Welcome to BIEN, the Botanical Information and Ecology Network

BIEN is a network of ecologists, botanists, and computer scientists working together to document global patterns of plant diversity, function and distribution.

Here you will find access to:

• Georeferenced plant observations from herbarium, plot, and trait records;
• Plot inventories and surveys;
• Species geographic distribution maps;
• Plant traits;
• A species-level phylogeny for all plants in the New World;
• Cross-continent, continent, and country-level species lists.

Access Data – See the data overview page to access public data, request access to private data, and find data tools and products.