Talk:GBIF

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Page scope

GBIF is about the Global Biodiversity Information Facility: the intergovernmental network, the portal through which it publishes occurrence records, and what it holds for Cannabis.

Sourcing

GBIF's history, governance, licensing, terms of use and data processing come from its own pages and technical documentation. The Darwin Core standard, the publishing toolkit and the growth of the data come from published papers, several of them by GBIF staff. The Cannabis counts come from GBIF's occurrence search and carry their date. The two studies in the research section are cited for what their authors did with GBIF data. Discuss attribution, independent sourcing and any claim that has lost its attribution here.

Discussion

Counts

The counts are those of GBIF's occurrence search on 13 November 2026. They change as publishers add, correct and withdraw data. The genus count takes in every record matched to a name under Cannabis in the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy, whatever name the publisher gave; 33,848 of the 35,440 records were matched to Cannabis sativa.

Genebank accessions counted as specimens

GBIF files the 1,368 Cannabis records of EURISCO under the basis of record "preserved specimen". The 13,033 preserved specimens therefore include genebank accessions alongside herbarium sheets. Without EURISCO the figure is 11,665.

GBIF flags records whose coordinates fail its checks and keeps them in the index. Studies that model distributions clean the records again: Ford and colleagues (2024) removed duplicates, outliers, invalid coordinates and coordinates belonging to institutions before modelling. Of the 13,033 preserved specimens, 5,787 carried coordinates on 13 November 2026.