Species Occurrence Records from GBIF for a Specific Region in France

A polygon in France defines the geographic scope for 123,928 species occurrence records sourced from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). The data, created by a GBIF.Org User, includes observations of Plantae and Animalia where the basis of record is human observation and coordinates are present. Records are aggregated from 327 constituent datasets, with some potentially having different licensing terms.

Use Cases

• Modeling species distribution based on human observation records within a specific polygon.
• Analyzing biodiversity patterns for Plantae and Animalia taxa in a region of France.
• Validating or supplementing field survey data using a large, aggregated occurrence dataset.

Strengths

• Contains 123,928 individual species occurrence records.
• Data is filtered for quality, requiring coordinates and excluding records with known geospatial issues.
• Aggregated from 327 distinct source datasets, providing a broad sample.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• The specific data schema and file formats are not described.

Provenance

Source

GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility)

Collection Method

Download via GBIF API query filtering for human observations with coordinates within a specific polygon, for Plantae and Animalia.

Geography

A polygon covering an area in France, defined by the coordinates in the query.