Documentation

Manual

The manual in English (last updated December 2011) and in Spanish (Versión en español, last updated January 2004))

Training manual

The Scheldeman and Van Zonneveld (Bioversity International) Training Manual on Spatial Analysis of Plant Diversity and Distribution.

Basic mapping and GIS techniques using DIVA-GIS by Chris Legg (IITA). Handout in English and French and the data.

Tutorial

Download the tutorial and the accompanying data.

Some help with climate data, niche modeling, and clm files by Julian Ramirez and Aaron Bueno-Cabrera.

Exercises

Diversity of wild potatoes - handout and data

Modeling the distribution of wild peanuts handout and data

Examples of DIVA-GIS use

An old list of research articles

Frequently Asked Questions

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Short paper describing DIVA-GIS 1.4 in the Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter

A review paper about the use of GIS in plant genetic resources conservation

A PowerPoint presentation about data cleaning and a discussion of species occurrence data quality, cleaning and uses by Arthur Chapman

Paper about data bias, and data cleaning