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Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) - Listed Species within Pacific Southwest Region (Region 8), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Description:
- Researchers collect species occurrence data, records of an organism at a particular time in a particular place, as a primary or ancillary function of many biological field investigations. Presently, these data reside in numerous distributed systems and formats (including publications) and are consequently not being used to their full potential. As a step toward addressing this challenge, the Core Science Analytics, Synthesis, and Libraries (CSAS&L;) program of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is developing Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), an integrated and permanent resource for biological occurrence data from the United States. BISON will leverage the accumulated human and infrastructural resources of the long-term USGS investment in research and information management and delivery.
- Data Provided By:
- U.S. Geological Survey
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- not specified
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How to cite data retrieved from BISON:
[Data Provider or Owner name]. [Resource or dataset name] published by [Data Provider name, address affiliation(s)] (Accessed through Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), https://bison.usgs.gov, YYYY-MM-DD)
For example:
Field Museum of Natural History. U.S. Bird Occurrences published by Field Museum of Natural History,Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Washington Burke Museum, and University of Turku (Accessed through Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), https://bison.usgs.gov, 2007-02-22)Or
Gordon, J. U.S. Bird Occurrences published by Field Museum of Natural History,Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of Washington Burke Museum, and University of Turku (Accessed through Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON), https://bison.usgs.gov, 2007-02-22)
- Spatial Resolution:
- 8.9831528411952133e-009 by 8.9831528411952133e-009
- Contact Organization:
- U.S. Geological Survey; bison@usgs.gov
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- Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) is committed to providing free and open access to primary species occurrence data. Data currently available through BISON are contributed by various U.S. Federal and State agencies, universities, and non-profit organizations, either directly to BISON or indirectly through their participation in the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). GBIF Participants who have signed the GBIF Memorandum of Understanding have expressed their willingness to make biodiversity data available through their nodes to foster scientific research development internationally and to support the public use of these data. GBIF data sharing should take place within a framework of due attribution. Therefore, using data available through BISON requires agreement with the BISON Data Use Agreement that is displayed prior to a data download. See Data Use Agreement here https://bison.usgs.gov/data-use-agreement.html.
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This US Fish and Wildlife User Group is responsible for maintaining the Pacific Southwest Region Web Mapping Portal
