VertNet
VertNet is a collaborative project that aggregates vertebrate occurrence records from natural history collections into an online portal, enabling open access to biodiversity data for research and education. The data describe observations and specimens of vertebrate animals, including birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes, drawn from museum collections and field studies contributed by participating institutions.
Data are published using Darwin Core standards; each record typically includes taxonomic name, collection date, locality,
Users can perform taxon-, geography-, or collection-based queries, download datasets, or access data via application programming
VertNet has supported biodiversity research, species distribution modeling, biogeography, and conservation planning. It is related to