galah

Biodiversity Data from the GBIF Node Network

Author

Martin Westgate, Dax Kellie, Matilda Stevenson & Peggy Newman

Published

June 13, 2025

Doi

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) sources data from an international network of data providers, known as ‘nodes’. Several of these nodes - the living atlases - maintain their own web services using software originally developed by the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). ‘galah’ enables the R community to directly access data and resources hosted by GBIF and its partner nodes.