Map of Life: Integrating and serving spatial biodiversity information to support research, education, and discovery

Raw occurrence data insufficiently document species distributions and trends, hindering research and conservation. Map of Life combines different biodiversity data with remote sensing and models to support, globally, the collaborative development and use of predicted species occurrence information and change assessment. Web and mobile app-based tools deliver placed-based information about locally occurring species and their natural history, supporting biodiversity discovery and education. This lowers the threshold for people to connect with biodiversity around them. Linked to dynamically updated data gap analyses it can also help guide the effective and citizen science-based collection of vital and still missing natural history information.