Table 1.
Comparison of EcoBank with diverse other repositories from around the world. EcoBank does not contain datasets on marine biodiversity and does not cover wildlife trades and agricultural information. Except for those, however, EcoBank eventually provides all ecological datasets on terrestrial and freshwater systems in Korea.
*1 GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility (https://www.gbif.org/)
*2 CCAMLR: Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (https://www.ccamlr.org/en/data/data/)
*3 TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network (https://www.traffic.org/)
*4 IPBES: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (https://www.ipbes.net/about)
|
Main
Resources |
EcoBank |
Terrestrial Biodiversity
portals and repositories |
Marine biodiversity
portals and repositories |
Wildlife
trade monitoring network |
IPBES
portal |
| Examples | - | GBIF*1 | CCAMLR*2 | TRAFFIC*3 | IPBES*4 |
| Areas | |||||
| Terrestrial | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |
| Freshwater | ○ | ○ | ○ | ||
| Marine | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |
| Themes | |||||
| Biodiversity | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |
| Ecosystems | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | |
| Endangered species | ○ | ○ | |||
| Protected areas | ○ | ||||
| Wildlife trade | ○ | ||||
| Climate-related | ○ | ○ | |||
| Agriculture | ○ | ||||
| Forest | ○ | ||||
| Indicators | ○ | ||||
| Metrics | ○ | ○ | |||
| Standards | ○ | ||||
| Metadata | ○ | ||||
| Taxonomic literature | ○ | ||||
| Analysis | ○ | ||||
| Partner network | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ | ○ |