PORBIOTA supports the mobilization and analysis of biodiversity and environmental systems, in several areas

PORBIOTA as a Portuguese Research Infrastructure (RI) distributed, is responsible for data storage and organization, providing open access platforms on biodiversity in the following areas:

 Species occurrence - promoting access and scientific use of primary biodiversity data

 Genetics and environmental metagenomics - construction and provision of a reference collection of DNA sequences barcoding

 Ecosystem monitoring - long-term ecological research and monitoring

 Carbon fluxes - monitoring carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases

 Natural science collections - digital unification of Portuguese natural science collections

The distributed and evolutionary development of PORBIOTA will facilitate its replication in other locations, with emphasis on the Portuguese speaking African countries and Brazil. This is a major boost for Portuguese science and technology, namely for the domain of natural sciences.