1 Overview Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), Estonia, 17 Feb Photo CC BY Madis Karu. PlutoF platform observations. demo.gbif.org/occurrence/ March 2017

2 BY THE NUMBERS 1 Feb 2017 Species occurrence records Datasets 715,170,991 31,780 Country Participants Organizational Participants Publishers 54 880 39 Useful to see GBIF in its different modalities: A window on biodiversity An informatics infrastructure focuseD on tools and standards in service to science and society A global network on bioinformatics Records downloaded per month Unique users per month (Feb 2017) 26.7 billion 105,729

3 Current national participantsparticipation

4 communications Latest newsFinal BID call for proposals seeks projects from sub- Saharan Africa First stage of two-stage selection process under the EU-funded data mobilization programme in • English • Français • Portugûes Poland elevates commitment, becomes GBIF Voting Participant Long-time Associate Participant is 39th full national member and 19th among European countries Read more 63.8 million new records increase eBird total to 275 million Annual dataset refresh grows by 30 per cent, with biggest gains in Asia and Europe Read more Photo credits: (left) Picasso bug (Sphaerocoris annulus). Used by permission © 2013 Jeremy Roberts. (centre) Tatra Chamois, Kozica tatrzańska in Polish (Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica), Tatra mountains, Poland.

5 data access and use Web traffic to GBIF.org, 2017 1 United StatesRank Country/Territory Sessions % Total Sessions 2016 rank Pages / Session 1 United States 38,201 13.35% 4.71 2 India 23,095 8.07% 2.03 3 Germany 12,483 4.36% 4 5.85 France 12,080 4.27% 3.18 5 United Kingdom 11,395 3.98% 7 7.80 6 Spain 11,031 5.37 Mexico 10,292 3.91% 8 8.13 Brazil 9,658 3.62% 4.96 9 Italy 6,750 2.75% 10 3.99 Canada 6,455 2.40% 13 4.66 data access and use

6 Data published through GBIF.orgdata availability

7 Occurrence records published during 2017 by countryNew records 2016 rank 1 Sweden 7,357,480 26 2 Mexico 3,061,571 14 3 Norway 1,575,075 6 4 Brazil 1,050,962 15 5 United States 883,444 New Zealand 702,182 13 7 Canada 688,413 19 8 United Kingdom 631,112 9 Belgium 578,138 10 France 366,898 17 data availability

8 Total number of occurrence records published by country as of 28 Feb 2017United States 333,498,481 2 Sweden 61,000,794 3 France 40,281,742 4 Australia 36,435,662 5 United Kingdom 29,635,764 6 Germany 28,477,939 7 Netherlands 26,075,010 8 Norway 24,187,647 9 South Africa 21,043,210 10 Spain 14,321,775 data availability

9 Data download requests by country, 2017Downloads 2016 rank 1 United States 5,384 2 Mexico 1,970 3 United Kingdom 932 6 4 Brazil 756 5 China 561 9 Spain 551 7 South Africa 464 8 Germany 455 11 Colombia 381 10 Italy 372 12 2017 data access and use

10 Peer-reviewed publications using GBIF-mediated datadata access and use

11 Peer-reviewed uses, by country and region, 2017Total # of papers by country 1 United States 28 2 United Kingdom 19 3 Germany 15 4 Spain 14 5 Brazil 13 6 Mexico 10 Switzerland 8 Australia 9 France Norway data access and use Total # of papers by region 1 Europe 119 2 North America 33 3 Latin America 32 4 Asia 18 5 Oceania 10 6 Africa

