Mapping Life On Earth

The Map of Life is an impressive endeavor to map life on Earth.

Using the application it is possible to click on a Google Map together with decease a listing of all the unlike types of bird, fish, reptile, amphibian or mammal that alive inwards a laid upward radius around that location. For example, if I click on my address the map returns a listing of 168 unlike types of aeroplane together with 32 unlike types of mammal.

It is too possible to role the map to stance the worldwide habitats of unlike species. If yous teach into the cite of an creature species the map volition shade inwards the areas of the world that the creature inhabits.


The USA National Phenology Network's Phenology Visualization Tool helps monitor the influence of climate on the phenology of plants, animals, together with landscapes inwards the U.S..

The site allows users to pick out a constitute or creature together with stance where that species has been reported on a Google Map. It is together with thence possible to stance an animation of the species' phenology (phenology refers to recurring constitute together with creature life bike stages) through time.

It is too possible to stance climate information on the same map. Users tin move stance maximum temperature, minimum temperature together with atmospheric precipitation either yesteryear calendar month or annually. If yous animate species information through time, with climate visible, yous volition encounter the climate information on the background modify amongst the phenology data.


The Atlas of Living Australia is the world human face upward of a $64.7 i grand 1000 initiative, funded over vi years yesteryear the Australian Government. Using the Atlas users tin move find, access, combine together with visualize information on Australian plants together with animals. It aims to enable whatever user to rapidly locate together with access information on all aspects of Australian biodiversity.

The website uses Google Maps to let users to search, analyse together with combine biodiversity together with environmental information geographically. The Species Map allows yous to search for species yesteryear mutual or scientific names. Occurrences are together with thence mapped equally points or equally numbered cluster markers. Clicking on the map at a detail place returns a inquiry on how many occurrences of detail species are inwards a 10km radius from the selected point.

The application comes with a long listing of contextual layers. All are good referenced to metadata with auto-generated legends for slowly identification of what diverse color scales mean. Created maps tin move move saved equally images for farther reuse.


The Web of Life provides a Google Maps based interface for easily visualizing together with downloading information on ecological networks of species interactions.

The map displays circular markers where ecological networks are located. The color of the markers indicates the type of ecological interaction of the network. Red markers demonstrate pollination together with yellowish markers seed dispersal. If yous left-click on a mark yous tin move stance information nearly the network, including the release of species, release of interactions together with the cite of the species.


The OBIS-Seamap uses Google Maps to demonstrate the distribution together with the ecology of marine mammals, seabirds together with body of body of water turtles across the globe.

It is possible to search together with stance information on the map for a release of unlike marine species. It is too possible to filter the information shown on the map yesteryear taxon group; 'sea bird', 'sea turtle' or 'marine mammal'.