Biodiversity Assessments & Conservation Biology

Endangered Species

Watershed Assessment

Miscellaneous

  • Ecology WWW Pages - As a service to students, teachers, researchers, and others interested in the science of ecology, this list was compiled by Anthony R. Brach (Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria, U.S.A.), and was originally posted on ECOLOG-L in March 1995.
  • The Biodiversity Conservation Network (BCN) is a $20-million, six-and-a-half-year program established in late 1992 to promote the conservation of biological diversity in several key sites across Asia and the Pacific
  • World Wildlife Fund
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • WRI
  • USAID
  • Convention on Biological Diversity
  • Convention on Biological Diversity - A Guide
  • Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server, devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind
  • World Conservation Monitoring Centre's Threatened Animals of the World Database The WCMC Animals Database, maintained by the WCMC Species Programme, holds information on threatened species and others of conservation concern. Part of this database is used to generate the IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, and this information is available here in interactive format
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals, representing a compilation of species that have been categorized as Critically Endangered, Endangered, and Vulnerable according to the IUCN Categories of Threat (see below).
  • IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants, though for Europe only
  • IUCN Red List Categories of Threat used to list species, as prepared by the IUCN Species Survival Commission
  • Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Lists
  • Internet Directory for Botany Easily the most comprehensive source of information on the field of Botany, world-wide!
  • Vascular Plant Families
  • Images
  • Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M. J. (1992 onwards). `The Families of Flowering Plants: Descriptions,

    • Illustrations, Identification, and Information Retrieval.' Version: 16th March 1997
  • Alternate Site: http://www.keil.ukans.edu/delta/angio/www/index.htm
  • United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service
  • PLANTS Database, allowing a search and species list download by state or territory
  • World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification
  • TAMU's Vascular Plant image pages
  • Listed by family in alphabetical order with families A through K
  • Listed by family in alphabetical order with families L through Z
  • DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy), a flexible method for encoding taxonomic descriptions for

    • computer processing
  • World Resources Institute - Biodiversity
  • Biodiversity Forum A non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of biological diversity worldwide, specializing in international conservation science and policy
  • WWW Resources in Biodiversity
  • The Evergreen Foundation (very grassroots organization, e.g., why do schoolyards look like prisons)
  • Role of Ecological Restoration in Biodiversity Conservation
  • Strategies For Biodiversity Conservation (Canadian Global Change Program)
  • Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity Developed by the Center for Conservation Biology Network (CCBN) at Rice University
  • Gap Analysis Home Page
  • Handbook for Conducting GAP Analysis
  • Content Standards For Gap Analysis Project Metadata
  • Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Interagency Consortium
  • Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics (MRLC) Consortium Documentation Notebook serves as the chief source of information for the MRLC Consortium and participating agencies
  • Federal Geographic Data Committee
  • Vegetation Subcommittee
  • FGDC Draft Vegetation Standard
  • Application of Gap Analysis to Aquatic Biodiversity Conservation
  • Hydroecology and Fish Biology - Gap Analysis
  • U.S. Army, Ft. Irwin NTC Mojave Desert Tortoise Project
  • The Ecosystem Approach: Healthy Ecosystems and Sustainable Economies A Report of the Interagency Ecosystem Management Task Force, June 1995
  • Volume 1
  • Volume 2
  • Volume 3
  • Biodiversity in the Seas: Conservation and Sustainable Use Through International Cooperation

    • by David R. Downes and A. Charlotte de Fontaubert, Center for International Environmental Law
  • Identification of Important Habitats in Coastal New Hampshire
  • Biological Resources Division - USGS
  • National Park Service Natural Resource Fact Sheet - GIS in the National Park Service
  • Dynamic Spatial Ecological Modeling Demonstration
  • Land Cover Classification
  • Biodiversity and Landscape Planning
  • NPS Inventory and Monitoring Vegetation Mapping Program
  • TNC - USGS/BRD PLOTS database, prepared for the NPS Vegetation Mapping Program
  • Herp Hot Links
  • Tjärnö Marine Biological Laboratory's (TMBL) Natural Science Links

    • Australian Ecosystems

  • Environment Australia Biodiversity Group
  • Australia's Endangered Species Protection Act 1992, including a list of species, ecosystems, and threatening processes

    • Hawaiian Ecosystems

  • Hawaii Biological Survey Home Page

    • Californian Ecosystems

  • CERES: California Environmental Resources Evaluation System
  • California Academy of Sciences Botany Department, Catalog of Botanical Type Specimens

    • Floridian Ecosystems

    Japanese Ecosystems

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