Agent skill

Biodiversity Data Guide

by wentorai in wentorai/research-plugins

Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools

MITAuto-check passedBackend & APIs

Install Biodiversity Data Guide

skills CLI
$ npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill biodiversity-data-guide -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install wentorai/research-plugins biodiversity-data-guide --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wentorai/research-plugins.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/domains/ecology/biodiversity-data-guide .claude/skills/biodiversity-data-guide && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

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Facts

Skill name
biodiversity-data-guide
GitHub stars
298
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~2.2k tokens
SKILL.md length
259 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
405
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools

  • Works in 6 steps: Coordinate validation: Flag points in… → Taxonomic verification: Match names… → Temporal consistency: Remove records… → …
  • Backend & APIs work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Major Biodiversity Data Sources, Querying GBIF (Species…, Species Distribution Modeling and Phylogenetic Analysis, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Biodiversity Data Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins. Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools

Its SKILL.md is about 2.2k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Backend & APIs. It works with NCBI. The repository describes itself as: 350+ academic research skills, MCP configs, and plugins for Research-Claw and AI agents. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Backend & APIs work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/biodiversity-data-guide”

Requirements

  • Python 3

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Coordinate validation: Flag points in oceans for terrestrial species (and vice versa)
  2. Taxonomic verification: Match names against Catalogue of Life or GBIF backbone
  3. Temporal consistency: Remove records with impossible dates
  4. Duplicate detection: Remove spatial and temporal duplicates
  5. Environmental outliers: Flag occurrences in climatically unsuitable areas
  6. Sampling bias correction: Use spatial thinning or bias files in SDMs

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit bf44b3c. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are r and python).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Biodiversity Data Guide loads about 2.2k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 23 tokens; SKILL.md has 259 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~23
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~2.2k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

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SKILL.md

The full file from wentorai/research-plugins at commit bf44b3c, republished under its MIT licence (© wentorai). 259 words, ~2,222 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/biodiversity-data-guide/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
biodiversity-data-guide
description
Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools

Biodiversity Data Guide

Access, analyze, and visualize biodiversity data from global databases including GBIF, iNaturalist, and GenBank for ecological and evolutionary research.

Major Biodiversity Data Sources

DatabaseContentRecordsAPICost
GBIFSpecies occurrence records2.4B+YesFree
iNaturalistCitizen science observations180M+YesFree
GenBank (NCBI)Genetic sequences250M+YesFree
BOLD SystemsDNA barcode records15M+YesFree
eBirdBird observations1.3B+YesFree
IUCN Red ListConservation status160,000+YesFree (with key)
OBISMarine biodiversity100M+YesFree
Catalogue of LifeTaxonomic backbone2M+ speciesYesFree
TRY Plant TraitPlant functional traits12M+RequestFree
WorldClimClimate data (rasters)GlobalDownloadFree

Querying GBIF (Species Occurrences)

Python (pygbif)
python
from pygbif import species as sp
from pygbif import occurrences as occ

# Search for a species by name
name_result = sp.name_backbone(name="Panthera tigris", rank="species")
taxon_key = name_result["usageKey"]
print(f"GBIF taxon key: {taxon_key}")
print(f"Status: {name_result['status']}")
print(f"Kingdom: {name_result['kingdom']}")

# Get occurrence records
results = occ.search(
    taxonKey=taxon_key,
    hasCoordinate=True,       # Only georeferenced records
    country="IN",             # India
    limit=100,
    year="2020,2024",         # Year range
    basisOfRecord="HUMAN_OBSERVATION"
)

print(f"Total records matching: {results['count']}")
for record in results["results"][:5]:
    print(f"  [{record.get('year')}] {record.get('decimalLatitude'):.4f}, "
          f"{record.get('decimalLongitude'):.4f} - {record.get('datasetName', 'N/A')}")
R (rgbif)
r
library(rgbif)
library(sf)
library(ggplot2)

# Get occurrence data
tiger_key <- name_backbone(name = "Panthera tigris")$usageKey

occurrences <- occ_search(
  taxonKey = tiger_key,
  hasCoordinate = TRUE,
  limit = 500,
  year = "2020,2024",
  basisOfRecord = "HUMAN_OBSERVATION"
)

