Research infrastructure and biodiversity data usage in Brazil.

<p>(A) Distribution of Rede Nacional de Ensino e Pesquisa (RNP) metropolitan networks (December 2014). (B) Distribution of <i>species</i>Link’s data providers (per institution) and amount of records shared (December 2014). (C) <i>species</i>Link data usage (sessions) across Brazil (2014). <i>Image credit</i>: <i>Eduardo G</i>. <i>Baena</i>.</p

The evolution of Brazilian flora primary data available online and species described by Brazilian specialists.

<p>(A) Growth of the Virtual Herbarium from May 2003 to Feb 2015, showing the monthly average of online and georeferenced records; the orange line shows the evolution of the number of datasets. (B) Number of angiosperms species described by Brazilian (orange line) and foreign (grey line) scientists from 1990 to 2013.</p