Global Biodiversity and Nature Assessment Tool

GBNAT offers global quantitative data on biodiversity, deforestation, human impact, and water risks, helping identify priority areas for assessing biodiversity impacts. Its ready-to-use output supports the Locate phase of TNFD, furthermore guiding decisions on commodity production, mining, and nature restoration.

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Key Features

Comprehensive datasets covering both terrestrial and marine realms:

GBNAT provides quantitative information on biodiversity and ecosystem for any location worldwide. Both terrestrial and marine environments are covered in our datasets, which include biodiversity importance and intactness, deforestation, human footprint, and water-related risks (pollution/flood/drought).

Your input is only the location of your activities:

By providing the location of your operations, GBNAT delivers statistics to help assess the biodiversity impact and dependence of your business in an evidence-based, quantitative manner.

Enabling you to nature-related information disclosure and strategy building:

You can use GBNAT to identify priority areas for assessing biodiversity risks, analyze the impact of commodity production or mining, and determine areas where nature restoration will have the greatest positive impact. The data is ready-to-use and applicable in the Locate phase of TNFD.

What is available on GBNAT?

GBNAT can provide biodiversity reports based on our spatial datasets for any given locations of terrestrial and marine realm. GBNAT's assessment includes not only the biodiversity itself, but ecosystem conditions including deforestation rate, human footprint increase, and water related indicators (water quality, flood risk, and drought risk). Please register to get sample reports.

Global and national biodiversity importance rank scores and maps around input locations

Visualization of biodiversity importance score calculated from +120,000 species for terrestrial and +30,000 species for marine species.

Global and national rankings of biodiversity intactness and ecosystems conditions and maps around input locations

Species richness and biodiversity importance by taxonomic groups

Biodiversity information by taxonomic groups using viewer-friendly radar charts.

Comparison of output metrics between locations

Rank order curve for input locations and csv output of selected data to prioritize locations for action.

Contextualization of each site at the global level based on an assessment of the importance and intactness of biodiversity

Visualization of biodiversity importance score calculated from +120,000 species for terrestrial and +30,000 species for marine species.

List of threatened species

The list helps you to understand potential threat of your activity to species with high conservation priority.

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Marine

Terrestrial

Marine

Terrestrial

Marine

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+120,000

Terrestrial species

10+

Years of Experience

+150

Data layers

+30,000

Marine species

List of metrics

Terrestrial

Biodiversity Metrics

Biodiversity Importance
Biodiversity Intactness

Ecosystem Condition Metrics

Deforestation
Human footprint increase
Water quality
Flood probability
Water shortage

Species Data

Broadleaf Trees, Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians & Freshwater Fishes

Marine

Biodiversity Metrics

Biodiversity Importance
Biodiversity Intactness

Species Data

Marine Fishes, Marine Mammals, Sea Birds. Marine Reptiles, Marine Crustaceans, Marine Shells, Stony Corals & Marine Algae

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT Overview

Data and methodologies behind GBNAT

GBNAT is based on data and methodological innovations that address issues such as insufficiency in resolution and comprehensiveness around the use of biodiversity data in business. For more information, see the following document.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT Metrics 1/8

Biodiversity Importance (Marine)

An indicator of the importance of site's biodiversity in terms of extinction risk reduction, calculated using the species composition of +30,000 marine species, ranging from O to1, with higher values indicating greater importance. Based on the distribution and rarity of each species, sites are ranked to have the least species loss. It is a direct indicator of priority areas that should be conserved.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 2/8

Biodiversity Intanctness

Habitat maps and natural forest distribution data were used to compute the distribution of various natural habitats and artificial environments. Ecosystem integrity was spatially layered by multiplying the obtained spatial layers by a coefficient (MSA value that is 1 for natural conditions and less than 1 if modified: CISL (2020) values were used).

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 3/8

Ecoregion

Classification of Ecoregions.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 4/8

Forest area change

Using satellite image (Landsat) data, changes in globalforests (vegetation with a height greater than 5 m) were modelled and projected ona 1arcsec grid; the difference between the percent forest area in 2000 and the percent in 2020 was calculated.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 5/8

Human Footprint Increase

An index that integrates a person's pressure on the environment and scores it between 0 and 50. The increase in this value from 2000 to 2019. Geographic data on building construction, population, power infrastructure, farmland, roads, and canals were combined into a single footprint score.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 6/8

Water Quality Risk

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) represents the quantity of oxygen necessary for the microbial metabolism of organic substances present in water; a value of 2 or less indicates high quality water, such as a mountain stream. Using a global comprehensive dataset of water quality, we used Random Forest to estimate the linkages to environmental factors. Using this learning model, BOD values were projected globally.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 7/8

Flood Frequency

Created by counting the number of times a flood affected the area between 1985 and 2021.

Here are the spatial data layers behind GBNAT 8/8

Drought Possibility

AWARE index: an indicator of how little water is available; a value of 1 indicates that there is as much available water as the global average, while a value of 10 indicates that there is only 1/10th of the global average.

Our and Scientific Background

Our background is in macroecology and biodiversity conservation science. Our products are based on state-of-the-art scientific knowledge from seven PhD holders. We have developed more than 40 million species distribution data points and more than 100 spatial data layers over more than 10 years of research and have published more than 100 papers in collaborative research networks in more than 10 countries. The list of selected publications is here.

Our Publications

How to Use

GBNAT has an easy-to-use web-based interface.

Pricing

GBNAT has a transparent pricing structure. Prices are calculated based on the number of layers and locations you select. There is a discount for each incremental increase in the number of points you evaluate. Here are approximate prices based on the number of locations. In reality, the number of locations and the set of layers vary depending on the user's choice. Evaluation can be done from a minimum of one location (maximum 200). For more than 200 locations, please contact us via inquiry form.

Type & Location	30 locations	50 locations	100 locations	150 locations	200 locations
Terrestrial Basics	$6, 600	$10,200	$15,700	$21,200	$24,500
Terrestrial Detailed	$8, 000	$12,200	$18,800	$25,400	$29,300
Marine Basics	$6, 600	$10,200	$15,700	$21,200	$24,500
Marine Detailed	$8, 000	$12,200	$18,800	$25,400	$29,300

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Global Biodiversity and Nature Assessment Tool

Key Features

Comprehensive datasets covering both terrestrial and marine realms:

Your input is only the location of your activities:

Enabling you to nature-related information disclosure and strategy building:

What is available on GBNAT?

Global and national biodiversity importance rank scores and maps around input locations

Global and national rankings of biodiversity intactness and ecosystems conditions and maps around input locations

Species richness and biodiversity importance by taxonomic groups

Comparison of output metrics between locations

Contextualization of each site at the global level based on an assessment of the importance and intactness of biodiversity

List of threatened species

More than 10 Years of Experience

List of metrics

Data and methodologies behind GBNAT

Biodiversity Importance (Marine)

Biodiversity Intanctness

Ecoregion

Forest area change

Human Footprint Increase

Water Quality Risk

Flood Frequency

Drought Possibility

Our and Scientific Background

How to Use

Pricing

You can access this link now to start evaluation of your business from the biodiversity perspective.

More than 10 Years
of Experience