# Convert to spatial data
occ_df <- occurrences$data
coords <- occ_df[, c("decimalLongitude", "decimalLatitude")]
occ_sf <- st_as_sf(coords, coords = c("decimalLongitude", "decimalLatitude"),
                    crs = 4326)

# Map occurrences
world <- rnaturalearth::ne_countries(scale = "medium", returnclass = "sf")
ggplot() +
  geom_sf(data = world, fill = "grey90") +
  geom_sf(data = occ_sf, color = "red", size = 1, alpha = 0.5) +
  coord_sf(xlim = c(60, 150), ylim = c(-10, 50)) +
  labs(title = "Panthera tigris occurrences (2020-2024)") +
  theme_minimal()
ggsave("tiger_map.pdf", width = 10, height = 6)

Species Distribution Modeling

MaxEnt Workflow
r
library(dismo)
library(raster)

# 1. Get occurrence data
occ_data <- occ_search(taxonKey = tiger_key, hasCoordinate = TRUE,
                       limit = 1000)$data
occ_points <- occ_data[, c("decimalLongitude", "decimalLatitude")]
occ_points <- na.omit(occ_points)

# 2. Get environmental predictors (WorldClim bioclimatic variables)
bioclim <- getData("worldclim", var = "bio", res = 10)
# bio1 = Annual Mean Temperature
# bio12 = Annual Precipitation
# bio4 = Temperature Seasonality
# ... (19 bioclimatic variables total)

# 3. Extract environmental values at occurrence points
env_values <- extract(bioclim, occ_points)

# 4. Generate background (pseudo-absence) points
bg_points <- randomPoints(bioclim, n = 10000)

# 5. Fit MaxEnt model
me_model <- maxent(bioclim, occ_points, a = bg_points,
                    args = c("betamultiplier=1.5",
                             "responsecurves=true"))

# 6. Predict habitat suitability
prediction <- predict(me_model, bioclim)
plot(prediction, main = "Predicted Habitat Suitability")
points(occ_points, pch = 16, cex = 0.5)

# 7. Evaluate model
eval_result <- evaluate(me_model, p = occ_points, a = bg_points,
                        x = bioclim)
print(paste("AUC:", round(eval_result@auc, 3)))

Phylogenetic Analysis

Building a Phylogeny
r
library(ape)
library(phytools)

# Read alignment (FASTA format)
alignment <- read.FASTA("aligned_sequences.fasta")

# Distance-based tree (Neighbor-Joining)
dist_matrix <- dist.dna(alignment, model = "TN93")
nj_tree <- nj(dist_matrix)

# Root the tree
rooted_tree <- root(nj_tree, outgroup = "outgroup_species")

# Plot phylogeny
plot(rooted_tree, type = "phylogram", cex = 0.8)
axisPhylo()

# Maximum likelihood tree (using phangorn)
library(phangorn)
data_phyDat <- phyDat(alignment, type = "DNA")
ml_tree <- pml_bb(data_phyDat, model = "GTR+G+I",
                   rearrangement = "NNI")
Comparative Methods
r
library(caper)

# Phylogenetic independent contrasts
# Test whether body mass predicts home range size
# while accounting for phylogenetic relatedness

trait_data <- data.frame(
  species = c("Sp_A", "Sp_B", "Sp_C", "Sp_D"),
  body_mass = c(5.2, 12.1, 3.8, 45.0),
  home_range = c(10, 25, 8, 120)
)

# Create comparative data object
comp_data <- comparative.data(
  phy = rooted_tree,
  data = trait_data,
  names.col = species,
  vcv = TRUE
)

# Phylogenetic Generalized Least Squares (PGLS)
pgls_model <- pgls(log(home_range) ~ log(body_mass),
                    data = comp_data,
                    lambda = "ML")  # Estimate Pagel's lambda
summary(pgls_model)

Ecological Data Analysis

Diversity Metrics
python
import numpy as np
from scipy.stats import entropy

def calculate_diversity(abundance_vector):
    """Calculate common biodiversity metrics."""
    n = np.array(abundance_vector)
    N = n.sum()
    p = n / N  # Relative abundances
    p = p[p > 0]  # Remove zeros

    return {
        "species_richness": len(n[n > 0]),
        "shannon_H": entropy(p, base=np.e),
        "simpson_D": 1 - np.sum(p**2),
        "evenness_J": entropy(p, base=np.e) / np.log(len(p)),
        "fisher_alpha": estimate_fisher_alpha(n),
        "total_abundance": int(N)
    }

def estimate_fisher_alpha(n):
    """Estimate Fisher's alpha diversity parameter."""
    from scipy.optimize import brentq
    S = len(n[n > 0])
    N = n.sum()
    def equation(alpha):
        return alpha * np.log(1 + N/alpha) - S
    try:
        return brentq(equation, 0.1, 1000)
    except ValueError:
        return np.nan

