General information about GBIF and GBIF Germany
GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (see www.gbif.org) is an international activity to make biodiversity information available to the public via the Internet: This should be a sorce of information not only for scientists, but for all interested persons. GBIF Germany (www.gbif.de) has an enormous importance for the worldwide availabilty of biodiversity data from Germany, especially for and from natural history collections, which collaborate for the first time in a comprehensive project compound funded directly by the German State (Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF) .
last changes: 03.12.2004




