BIEN Overview
BIEN, the Botanical Information and Ecology Network, is a biodiversity data infrastructure for plant occurrences, traits, and range products. This site is organized to help visitors move quickly from orientation to data access, methods, and citation.
Data and access
Explore the portal, R package, and applications.
Methods and workflow
See how BIEN resolves names, places, and native status.
Archive and legacy
Read older BIEN material as historical context.
BIEN is best used as a reproducible workflow rather than a static map gallery. Data products are versioned and query-dependent and should be interpreted with caveats about sampling coverage, taxonomic reconciliation, geographic validation, and range interpretation.
Citation anchor: Enquist BJ, Boyle B, Maitner BS, et al. (2026). Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 17(5), 1556-1584. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.70274.