Biodiversity
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- All Species Foundation - aims to catalogue all species in 25 years.
- Animal Diversity Web - nice educational site with details about species.
- Animal Info - impressive site by an endangered mamals specialist in the US.
- Association for Biodiversity Information - a US organisation providing information mainly for and about North and Latin America but with a large series of links to other areas of the topic.
- Australian Biological Resources Study - the continent's flora and fauna in databases.
- Biodiversity - part of the US Government's National Biological Information Infrastructure's website. A detailed look at the basics of biodiversity.
- Biodiversity - The Ecological Society of America's information factsheet.
- Biodiversity Action Network - a US NGO (BIONET) co-ordinating information on biodiversity.
- Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server - a large portal for detail information of use to systematists.
- Biodiversity and Conservation - a hypertext book.
- Biodiversity and WorldMap - a UK Natural History Museum project.
- Biodiversity at the OECD - practical look at the topic from a major organisation.
- Biodiversity Data Portal - Part of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Biodiversity Hotspots - Conservation International's Interactive website.
- Biodiversity: Overview - basic outline of the topic.
- Biodiversity Project - US non-profit group aiming to bring the central ecological message of biodiversity to a wider community audience.
- Biodiversity and Worldmap - a Natural History Museum initiative as part of the CBD work.
- Biodiversity Support Programme - applied aspects of biodiversity.
- Bioimages - virtual fieldguide to UK organisms. Very large database of images.
- British Natural History - Guide from the Natural History Museum
- Census of Marine Life - 10-year project aimed at cataloguing ocean biodiversity. See the database
- Committee on Recently Extinct Organisms - US database for mammals and fish.
- Convention on Biological Diversity - UNEP site. See also the Global Biodiversity Outlook
- DAISIE- European invasive species site
- Ecology and Biodiversity - part of the virtual library project this site focusses on gathering information about ecology and biodiversity resources on the web.
- electronic Biologia Centrali-Americana. Beautiful reproduction of a key late 19th Century series.
- European Bird Census Council - pan-European research
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility - gathers data - check out the new database.
- Global Crop Diversity Trust - does for agricultural crops what everyone else tries to do for wildlife.
- International Biodiversity Observation Year 2001-2002. Get more information for this project from this website.
- National Biodiversity Network - UK site gathering biodiversity information.
- Quebec Biodiversity Site - Despite the parochial title, a really good basic educational site.
- Species 2000 - aims to catalogue all species as a biodiversity baseline.
- The Palaeobiology Database - searchable database of the Fossil Record. New in 2003.
- Tree of Life - searchable database showing species' diversity
- UK Biodiversity - New website for the UKs Biodiversity Action Plan.
- World Resources Institute - Biodiversity. Good general description about biodiversity and human impact. Links to related topics.