GBIF Data Source
Lifemapper receives species information from the data warehouse maintained by the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF, http://www.gbif.org). GBIF aggregates species occurrence data from museum data providers, and from taxonomic discipline and species observation networks.
Lifemapper Database Statistics
These statistics reflect the current holdings of species occurrence data in the Lifemapper (LM) database. Organism data in LM are primarily organized by species, but some of the occurrence sets are labeled to genus or other taxonomic level.
| Number of Species | 1,006,454 | Total number of species in the Lifemapper database. This is also the number of species in the most current GBIF database copy which have at least one georeferenced occurrence record. |
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| Number of Species with at least 50 points | 145,238 | Total number of species that have at least 50 occurrence points, the minimum threshold for computing models. |
| Number of Species With Modeled Habitat | 120,134 | Total number of species for which Lifemapper has computed environmental niche models. |
| Number of Species in Pre-Processing | 5,512 | Number of species in Lifemapper with new occurrence data. These data points will be analyzed and assembled into occurrence sets. Those with 50 or more georeferenced points will be moved to the model queue. |