Index of Services

This page should help you decide which service(s) you may want to use. If you are new to web services, we recommend visiting New to Web Services, otherwise the information at Essentials, in conjunction with the service documentation, should be sufficient.

Name	Type of data	Version	Description
Global Comprehensive Species	Biological	1.1	NatureServe Explorer provides data on over 70,000 of the plant and animal species of the United States and Canada. The Global Comprehensive Species Service provides direct access to this species data in easy to manipulate XML format, ideal for further analysis.
Species Images	Images	1.0	NatureServe Explorer provides access to a collection of species images. The Species Images Service provides direct access to the metadata for those images, including the URL's for the image files themselves. Searches may be conducted for a single species, or by wildcarded scientific or common name. Since an image may be available at multiple resolutions, the service can be asked, for instance, for just the thumbnail version. The URL's for related versions at other resolutions are shown in the response.
Global Species List by Name	Lookup	1.0	This service primarily enables the lookup of species Unique IDs (UID) by name. These UIDs are required for access to the more detailed services.