Iceland Index. A plot of raw species counts from equal-area hexagons approximately the size of Iceland. This plot excludes international waters, but includes countries EEZ areas. We see here that while Iceland has >5K species other areas within Amazonia, Eastern Europe, and Africa have suspiciously fewer, indicating a likely data gap.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://data-blog.gbif.org/post/gbif-regional-statistics-2020/
Could equal-area hexagons be used for the standard map in the portal?
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Just change to hexagons using the paint roller icon 
What is the surface area of these hexagons?
@wilsotc I will have to look up the exact area. Also @kcopas, I am pretty sure the hexgons on the gbif portal are not equal area! You can tell because of how many are located in Greenland vs Africa 
The hexagons are based off of https://www.discreteglobalgrids.org/ at resolution 6 I believe.
I’ve been working on a portal that displays record density by surface area with the hexagonal cell surface area displayed in the map key.
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