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Avian ecology and behaviorSpecies Distribution and Climate Change
Abstract
Bird occurrence records (Aves, GBIF taxonKey 212) used in Course Project 9 to compute effort-corrected species richness for 884 one-degree grid cells covering South and Southeast Asia (5-31°N, 68-102°E). The records were obtained through the GBIF occurrence search API with a species facet, not as a download. Filters: hasCoordinate=true, hasGeospatialIssue=false, occurrenceStatus=PRESENT, year 2000-2024. Queried on 2026-10-05/06. The attached contributing-dataset counts were re-queried on 2026-10-09 with identical filters: 71,716,026 records from 110 datasets, against 71,719,018 summed over cells at pull time; the small difference is database drift and records on shared cell edges. The per-cell derived dataset, codebook, counts file and analysis scripts are deposited at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23264805.
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