{"id":3800,"date":"2026-07-01T13:56:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T21:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/?page_id=3800"},"modified":"2026-07-01T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T22:13:18","slug":"bien-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/bien-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"BIEN Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width:820px;margin:0 auto;padding:0 1rem;line-height:1.65;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-top:0;letter-spacing:-0.01em;\">BIEN Overview<\/h2>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(190px,1fr));gap:12px;margin:1.25rem 0 1.35rem 0;\">\n<div style=\"border:1px solid #d9e1dc;border-radius:10px;padding:14px;background:#f9fbf9;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.08em;color:#5f6d64;\">Start here<\/div>\n<p>    <strong>Data and access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.4rem 0 0 0;\">Explore the portal, R package, and applications.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"border:1px solid #d9e1dc;border-radius:10px;padding:14px;background:#f9fbf9;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.08em;color:#5f6d64;\">Trust and traceability<\/div>\n<p>    <strong>Methods and workflow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.4rem 0 0 0;\">See how BIEN resolves names, places, and native status.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"border:1px solid #d9e1dc;border-radius:10px;padding:14px;background:#f9fbf9;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:0.8em;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:0.08em;color:#5f6d64;\">Provenance<\/div>\n<p>    <strong>Archive and legacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:0.4rem 0 0 0;\">Read older BIEN material as historical context.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-top:1px solid #d9e1dc;margin:1.5rem 0 1rem 0;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin:0;\"><strong>Citation anchor:<\/strong> Enquist BJ, Boyle B, Maitner BS, et al. (2026). <em>Methods in Ecology and Evolution<\/em>, 17(5), 1556-1584. DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/2041-210X.70274\">10.1111\/2041-210X.70274<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Start here Data and access Explore the portal, R package, and applications. Trust and traceability Methods and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-3800","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3813,"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3800\/revisions\/3813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bien.nceas.ucsb.edu\/bien\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}