The Digitarium project has built a conveyor belt system to help speed up the process of converting plant and inscts specimens into digital data.
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Research using data downloaded via GBIF has forecast the potential spread of cattle rabies carried by vampire bats in the Americas, both under present conditions and under future climate change scenarios.
Data from almost 200 specimens of Erisidae, known as velvet spiders, have been published via an online journal article analysing the lineage of the family. The records are mainly from Southern Africa and Europe.
The Avian Knowledge Network publishes over 100 million bird records from all over the world, to the GBIF network, through eight datasets including eBird, the Macaulay sound and video libraries, and the Great Backyard Bird Count.