The Biodiversity Lab is designed to provide a collection of applications that allow scholars to perform complete experiments involving single individuals or groups of marine species. This VRE allows to perform the following tasks: Inspect species maps and occurences data, Inspect species descriptions and characteristics, Produce a species distribution map by means of either an expert system (AquaMaps) or a machine learning model, Analyse species observation trends, Cluster occurrence data, Perform analysis of climatic changes and of its effect on species distribution, Produce GIS maps for geo-spatial datasets, Discover Taxa names, Estimate similarities among habitats. In addition to the basic functionality, as a workspace for sharing objects of interest, a social networking area for supporting the discussions among members and a user management facility for managing membership, this VLab is specifically equipped with the following capabilities: Species Data Discovery, a facility enabling users to discover and manage species data products (occurrence data and taxonomic data) from a number of heterogeneous providers (including GBIF and speciesLink for occurrences data, as well as ASFIS, BrazilianFlora, CatalogueOfLife, IRMNG, IT IS, NCBI, WoRDSS, WoRMS for taxonomic data) in a seamless way. Once discovered, objects can be stored in the workspace for future uses; Species View, a facility enabling users to discover and browse species products (namely species distribution maps); Geospatial Data View, a facility enabling users to discover and visualize GIS layers, e.g. species distribution maps that have been generated and published; Data Analytics at Scale, a facility enabling users to benefit from the offerings of the DataMiner service and interactively execute a large array of data analytics tasks on datasets; Algorithm Importer, a facility enabling users to transform R-based algorithms and methods into DataMiner algorithms, i.e. methods that can be executed by the data analytics platform; Data Catalogue, a facility enabling users to access the BlueBRIDGE products catalogue containing, fot he time being, 48.2k species distribution maps; R Studio as-a-Service, a facility enabling users to access a fully-fledged RStudio® working environment directly from the VRE; Semantic-based Data Discovery, a facility enabling users to search and browse the MarineTLO Data Warehouse.