IMPORTANTJavier de la Torre

BIODIVERSITY,

envisioning life

WHERE IS

Biodiversity

Biodiversity is a Megascience

The Natural History Museum

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

2-3 billion specimens around the world

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79

Osmoderma eremita, Ordesa, 7/7/79

Dr. Scott Mori, an expert in the Brazil nut family and tropical forests

Collecting on the field

7th July 1979

3 de Enero de 1979

7th July 1979

foto de ordesa

7th July 1979

Osmoderma eremita

Osmoderma eremita

P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79

What, When, WHERE: Primary data

mapa de europa con el punto del bicho

Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se encuentra ese bicho en Europa

Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se encuentra ese bicho en EuropaArea de distribucion real de los puntos en europa

Analysis on primary data

P.N.Ordesa 7-7-79

What, When, WHERE: Primary data

We need lots of data

datos primarios al final

175 Million observations on the web

http://www.biodiversityhotspots.org

Birds in Europe & North America

We have verylittle data

Este es el mismo mapa con muchos mas puntos de donde se encuentra ese bicho en Europa

Plano de condiciones ambientalesSummer precipitation Winter precipitation

Maximum temp. summer Average height

Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

Plano de distribución potencial de la especie

Pearson et al., 2002

Carex bigelowii, different scenarios

Rafael Luís Fonseca

Crotalaria pallida

What is this good for

TaxonomyBiogeographic StudiesSpecies Diversity and PopulationsLife Histories and PhenologiesEndangered, Migratory and Invasive SpeciesImpact of Climate ChangeEcology, Evolution and GeneticsEnvironmental RegionalisationConservation PlanningNatural Resource ManagementAgriculture, Forestry, Fisheries and Mining

Health and Public SafetyBioprospectingForensicsBorder Control and Wildlife TradeEducation and Public OutreachEcotourismArt and HistorySociety and PoliticsRecreational ActivitiesHuman Infrastructure PlanningAquatic and Marine Biodiversity

Conservation matters

Conservation matters

Cool! 175 Million records of open data

envisioning life

How do we share biodiversity data

1.8 million species pagesCommon format

Customizable by userFreely available

Accessible from a common portalNever completed

http://www.gbif.org/

GBIF is a global network of data providers that builds biodiversity information infrastructure and promotes the growth of biodiversity information content on the Internet by working with partner initiatives and coordinating activities worldwide.

Edu-cation

Conser-vation

Research

Regu-lation

Sustainabledevelopment

GeneralPublic

Industry

…..

…..PrimaryData

Commonprotocol

Portals &Services

User com-munities

WrapperBiological databases

Commonprotocol

Portals and services

User communities

Demo

GBIF web services

http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/taxon

http://data.gbif.org/ws/rest/occurrence

http://www.tdwg.org/

What

When

Where

Darwin Core

175 Million records of open data

Making useof the data

Intersecting GBIF network data with the World Database on Protected Areas

160M points intersect 150K polygons

Reproducing Spatial Joins using Hadoop and EC2. Tim Robertson

http://biodivertido.blogspot.com

Millions of species, billions of tilesPrimary data tile generation on the fly

Polygons from points (using Clustr)Deriving species distributions from P.D.

GBIF- Convention on Migratory Species

Global Registry of Migratory Species

Summarizing...

zrim

Biodiversity matters

Biodiversity informatics is all about open data

Michael Dawes

Join us!

Scott Kinmartin

jatorre@vizzuality.com

biodivertido.blogspot.com

THANKS;)@jatorre