Biodiversity Week 2007 (May 20th to May 26th):
Information at: www.noticenature.ie, and
www.eengosec.ie, or
e-mail: biodiversityweek@gmail.com
See also the new Biodiversity Website developed by the Heritage Council in conjunction with Biology.ie at: www.Biology.ie Heritage Week 2007 (August 25th to September 2nd).
To register your event or find out more see:
www.heritageweek.ie, or
Callsave 1850 200 878, or
e-mail: events @heritagecouncil.com www.planetbob.asu.edu video on why we need taxonomy & the importance of Biodiversity www.gbif.org/ Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Introduction to Cladistics
Journey into the World of Cladistics
Introduction to Phylogeny
European Working Group on Research and Biodiversity (EWGRB)
Electronic conference on research and Biodiversity
European Biodiversity; EnviroWindows
BSPonline.org A Biodiversity Support Programme website established by WWF and others.
Global Biodiversity Information Society (GBIF)
www.naturalis.nl
www.nhn.leidenuniv.nl
www.science.uva.nl/zma
www.bis.wur.nl/UK/Organisation/Herbarium
Animals4ever:a non-profit organization in Belgium, has put its website online.The site aims to group all animals in one place. It is extreemly interactive.
RE: US Federal Government Taxonomy Standard; Taxacom List Server Archives; Biodiversity recording discussion
Integrated Taxonomical Information System (ITIS); Whats new about ITIS
Integrated Taxonomical Information System (ITIS) Organisation
Integrated Taxonomical Information System (ITIS) Data Status
Standards in Taxonomy; UK Projects; NBN
Data Exchange Standards; NBN
New Directions in Systematics; Taxacom List Server Archives;
The Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI)
The Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI); News
The Internet Biodiversity Service; gives access to information about biological systematics, ecology and evolution and enables analyses to be made of selections. For example, there are large sets of global data from which plots of maps and graphs can be made for modern and fossil occurrences
Internet Biodiversity Service
www.bioplatform.info European Platform for Biodiversity: lots of information of biodiversity conservation
Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU Network of Excellence (marbef.org) European Marine Biodiversity
Developing Museum and cultural grids on the web in the Uk
National Biodiversity Network Taxon Dictionary - Further Detail
Classification Society of North America Newsletter April 1995, Issue #39
Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server at Cornell
DELTA Home Page (DEscriptive Language for Taxonomy
The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Navigator for the Internet
Cambridge School of Biological Sciences
Computers in Teaching Initiative (CTI) Centre for Biology Home Page - Liverpool University
Science : Biology - Yahoo Index
BIOSIS: www.biosis.org.uk
BIOSIS: SITE MAP to Free Resources
BIOSIS: Animal Index
BIOSIS: Subject Index
Systematics, Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Key site with lots biodiversity links
Internet Resources for Zoology
Zoological Record Home Page
BIOSIS: Index to Organism Names
Counts of New and Changed Names Reported in Zoological Record
Conference Calendar for Zoology
Classification Society of North America
Biodiversity and Ecosystems NEtwork (BENE)
NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) Home Page
Seaweed home page at the M.R.I., University College, Galway
Natural History Book Service - Home Page Museums Around the World: Ireland
National Museum of Ireland
BioDiversity Beta 2; useful for analyses of species diversity data; a free package.
The Global Biodiversity Information FacilityThe International Biodiversity Observation Year 2001-2002 will be officially launched on 31st december 2000. A website is now online at : http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/IBOY
A Marine Diversity project has been accepted : Biodiversity at sea: a set of sustainable indicators (http://www.nrel.colostate.edu/IBOY/how_changing.html)It will be developped at different geographic scales. Species 2000 (project to list all species in world)
Guide to Museums and Cultural Resources
Museum Computer Network: Museum Sites Online Links to over 1,000 international museum and museum-related WWW sites.
Communication of the European Commission to the Council and to the Parliament on a European Community Biodiversity Strategy
Report of the European Working Group on Research and Biodiversity (EWGRB)
The Eurostat indicators of pressure on environment
European electronic conference on research and biodiversity Europa: The European Union on line
1. The Communication of the European Commission to its Parliament concerning how the Convention on Biological Diversity would be implemented by the European Union is available at:
http://europa.eu.int:80/en/comm/dg11/docum/9842en.pdf
This is a most important document and covers all sectors, including research. 2. The European Commission environmental research section of DGXII funded a Working Group on Research in biodiversity (EWGRB) in 1997 which produced a report available on the world wide web. This report is being used to direct research funding on biodiversity in Europe and is specifically refered to in the EC Communication mentioned in Point 1 above. The EWGRB report and other Information is available on the web at:
www.oden.se/~ewgrb
www.algonet.se/~bear
www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/5711/index.html 3. A European Science Foundation study group has recently produced a plan for marine biodiversity research. It is available on the web at:
www.esf.org/mpb/Marbio.html
The European Science Foundation
The European Science Foundation: Index: www.esf.org/esf_scientific_home.php
The European Science Foundation: Programmes: www.esf.org/esf_domain_activity.php?domain=3&activity=1&language=0
MARBENA Creating a long term infrastructure for MARine Biodiversity research in the European economic area and the Newly Associated states
BioCASE A Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
BioCASE: National node for Ireland serviced by Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd. (EcoServe)
FAUNA EUROPAEA Compilation of a public WWW service on the scientific names and distribution of the present living multicellular European terrestrial and freshwater animal species
European Register of Marine Species (ERMS) Co-ordinators of the development of a European register of marine species, list of identification guides and database of taxonomic experts
The importance of biological diversity was acknowledged at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 when the vast majority of the world's governments signed the Convention on Biological Diversity. Since this time The Conference of the Parties has advanced implementation of the Convention through the decisions it takes at its periodic meetings, the latest being COP-6 which happened in The Hague last April.
The Handbook of the Convention on Biological Diversity by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity contains the full texts of the Convention, the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and the decisions of the Conference of the Parties from 1994 to 2000. It also includes a free CD-Rom containing the electronic book of the Handbook, automatically indexed and cross-referenced, with full search facilities. For further information and to read a sample chapter visit:
www.earthscan.co.uk/asp/bookdetails.asp?key=3557 MARBEF: www.marbef.org is a European Union funded Sixth Framework network of excellence on marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning with over 50 partners across Europe. Census of marine life The Census of Marine Life is a growing global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future.
www.marlin.ac.uk
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