GloBI
Global Biotic Interactions
Facilitating Access to Species Interaction Data
Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) provides open access to finding species interaction data (e.g., predator-prey, pollinator-plant, pathogen-host, parasite-host) by combining existing open datasets using open source software.
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Invaluable Resource
“Biodiversity researchers have focused on diversity at the cost of ignoring the networks of interactions between organisms that characterize ecosystems.”
Kevin McCann
Accessible
“An essential element of a truly inclusionary and democratic approach to science is to share data through publicly accessible data sets.”
Soranno et al., 2014
Many interactions
“GloBI provided bee species visitation records across large spatial scales and with large sample sizes—the total dataset contains 259,210 bee visitation records between bees and plants…”
Smith et al., 2025
