# GBIF biodiversity

Over 150 million species observations in the Netherlands, including from waarneming.nl and museum collections.

- Publisher: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Area: World · Finest detail: observation
- Period: 1700 – heden · Refreshed: daily
- Access: Open · Licence: CC0 / CC BY
- Join keys: soortnaam, coördinaten
- Status: grijs
- URL: https://www.gbif.org

## What can you do with it?
- **Which species were seen near you?.** Search observations within a circle around your home.
- **Shifting species.** Track a southern species over the years and see if it moves north.

## Interesting combinations
- First butterflies of the year → [knmi-daggegevens](https://www.opendataindex.nl/en/bron/knmi-daggegevens.md) via datum. Compare the first-sighting date with spring temperature.

## Similar sources
- [Waarneming.nl](https://waarneming.nl): The source of many Dutch observations, with more detail.