A free geographic information system for the analysis of biodiversity data

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DIVA-GIS is a free geographic information system (GIS) software. You can use it to make maps of species distribution data, and analyze these data using grids. DIVA-GIS was specifically developed for use with genebank data such as available through national or international genebank documentation systems and SINGER. 

With DIVA you can:

Make maps of the sites where a plant or animal species was observed (and perhaps collected), or of characters of these observations;

Make grid maps of the distribution of biological diversity (e.g., species richness; Shannon index); and identify areas that have complementary levels of diversity;

Extract climate data for accession points, and predict the presence of species, for the current climate or the climate of the future.

And much more....... What's new in Version 2? 

DIVA-GIS was developed by Edwin Rojas, Robert J. Hijmans (CIP), and Luigi Guarino (IPGRI) with additional input from Mariana Cruz and Israel Barrantes (CIP). Financial support has come from CIP, IPGRI, SGRP/SINGER and FAO/WIEWS, with additional support from USDA-ARS, SENASA, BMZ and ESRI.

Contact : Reinhard Simon

International Potato Center  System-wide Genetic Resources Program  Food and Agricultiure Organization of the United Nations  International Plant Genetic Resources Institute 

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