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Mongolia expands GBIF Asia network by becoming an Associate Participant www.gbif.org
Mongolia has joined GBIF as an Associate Participant, marking a significant step in expanding representation of the GBIF network in Asia.
Demberel Sodnomsambuu of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences signed the GBIF Memorandum of Understanding on behalf of the Mongolian government. Operating within its role as an autonomous centre for the development of Mongolian science and technology under this agreement, Mongolian Academy of Sciences will host the national node that supports GBIF-related engagement of the country's institutions around biodiversity data mobilization, use and capacity development.
Mongolia joins Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the region, which joined in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and is the 65th member state worldwide. Recent engagements at the Asia regional nodes meeting in the Republic of China and the Biodiversity data in montane and arid Eurasia symposium in Kazakhstan proved pivotal in Mongolia's decision to join the network.
"Improving the quality and accessibility of biodiversity data has long been a critical need in our decision-making," said Gantulga Davaakhuu of Mongolian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Biology. "Joining the GBIF network will be instrumental in enhancing our skills and capacity to support evidence-driven policies, conservation efforts, and research, both nationwide and within our Central Asian network."
Bordering both the Russian Federation and the Republic of China, Mongolia encompasses more than 1.5 million square kilometres of predominantly mountainous and desert landscapes. Biodiversity data coverage for this vast country has been limited, with less than 730 thousand occurrence records about Mongolian biodiversity having been mobilized to GBIF to date. However these records are attributed to more than 660 datasets across 246 countries, indicating widespread potential for additional biodiversity data mobilization efforts.
"Mongolian biodiversity is magnetic and unique in representation of strictly continental biotopes, including mountains and forests, and famously, steppes and deserts," said Dmitry Schigel, Scientific officer at the GBIF Secretariat. "For many biologists, Mongolia is a paleontology hotspot; participation in GBIF opens a new chapter in digital discoverability of the country’s research and data."
The two largest datasets containing records from Mongolia are the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's eBird Observational Data and the Database of invertebrates collected in Mongolia from the Hungarian Natural History Museum, together representing more than 327,000 occurrence records.
Currently, the only dataset available from a Mongolian organization comes from the
Mongolia Natural History Museum, which contains a sample of its specimen records. Notably, datasets hosted by the Korean Biodiversity Information Facility, the South Korean national node of GBIF, also represent more than 109,000 records from Mongolia, making them the second-largest publisher of Mongolian data behind eBird.
Records from from the Mongolian Natural History Museum have supported findings across a diverse body of 142 peer-reviewed articles as well as The plants that feed the world, a recent United Nations report on the conservation and use of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
Published Date:2025-02-02
