Links to Related Websites: Biodiversity

Links to taxon-specific sites on the World Wide Web can be found throughout the Tree of Life.

Global Biodiversity Projects

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections. Information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind.
• Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification. Promoting the broad use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge worldwide.
• DIVERSITAS. An International Programme of Biodiversity Science
• Biodiversity Conservation Information System (BCIS). A global partnership providing access to the most current knowledge about biodiversity.
• GBIF - The Global Biodiversity Information Facility. A project to create an interoperable network of biodiversity databases and information technology tools that will enable users to navigate and put to use the world’s vast quantities of biodiversity information to produce national economic, environmental and social benefits.
• BIODI. Advanced computational approaches to environmental and biodiversity information. San Diego Supercomputer Center.
• BioNet-International, the Global Network for Taxonomy. A world-wide, inter-governmental initiative for capacity building in taxonomy (biosystematics) in developing countries.
• Convention on Biological Diversity. United Nations Environment Programme.
• All Species Foundation.
• Conservation International. Using science, economics, policy, and community involvement to promote biodiversity conservation in tropical rain forests and other endangered ecosystems worldwide.
  • Biodiversity hotspots, the 25 richest and most threatened reservoirs of plant and animal life.
• World Wildlife Fund.
• Greenpeace International.
• The Nature Conservancy.
• Defenders of Wildlife.
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.
• NatureServe. A non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action. Association for Biodiversity Information in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network.
• Native Forest Network
• World Resources Institute. Information, ideas, and solutions to global environmental problems.
• World Land Trust. Seeking to conserve the World's tropical forests, as well as other biologically important habitats, which are threatened by destruction.
• Man and the Biosphere (MAB). An interdisciplinary programme of research and training intended to develop the basis for the rational use and conservation of the resources of the biosphere.
• Species Survival Commission. IUCN-International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
• Endangered Species. EE-Link: Environmental Education Resources on the Internet.
• Global Litter Invertebrate Decomposition Experiment (GLIDE).
• Census of Marine Life. A global network of researchers engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the ocean.
• Ocean Conservancy. Advocates for wild, healthy oceans.
• Marine Conservation Biology Institute. MCBI is a tax-exempt, nonprofit organization dedicated to safeguarding life in the sea by advancing the multidisciplinary science of marine conservation biology.
• ReefBase. An online information system on coral reefs.
• Oceanic Research Group. Dedicated to the conservation of the world's oceans through education.
• SeaWeb
• OceanLink
• Center for Biodiversity and Conservation. American Museum of Natural History.
• The Living Edens. PBS online.

Regional Biodiversity Projects

Africa

• African Wildlife Foundation.
• Endangered Wildlife Trust. Conservation of plant and animal species in southern Africa.
• Biota Africa. Sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
• Project Elgon. Mount Elgon National Park, Uganda.
• Gulf of Guinea Islands Biodiversity Network. Information about the biodiversity, and its conservation, of the four Gulf of Guinea islands of Bioko, Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón.
• Madagascar Biodiversity and Conservation. A photo essay by David R. Parks.
• Arabian Wildlife Online.
• Swaziland National Trust Commission. The parastatal organisation responsible for the conservation of nature and the cultural heritage of the Kingdom of Swaziland.
• BiodiversityExplorer. South African Museum.

Europe

• European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC). Furthering European nature conservation by bridging the gap between science and policy.
• European Environment Agency. Europe's gateway to environmental information.
  • European Community Biodiversity Clearing-House Mechanism. Supporting the Convention on Biological Diversity.
• Fauna Iberica. A project focussing on animal biodiversity in the Iberian-Balearican region.
• Swiss Biodiversity Forum.
• Biodiversity of the Black Sea Project. Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• Finnish Biodiversity Research Programme (FIBRE). A multidisciplinary six-year research programme focusing on biological, socio-economic and legal aspects of biodiversity.
• myNature.net. Biodiversity of Romania.

Central America and South America

• InfoNatura. A conservation and educational resource on the birds, mammals and amphibians of Latin America and the Caribbean.
• INBio - Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad. Costa Rica's National Biodiversity Institute.
• Biodiversity & Environmental Resource Data System of Belize (BERDS). A community-driven biodiversity and environmental data warehouse and research tool set.
• Centro de Referência em Informação Ambiental (CRIA). Brazil.
• Virtual Galapagos. TerraQuest expedition report.

North America

• Endangered Species Home Page. US Fish & Wildlife Service.
• Canada's Aquatic Environments. University of Guelph.
• Biological Resources Division (BRD). U.S. Geological Survey.
• Our Living Resources. A Report to the Nation on the Distribution, Abundance, and Health of U.S. Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. U.S. Department of the Interior. National Biological Service.
• Viva Natura. Mexican fauna, flora and ecosystems.
• Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO). Mexico's National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity.
• Discover Life in America. Great Smoky Mountains National Park's All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory.
• Sierra Club.
• National Wildlife Federation.
• Center for Biological Diversity. Protecting endangered species and wild places of western North America through science, policy, education, and environmental law.
• Information Center for the Environment. UC Davis.
• nearctica. The Natural World of North America.
• PISCO. Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans. A large-scale marine research program that focuses on understanding the nearshore ecosystems of the U.S. West Coast.
• Bering Climate. A current view of the Bering Sea ecosystem and climate.
• Sevilleta Long-Term Ecological Research Program. University of New Mexico.
• South Florida Ecosystem History Project. U.S. Geological Survey.
• Chihuahuan Desert Home Page.
• Nature of New England.
• Natural History of Orange County, California.
• eNature.com. Online field guides to North American plants and animals.

North Pacific

• Hawaii Biological Survey Web Site.
• International Kuril Island Project. An international collaboration of American, Russian, and Japanese scientists to survey the biodiversity of the Kuril Archipelago.

South Pacific

• Environment Australia Online: Biodiversity Group. Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage.
• Australian Biodiversity Information Facility-Fauna. A web based source of taxonomic and biological information for all animal species known to occur in Australia.
• Association Endemia. Faune & Flore de Nouvelle-Calédonie.
• Virtual Antarctica. TerraQuest expedition report.

Miscellaneous Biodiversity Resources

• World Atlas of Biodiversity. UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
• Major Biomes of the World. Susan L. Woodward, The Virtual Geography Department Project and the Department of Geography, Radford University.
• Biodiversity and Conservation. A Hypertext Book by Peter J. Bryant. University of California, Irvine.
• Early Classics in Biogeography, Distribution, and Diversity Studies: To 1950. A bibliography and full-text archive designed as a service to advanced students and researchers engaged in work in biogeography, biodiversity, history of science, and related studies. Charles H. Smith, Western Kentucky University.

Links to biodiversity databases are provided on the page for Links to Databases, Directories, Organizations and Societies.
Links to taxon-specific sites on the World Wide Web can be found throughout the Tree of Life.

Last updated 22 February 2007