The NLBIF website and “biodiversity portal” have been made possible thanks to the commitment of a lot of persons and organisations:

Financial support

• University of Amsterdam
• Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research

Dutch GBIF dataproviders

• Centraal Bureau voor Schimmelcultures

  (Vincent Robert, Gerrit Stegehuis)

• Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands

  (Frank Menting, Marco van Veller)

• European Invertebrate Survey - Netherlands

  (Roy Kleukers)

• Foundation for Applied Water Research

  (Bas van der Wal)

• Museum of Natural History Rotterdam

  (Henry van der Es, Kees Moeliker, Frans Slieker)

• National Herbarium of the Netherlands

  (Johan Mols, Luc Willemse)

• National Museum of Natural History Naturalis

  (René Dekker, Bert Hoeksema, Jacob Leloux, Willem Schnitger)

• Sport Fishing Netherlands

  (Toine Aarts)

• Zoological Museum Amsterdam

  (Herman de Jong, Vincent Nijman, Pjotr Oosterbroek, Dirk Platvoet, Tineke Prins, Kees Roselaar, Rob van Soest, Sandrine Ulenberg, Ronald Vonk)

Dutch data providers “biodiversity data portal”

• CBS Statistics Netherlands: ESRI files of municipalities

  (http://www.cbs.nl)

• Fauna Europaea

  (Yde de Jong)

• Institute for Inland Water Management and Waste Water Treatment RIZA / EcoSys: TaxaBase

  (Ton Berkhout, Arnold Veen)

• Landschap Noord-Holland: ESRI files of conservation areas

  (Ron van 't Veer, Martin Witteveldt)

• Meertens Institute: PLAND databank

  (Hans Bennis, Har Brok, Joep Kruijsen, Jan-Pieter Kunst, Maarten van der Peet)

• Natura 2000: ESRI files of conservation areas

  (Annemiek Adams)

• Natuurmonumenten: ESRI files of conservation areas

  (Rombout de Wijs)

• Plant Resources of Tropical Africa: Protabase

  (Stefan Bertrums)

• PWN: ESRI files of conservation areas

  (Hubert Kivit)

• Staatsbosbeheer: ESRI files of conservation areas

  (Jac Hakkens)

• Waarneming.nl

  (Mark van Veen, Dylan Verheul, Hisko de Vries)

GBIF webservices and technical support

• (Andrea Hahn, Donald Hobern)

Site and data portal development, maintenance and management:

ETI BioInformatics