12 Featured research January 2017De Pooter D, Appeltans W, Bailly N et al. (2017) Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences. Biodiversity Data Journal 5 doi: /BDJ.5.e10989 Author countries: Belgium, Greece, United States, Italy, Argentina, New Zealand, United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Venezuela Hosoya T, Uzuhashi S, Hosaka K & Kudo S (2017) An assessment of fungi endemic to Japan. Japanese Journal of Mycology 57: doi: /jjom.57.2_77 Author country: Japan. Liu D, Wang R, Gordon DR, Sun X, Chen L & Wang Y (2017) Predicting Plant Invasions Following China's Water Diversion Project. Environmental Science & Technology doi: /acs.est.6b05577 Author countries: China, United States Odonne G, Houël E, Bourdy G & Stien D (2017) Healing leishmaniasis in Amazonia: review of ethnomedicinal concepts and pharmaco-chemical analysis of traditional treatments to inspire modern phytotherapies. Journal of Ethnopharmacology doi: /j.jep Author country: France Padilla O, Rosas P, Moreno W & Toulkeridis T (2017) Modeling of the ecological niches of the anopheles spp in Ecuador by the use of geo-informatic tools. Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 21: doi: /j.sste Author country: Ecuador Pellegrini AFA, Anderegg WRL, Paine CET et al. (2016) Convergence of bark investment according to fire and climate structures ecosystem vulnerability to future change. Ecology Letters doi: /ele Author countries: United States, United Kingdom, Norway, Brazil Rengifo-Correa L, Stephens CR, Morrone JJ, Téllez-Rendón-JL & González- Salazar (2016) Understanding transmissibility patterns of Chagas disease through complex vector–host networks. Parasitology: doi: /S Author country: Mexico Featured research January 2017 data access and use Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Data management Data papers https://demo.gbif.org/cms/search?type=data_use

13 Featured research February 2017 1/2Andrew C, Heegaard E, Kirk PM et al. (2017) Big data integration: Pan- European fungal species observations' assembly for addressing contemporary questions in ecology and global change biology. Fungal Biology Reviews doi: /j.fbr Author countries: Norway, United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, Netherlands, Germany, United States. Antonelli A, Hettling H, Condamine FL (2016) Toward a Self-Updating Platform for Estimating Rates of Speciation and Migration, Ages, and Relationships of Taxa. Systematic Biology. doi: /sysbio/syw066 Author countries: Sweden, Netherlands, France, United States, Switzerland. Carew ME, Metzeling L, St Clair R, Hoffmann AA (2016) Detecting invertebrate species in archived collections using next-generation sequencing. Molecular Ecology Resources. doi: / Author country: Australia. Figuerola B, Barnes DKA, Brickle P, Brewin PE (2017) Bryozoan diversity around the Falkland and South Georgia Islands: Overcoming Antarctic barriers. Marine Environmental Research doi: /j.marenvres Author countries: Spain, United Kingdom, Falkland Islands (Malvinas). González-Salazar C, Stephens CR & Sánchez-Cordero V (2017) Predicting the Potential Role of Non-human Hosts in Zika Virus Maintenance. EcoHealth. doi: /s Author country: Mexico. Martin CA & Harvey WJ (2017) The Global Pollen Project: A New Tool for Pollen Identification and the Dissemination of Physical Reference Collections. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. doi: / X Author country: United Kingdom. Featured research February /2 data access and use Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Data management Data papers https://demo.gbif.org/cms/search?type=data_use

14 Featured research February 2017 2/2Odonne G, Houël E, Bourdy G, Stien D (2017) Treating leishmaniasis in Amazonia: A review of ethnomedicinal concepts and pharmaco-chemical analysis of traditional treatments to inspire modern phytotherapies. Journal of Ethnopharmacology doi: /j.jep Author country: France. Pausas JG & Ribeiro E (2017) Fire and plant diversity at the global scale. Global Ecology & Biogeography. uv.es/jgpausas/papers/Pausas-2017-GEB_fire- diversity.pdf Author countries: Spain, Netherlands. Prieto-Benítez S, Yela JL, Giménez-Benavides L (2017) Ten years of progress in the study of Hadena-Caryophyllaceae nursery pollination. A review in light of new Mediterranean data. Flora. doi: /j.flora Author countries: Spain, United States. Skeels A & Cardillo M (2017) Environmental niche conservatism explains the accumulation of species richness in Mediterranean-hotspot plant genera. Evolution doi: /evo Author country: Australia. Taylor NG, Kell SP, Holubec V, Parra-Quijano M, Chobot K & Maxted N (2017) A systematic conservation strategy for crop wild relatives in the Czech Republic. Diversity and Distributions doi: /ddi Author countries: United Kingdom, Czech Republic, Italy. Zohner CM, Benito BM, Fridley JD, Svenning JC, Renner SS (2017) Spring predictability explains different leaf-out strategies in the woody floras of North America, Europe and East Asia. Ecology Letters. doi: /ele Author countries: Denmark, Norway, United States. Featured research February /2 data access and use Invasive alien species Impact of climate change Species conservation and protected areas Biodiversity and human health Food, farming and biofuels Ecosystem services Advancing biodiversity science Data management Data papers https://demo.gbif.org/cms/search?type=data_use