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How popular is your favorite species?

How to use Use the box to the left to type in the species you are interested in. Make sure to use a scientific name: Aves instead of birds Plantae  instead of plants Anura   instead of frogs Explanation of tool This tool plots the downloads through time for species or other taxonomic groups with more than 25 downloads at GBIF. Downloads at GBIF most often occur through the web interface . In a previous post , we saw that most users are downloading data from GBIF via filtering by scientific name (aka Taxon Key). Since the GBIF index currently sits at over 1 billion records (a 400+GB csv), most users will simply filter by their taxonomic group of interest and then generate a download. How to bookmark a result? If you would like to bookmark a result or graph to share with others, you can visit app page direcly: app link . On this page the state of the app will be saved inside the url. You can also save a jpg by clicking on the little sandwich in the top right. What coun...