SBDI brings biodiversity data together
SDBI aggregates biodiversity data from multiple sources and makes it available and usable online. It is the largest collection of freely available biodiversity data in Sweden.
Making the most of biodiversity data
Biodiversity data about plants, animals and fungi and their habitats may be used to educate and inform and in environmental decision-making, state of the environment assessments and restoration and rewilding.
News
Director for SBDI – position open
We are recruiting a new Director for the Swedish Biodiversity Data Infrastructure (SBDI).
Call for submissions: 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) has opened the call for submissions for the 2026 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge. The challenge promotes innovative uses of open biodiversity data by recognizing the development of tools, workflows, and applications that improve the access, integration, analysis, or reuse of biodiversity information.The Ebbe Nielsen Challenge...
Call for nominations: 2026 GBIF Graduate Researchers Award
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...
Events
Lifeplan: combining globally distributed biodiversity sampling with new methods of machine learning and big data statistics
The ERC-synergy Lifeplan (2020-2026) has completed 5 years of globally distributed biodiversity sampling. This has resulted in >100 years of audio, >10 million camera trap images, and >20,000 DNA metabarcoding samples that represent ca. 1 million species of arthropods and fungi – in our knowledge the world’s largest systematically collected...
