This tutorial course will help users to learn how to use the Data Refinement Workflowto retrieve and clean data from GBIF.

This tutorial and the workflow it describes has been prepared by the FP7 funded BioVeL project (grant no. 283359).

Course to learn the basics of biodiversity.

This course will introduce you to the Ecological Niche Modelling family of workflows developed by the Biodiversity Virtual e-Laboratory (BioVeL) project. It will teach you:

  • how to prepare your input data for niche modelling using the Data Refinement workflow
  • how to carry out the niche modelling process using the Ecological Niche Modelling workflow
  • how to do post-processing tasks to prepare the outputs for use in an academic paper / publication.

BioVeL is funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme (FP7) as part of its e-Infrastructures activity (Grant no. 283359). It's website may be found at www.biovel.eu.

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