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.
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has opened the call for nominations for the 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award. The award recognizes outstanding research by master’s and PhD students whose work uses GBIF-mediated biodiversity data and demonstrates innovation and discovery in biodiversity science and biodiversity informatics.The award is presented annually [...]
The first Biodiversity Monitoring Week (BioMonWeek 2026) will be held in Montpellier, France, from 4 to 8 May 2026. The event is conceived as a new European platform for biodiversity monitoring, bringing together experts from research, policy, public authorities, NGOs, the private sector, and citizen science to strengthen coordination and [...]
A new dataset from the National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden (NILS) is now available through GBIF Sweden, offering a uniquely detailed look at how vegetation and habitats are distributed across the country. The dataset, “National Inventories of Landscapes in Sweden: Presence-absence Vegetation data”, brings nearly two decades of systematic [...]
