Open Sustainable Technology

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Trefle

A botanical JSON REST API for plants species, allowing you to search and query over all the registered species, and build the next gardening apps and farming robots.

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Consumption - Agriculture and Nutrition - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.8

TaxonWorks

An integrated web-based workbench for taxonomists and biodiversity scientists.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.2

mobr

Tools for analyzing changes in biodiversity across scales.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7

BioDiversityHub BC

The source of British Columbia's species inventory data.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.7

Global Names Verifier

Verifies scientific names against more than 100 biodiversity databases.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 4.5

oneimpact

Provides tools for the assessment of cumulative impacts of multiple infrastructure and land use modifications in ecological studies.

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Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 3.7

RBIEN

Tools for accessing the Botanical Information and Ecology Network database.

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Biosphere - Plants and Vegetation - Last synced: 03 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.3

prioritizr

Uses mixed integer linear programming techniques to provide a flexible interface for building and solving conservation planning problems.

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Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.9

Global Biotic Interactions

Global Biotic Interactions provides access to existing species interaction datasets.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.1

The Catalogue of Life

The most complete authoritative list of the world's species, maintained by hundreds of global taxonomists.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 6.2

GBIF Alert

A GBIF-based early alert system for invasive species.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.4

SpeciesDistributionToolkit

A collection of Julia packages forming a toolkit meant to deal with species distribution data.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 7.2

python-dwca-reader

A Python package to read and parse Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A) files, as produced by the GBIF website, the IPT and many other biodiversity informatics tools.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 16.4

pyafscgap

Community contributed Python-based tools for working with public bottom trawl surveys data from the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center Groundfish Assessment Program.

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Biosphere - Marine Life and Fishery - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 8.0

Regen Ledger

Providing a structured database of claims regarding ecological state and change of state.

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Sustainable Development - Knowledge Platforms - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.8

rgbif

Interface to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility API.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.3

wdpar

R Interface to the World Database on Protected Areas.

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Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 10.0

taxize

Allows users to search over many taxonomic data sources for species names (scientific and common) and download up and downstream taxonomic hierarchical information.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 9.4

rredlist

An R client for the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 02 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.2

EcoSISTEM.jl

A Julia package that provides functionality for simulating species undergoing dynamic biological processes such as birth, death, competition and dispersal, as well as environmental changes in climate and habitat.

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Biosphere - Conservation and Restoration - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

spatialEco

R package for spatial analysis and modelling of ecological systems.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 13.0

biodivMapR

An R package for α- and β-diversity mapping using remotely-sensed images.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: -Infinity

Naturtag

A tool for nature photographers that adds useful metadata to describe the organisms in your photos.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 5.5

pyinaturalist

Python client for iNaturalist, a community science platform that helps people get involved in the natural world by observing and identifying the living things around them.

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Biosphere - Biodiversity and Species Distribution - Last synced: 01 Dec 2023 - Ranking: 14.4

Awesome-forests

A curated list of ground-truth forest datasets for the machine learning and forestry community.

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Sustainable Development - Curated Lists - Last synced: 30 Nov 2023 - Ranking: 7.1