GBIF —the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments providing global data that document the occurrence of species. GBIF integrates datasets from around the world and currently documents more than two billion species occurrences. The GBIF occurrence dataset combines data from a wide array of sources including specimen-related data from natural history museums, observations from citizen science networks and environment recording schemes. These data, which change constantly at GBIF.org, are compiled in periodic snapshots and made available on cloud-computing platforms like Google Big Query. The field names in the occurrences table are based on the Darwin Core standard . Further details are described here . This dataset is also available for access in Google Cloud Storage .

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments providing global data that document the occurrence of species. GBIF currently integrates datasets documenting over 1.6 billion species occurrences, growing daily. The GBIF occurrence dataset combines data from a wide array of sources including specimen-related data from natural history museums, observations from citizen science networks and environment recording schemes. While these data are constantly changing at GBIF.org, periodic snapshots are taken and made available on AWS.