# Example: Bird community survey
abundances = [45, 23, 12, 8, 5, 3, 2, 1, 1]
metrics = calculate_diversity(abundances)
for key, val in metrics.items():
    print(f"  {key}: {val:.4f}" if isinstance(val, float) else f"  {key}: {val}")
Community Analysis
r
library(vegan)

# Species abundance matrix (sites x species)
community <- matrix(c(
  10, 5, 3, 0, 1,
  8, 12, 0, 2, 3,
  0, 1, 15, 8, 0,
  2, 0, 12, 10, 1
), nrow = 4, byrow = TRUE,
dimnames = list(paste0("Site", 1:4), paste0("Sp", 1:5)))

# Alpha diversity
diversity(community, index = "shannon")  # Shannon H
diversity(community, index = "simpson")  # Simpson 1-D

# Beta diversity (Bray-Curtis dissimilarity)
bc_dist <- vegdist(community, method = "bray")

# NMDS ordination
nmds <- metaMDS(community, distance = "bray", k = 2)
plot(nmds, type = "t")

# PERMANOVA (testing group differences)
env_data <- data.frame(habitat = c("forest", "forest", "grassland", "grassland"))
adonis2(community ~ habitat, data = env_data, method = "bray")

Data Standards and Best Practices

Darwin Core Standard

Darwin Core (DwC) is the standard schema for biodiversity data exchange:

TermDescriptionExample
scientificNameFull taxonomic name"Panthera tigris (Linnaeus, 1758)"
decimalLatitudeLatitude in decimal degrees27.1751
decimalLongitudeLongitude in decimal degrees78.0421
eventDateDate of observation"2024-03-15"
basisOfRecordType of record"HUMAN_OBSERVATION"
coordinateUncertaintyInMetersSpatial precision100
institutionCodeData provider"iNaturalist"
Data Quality Checks
  1. Coordinate validation: Flag points in oceans for terrestrial species (and vice versa)
  2. Taxonomic verification: Match names against Catalogue of Life or GBIF backbone
  3. Temporal consistency: Remove records with impossible dates
  4. Duplicate detection: Remove spatial and temporal duplicates
  5. Environmental outliers: Flag occurrences in climatically unsuitable areas
  6. Sampling bias correction: Use spatial thinning or bias files in SDMs

© wentorai, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/domains/ecology/biodiversity-data-guide of wentorai/research-plugins.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit bf44b3c

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in wentorai/research-plugins, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Biodiversity Data Guide

What does Biodiversity Data Guide do?

Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools. Biodiversity Data Guide is an agent skill from wentorai/research-plugins.

When should I use Biodiversity Data Guide?

Biodiversity Data Guide fits situations like: backend & APIs work in your project.

How do I install Biodiversity Data Guide in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill biodiversity-data-guide -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/ecology/biodiversity-data-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .claude/skills/biodiversity-data-guide in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Biodiversity Data Guide in Codex?

Run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill biodiversity-data-guide -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/domains/ecology/biodiversity-data-guide in wentorai/research-plugins) into .agents/skills/biodiversity-data-guide in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Biodiversity Data Guide in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add wentorai/research-plugins --skill biodiversity-data-guide -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/biodiversity-data-guide, .gemini/skills/biodiversity-data-guide, .github/skills/biodiversity-data-guide and .opencode/skills/biodiversity-data-guide in your project.

What does Biodiversity Data Guide need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Biodiversity Data Guide is instructions for the agent only. Our summary lists: Python 3.

Does Biodiversity Data Guide access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Biodiversity Data Guide safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Biodiversity Data Guide use?

Biodiversity Data Guide is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Biodiversity Data Guide use?

About 2.2k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 8.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

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Who maintains Biodiversity Data Guide?

wentorai (a GitHub user) maintains it in wentorai/research-plugins, which has 298 GitHub stars. The repository holds 405 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 19, 2026.

Source: wentorai/research-plugins on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.