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Checklists/New/Import

Checklist Hub pulls species in from three kinds of sources at once, and merges them into a single list. Click through the literature sub-steps below to see each stage of the pipeline.

The Import step showing aggregated species counts from GBIF, eBird, and iNaturalist

Click a step below to see it highlighted in the screenshot.

  1. 1

    Global occurrence data

    As soon as the taxonomic scope and region are set, evidence is fetched automatically from GBIF, iNaturalist, and eBird — the repositories Checklist Hub currently supports — no upload needed.

  2. 2

    Field data

    Manually collected field data can also be uploaded — drop a CSV, TSV, JSON, or Excel species list into the upload box, or skip the file entirely. Columns should be organized as: Scientific Name (required), plus Common Name, Occurrence Count, and Event Date if available — all optional, and matched automatically by column header.

  3. 3

    Literature pipeline

    Deep Literature Search finds, ranks, and extracts a species list from published sources, in three stages:

    1. 3.1Discover literature

      Searches the web for documents that are strictly taxon and region specific to the checklist. If you already have a paper in mind, you can add literature manually instead of waiting on discovery.

    2. 3.2Rank literature

      Every discovered source is scored from 100 down to 75based on how relevant it is to the checklist's taxon and region.

    3. 3.3Extract species

      Sources scored 75 and above are used to extract a species list straight from the papers.

Names from every source are checked against the GBIF Backbone and Catalogue of Life as they come in, with synonyms resolved automatically. Imported and discovered species land together in the same merged list, ready for the Review step.

Define scope and taxaReview the checklist