NatureServe Web Services enable you to create dynamic, customized Web applications that interact directly with the NatureServe biodiversity databases. Using Web Services, data users can:

• Access comprehensive data on the location and distribution of species populations and ecological communities from a single Internet source.
• Obtain near real-time access to the most recent biological inventories and taxonomic changes.
• Access and analyze data in your own applications, such as a GIS.
• Easily compare data developed across multiple states

What's New

• NatureServe Species Schemas version 1.0 and NatureServe Species Occurrence Schemas version 1.0 ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR USE!
• Using the Species Name Search and Get Species Data services, you can retrieve NatureServe Explorer species reports directly into your own applications.
• Jump-start your application development with our code samples and tutorials.