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Screenshot of Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Mapping and Analysis Portal Application at the map and validation step of performing a species richness analysis

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posted on 2011-12-31, 09:54 authored by Robert P Guralnick, Andrew W Hill, Meredith Lane

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Taken from "Towards a collaborative, global infrastructure for biodiversity assessment"

Ecology Letters 2007;10(8):663-672.

Published online Jan 2007

PMCID:PMC2040220.

In the previous step, a region of southern Africa was selected and searched for two mammal groups. The GBIF data cache returned 935 Carnivora records (yellow stars) and 5411 Rodentia records (blue stars), respectively. Using online GIS tools, users at this step can select occurrence data points, either on the map or in the table at the bottom of the web page, and move or delete records. Having performed this validation step, the user can then perform a set of analyses based on this occurrence data set.