Biodiversity Atlas project Site

Home‎ > ‎

Species distributions projects

This page is a on going work to find different projects that relate to species distributions. If you know of any project related to Biodiversity Atlas please leave a comment or send us an email.

CROCODILIAN SPECIES LIST

Distributions as images.


Species Distribution Grids

Lot of different taxa (amphibians, birds, mammals). Agreggated manuallyfrom different sources. Data converted into GeoTIFF and published in PDF and JPG. 7 different status (http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/species/about.jsp)

Africa

Global Register of Migratory Species

distributionmap of Balaena mysticetus





Data available in JPG and Shapefiles

Australian Fish Species Distribution Maps

Unknown

FAO species ditributions maps, FIGIS

JPG images

Wyoming Bioinformation Node

JPG maps based on primary data and modeling.

Everglades CISMA

More primary data than actual distributions maps.

Distribution Maps of Selected Alien Plants in Hawaii
http://www.hear.org/AlienSpeciesinHawaii/AlienPlantDistributionMapsBySpecies.htm

JPG. Based on regions (Islands)

Atlas Florae Europaeae

Using its own GRID system.


Fauna Europeae


Java applet. Probably primary data behind.

Florabase stores polygons in an oracle gis db:


Catalogue of Life:
example:

They do not provide maps, but written names of areas.

The Euro+Med Plantbase

They use their own area abbreviations with presence status codes too.

All about birds


Barn Owl

Maps are actually provided from Natureserve.org

They have the distributions available as shapefiles.



Navigation

Recent site activity