The Global Biodiversity Information Facility is an international organisation that focuses on making scientific data on biodiversity available via the 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. More information...
In June 2020 the website gbif.org was on the 2,613th place in the ranking of the most reliable and popular sources in multilingual Wikipedia from readers' point of view (PR-score). If we consider only frequency of appearance of this source in references of Wikipedia articles (F-score), this website was on the 161st place in June 2020. From Wikipedians' point of view, "gbif.org" is the 232nd most reliable source in different language versions of Wikipedia (AR-score).
The website is placed before joshuaproject.net and after nationmultimedia.com in multilingual PR ranking of the most reliable sources in Wikipedia.
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