Who Uses Biota?
Biota offers many advantages to anyone who works with spatially-referenced, taxonomically-classified specimen-based data. From 1 ha vegetation plots, to regional or protected-area biotic inventories, to continental-scale specimen databases, Biota saves you enormous amounts of time, frustration, and errors. • No more struggling through immense speadsheets with repeated (variously mispelled) taxonomic and locality columns. Biota’s relational structure means there is exactly one record for each taxon and locality. • No more half-days spent extracting data for a particular set of samples and taxa. With Biota, you can export taxon-by-collection or taxon-by locality abundance or incidence matrices based on any selection of records, ready for statistical analysis, and get on with the interesting work. • No more repetitive data entry for multiple specimens that share collecting or taxonomic data. With Biota’s “Series” entry tools, you set up the data once, and Biota creates or updates specifie
