As you are well aware your data are valuable only as they correlate with those of others. Thus you must know what other experimenters have observed and they should know what you have seen.
Biologists use informal channels such as personal conversations and letters as do other people.
Radio and television are also employed. Lectures are included under this rubric. Formal information exchange occurs through published professional journals and books. Reports at professional meetings fall half-way between the formal and informal and usually are formalized as a printed abstract published in a journal. One is through the bibliographies of texts and the other is through Biological Abstracts.