Biodiversity Data Use

Key to the Red List assessment process is data and the Categories and Criteria allow for the use of a range of data of heterogenous quality within an assessment. These data can be observations, estimations, projections, inferences or suspicions. Processed GBIF-mediated data is a source of observation data providing georeferenced locality data that can be used to calculate key metrics in the assessment process, particularly for Criterion B and for producing species distribution maps that are required to accompany assessments. Remember, that ALL criteria should be applied during an assessment, which is why you will ideally have additional information on population sizes and trends along with information on threats to the species.