About NaturaList
NaturaList is a flexible biodiversity data platform for publishing, exploring, and analysing biological datasets. It supports both formal scientific and indigenous/folk taxonomies, handles everything from simple species lists to fully annotated occurrence catalogues, and comes with powerful filtering, search, interactive taxonomic tree and other data visualisation and exploration tools.
NaturaList doesn't come with a pre-defined structure you would have to fit your project into. Your taxonomy, your data fields, and the way they are displayed are all defined in a single spreadsheet - making it easy to set up, update, or extend your dataset without any IT expertise or complex software code customization. Individual occurrence records like specimens or observations can be attached to taxa, turning the app into a lightweight collection management tool where species-level and occurrence-level data coexist and can be explored independently.
Beyond browsing the taxonomic tree, NaturaList lets you and your users explore data through several analytical lenses: a proportional bubble chart of taxonomic composition, a trait matrix for comparing attributes across taxa, a regional distribution choropleth map. Filter arrays can function as a multi-access key and dedicated interactive single-access identification keys engine is available, both narrowing the dataset in real time as choices are made.
NaturaList is a Progressive Web App - it works in any browser and can be installed on any device (phone, tablet, laptop) appearing as a native app to work fully offline, making it as useful in a remote field site as at a desk.
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Who is this documentation for?
This documentation serves two distinct audiences:
Project authors - researchers, curators, educators, and anyone building and publishing a biodiversity dataset with NaturaList. The Author Guide is your primary resource. If you want to publish your own data, this is the place for you.
End users - anyone browsing a published NaturaList project. The User Guide walks through the screens and controls. If you want to start using NaturaList project someone else created, or want to let your audience know how to use the app, this link is the right one.