levels for identification of
vulnerable ecosystems and risk species. Several open-source databases are dedicated to
storing and sharing biodiversity information.
1. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) offers a massive collection of species
occurrence data.
2. Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) focuses on marine life.
3. Indian Biodiversity Portal, which provides information on Indian flora and fauna.
4. BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (www.barcodinglife.org) is an informatics
workbench aiding the acquisition, storage, analysis and publication of DNA barcode
records. By assembling molecular, morphological and distributional data. It aids the
assembly of records that meet the standards needed to gain BARCODE
designation in the global sequence databases.
5. Species link (https://splink.cria.org.br) speciesLink is a large-scale biodiversity
information portal that exists because of broad collaborative network of people and
institutions. It’s Reference Centre for Environmental Information: Centro de
Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA) is involved with the scientific
community of Brazil and other countries. These people work in a network to make
information about Brazilian biodiversity accessible to everyone by creating and
maintaining information systems, databases, and applications and tools that can be
accessed by anyone interested.
6. Australia’s Virtual Herbarium contains records in electronic form about specimens
of plants, algae and fungi collected around Australia. It makes this information
widely available through a portal or Internet site.
7. Tropicos is a comprehensive online botanical database, primarily focusing on plants
from the Neotropical region (Central and South America), maintained by the
Missouri Botanical Garden. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers,
botanists, and anyone interested in plant taxonomy, providing access to a vast
collection of information including scientific names, herbarium specimens, images,
and bibliographic data
8. Fish Base is a comprehensive, global information system on fin-fishes, providing a
vast amount of data on taxonomy, biology, ecology, and other aspects of fish
species
9. Fishes of Texas: The Fishes of Texas Project aims to provide reliable occurrences
of fishes from the entire extents of all the drainage basins that intersect Texas, USA.
10. CONABIO: The Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad
(English: National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity) is a
permanent inter-ministerial commission of the Federal Mexican government,
created in 1992. It has the primary purpose of coordinating, supporting and
executing activities and projects designed to foment understanding of biodiversity
within Mexico and the surrounding region.

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