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Lifemapper will connect existing computational efforts in environmental biology by providing open access network interfaces for web service integration with client applications and other biodiversity web servers.

Lifemapper exposes web services that return xml documents or spatial data from a simple URL query. These services can be used by any application, one of which is the Lifemapper website. The Lifemapper project will initially offer some basic web services to the public. Additional data, query, and analysis services will be offered in the future. Please contact us with your suggestions!

• list environmental scenarios and their layers
• query for environmental scenarios by keywords or spatial extent
• query for layers by keywords or spatial extent


• list Occurrence Sets and their points
• query for Occurrence Sets by taxonomic name or spatial extent


• list models
• query for models by taxonomic name or algorithm


• list predicted habitat maps
• query for predicted habitat maps by taxonomic name, algorithm, scenario, or spatial extent


• render or download spatial data for any of the above using OGC standards WFS or WCS


• request modeling or projection services using user-provided or Lifemapper cached data

Lifemapper is supported by U.S. NSF EPSCoR Grant 0553722.