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Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON)

The USGS Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) project is an online mapping information system consisting of a large collection of species occurrence datasets (e.g., plants and animals) found in the United States and relevant geospatial layers. Species occurrences are records of organisms at a particular time and location that are often collected as part of biological field studies and taxonomic collections. These data serve as a foundation for biodiversity and conservation research.

http://bison.usgs.ornl.gov/#api

The spatial range for this dataset is 17.0° to 74.0° latitude, and -180.0° to -63.0° longitude. map (center)

Also known as :

• dataset biodiversity-information-serving-our-nation-bison5f7a2 (datagov lexicon)
• identifier f41723ad-90aa-4d3e-a175-ae8fd24a9a05 (datagov lexicon)