GBIF Sweden is the Swedish participant node in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF. Our main task is to make primary data on biological diversity from Swedish collections and observation databases freely available and to coordinate and support GBIF-related activities and data use in Sweden.
Use of GBIF-mediated data in science continues to grow across both disciplines and geography. In the first three months of 2025 alone, GBIF logged a 27 per cent increase in papers using open biodiversity data compared to the same period the year before.The newly released GBIF Science Review No. 12 [...]
GBIF Sweden is pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding from GBIF’s Capacity Enhancement Support Programme (CESP) for the project Biodiversity data capacity building in Lithuania.
A new study published in Nature Scientific Data presents unprecedented insights into insect biodiversity in Sweden and Madagascar. The results, emerging from the Insect Biome Atlas (IBA) project, demonstrate the vast diversity of insect life through a large-scale DNA metabarcoding survey. All data from the study are now openly available through the GBIF network.
