Result description
A species occurrence cube is a tab-separated csv file containing species occurrence measures (e.g. a count) summarized by taxonomic, temporal and/or spatial dimensions (e.g. a given year, a specific taxonomic rank, etc.). A simple example could be a cube summarizing the records of European lagomorph species by year, a query for which the produced cube reduces more than 1.5 million occurrences into a 23 KB summary of just over 1,000 lines, each representing the count of a given species in a given year
As with other GBIF occurrence download formats, all successful queries are assigned unique and permanent DOIs to enable FAIR citation that enable attribution of credit to data publishers and aid reproducibility of downstream analyses.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- Help in technical expertise
The newly enable species occurrence cube download functionality provides occurrence data summaries using spatial grid references used for the member state biodiversity reporting. We seek for Member States to integrate these new data products within their biodiversity reporting data workflows and increased collaboration for further refining of these products for effective and transparent biodiversity reporting.
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- International Organisations (ex. OECD, FAO, UN, etc.)
- Research and Technology Organisations
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
GBIF will train and support users and the GBIF network, and engage with indicator developers to further tailor these data products as part of core GBIF services.
This service is available and maintained by GBIF
