Biodiversity Databases

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AgDB - (dead link)
Agriculture Network Information Center
"AgDB is a database directory of quality agriculture-related databases, datasets, and information systems. It describes and links to more than 1,000 information resources."

Agricultural Culture Collection of China (ACCC) - (dead link)
Informational page

AlgaeBase
"...a biodiversity database of seaweed information..."
By M.D. Guiry and E. Nic Dhonnch

American Society of International Law - (dead link)

AmphibiaWeb - (dead link)
An Information System for Amphibian Conservation Biology
"AmphibiaWeb is an online resource for people concerned with the declining amphibian problem. By providing easy access to data, we hope to accelerate broad-scale understanding of the causes of amphibian declines...AmphibiaWeb currently has 137 species accounts from species around the world. The accounts contain species descriptions, life history information, conservation status, and literature references. Species names are currently linked to 296 amphibian photos of 133 species. We have range maps for 320 species. Our reference list contains 543 literature references."
Dr. David Wake, Curator of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkley

Arkansas Biodiversity: The Vascular Flora
 "This project is based on information taken from An Atlas and Annotated List of the Vascular Plants of Arkansas, a product of Dr. Edwin B. Smith and the University of Arkansas Herbarium. Published in 1988 (2nd edition), and currently out of print, this volume provides a great deal of specific information on the vascular plants of Arkansas. A subset of that is provided here as background for the diversity/distribution mapping system...An experimental informatics system under development as a collaborative enterprise among faculty and students of the University of Arkansas Herbarium, the Biota of North America Program and the Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group"

BIFLORA Database of Plants
"...is a scientific database with information about the highly endangered plant species of the island of Hainan, P.R. China, first. As a part of the Indo-Burma region this island is considered to be one of the "biodiversity hotspots" of the world...BIFLORATM consists for the most part of the contributions of local scientists in China. Their work documents and helps to gain valuable knowledge about the fragile environment."

Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas
- University of California, Davis - Information Center for the Environment

Bishop Museum Native Hawaiian Terrestrial & Freshwater Mollusk Checklist Database

Blocks WWW Server - (dead link) "The blocks for the Blocks Database - (dead link) are made automatically by looking for the most highly conserved regions in groups of proteins documented in the Prosite Database. The Prosite pattern for a protein group is not used in any way to make the Blocks Database...A service for biological sequence analysis at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, USA."

Botanical Checklist of North America
The digital checklist resides in the SMASCH Sybase database at U. C. Berkeley

CABI Bioscience
"...integrates four former international biological institutes, the International Institute of Biological Control (IIBC), the International Institute of Entomology (IIE), the International Institute of Parasitology (IIP) and the International Mycological Institute (IMI)."

Databases

  • Bibliography of Systematic Mycology - (dead link)
    "...a survey of the literature encompassing the biodiversity, classification, distribution, evolution, identification, nomenclature, phylogeny, systematics and taxonomy of fungi (including those groups traditionally treated as fungi but now better classified in other kingdoms)."
  • The Dictionary of the Fungi - (dead link)
    "...contains the current consensus on the fungal taxonomic hierarchy to the rank of genus."
  • Family Names - (dead link)
    "...which includes authors, place of publication and type genus. This database will eventually be expanded to include all supra-familial ranks."
  • IndexFungorum; aka funindex - (dead link)
    "...contains over 345,000 names of fungi (including yeast, lichens, chromistan fungi, protozoan fungi and fossil forms) at species level and below."

California Flora Database - (dead link)
"This database contains geographic and ecological distribution information for 8363 California vascular plant taxa, including links to other online sources for California flora data."
Part of the UC Berkeley Digital Library Project

California Wildlife Exposure Factor and Toxicity Database (Cal/Ecotox)
"...is a compilation of exposure factors (i.e., ecological and physiological data) and toxicity data for a number of California mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles. The database has been created by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, in collaboration with the University of California at Davis, to provide an information resource for risk assessors conducting ecological risk assessments in California."

China Catalogue of Cultures - (dead link)
China Committee of Culture Collection for Microorganisms (CCCCM)
Search for Bacteria, Actinomyces, Yeast, Fungi, or Virus

CBS Databases
Includes the following: Filamentous fungi database - (dead link), containing about 28,000 strains; Yeasts database - (dead link), with nearly 6,000 strains total; Bacteria database - (dead link), 8,000 strains; Aphyllophorales database - (dead link), a taxonomical and nomenclatural database of more than 29,000 names; and Fusarium database - (dead link), with over 1,500 names; and the Phabagen databases - (dead link)
Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures

Conservation Databases - (dead link)
"a large and varied collection of databases concerning nature conservation."
World Conservation Monitoring Centre

Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)

  • Census of Marine Life (CoML)
    "...a major international research program to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine organisms throughout the world's oceans."

DUCKDATA - (dead link) A Bibliographic Data Base of North American Waterfowl (Anatidae) and their Wetland Habitats.

Endangered Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts) - (dead link)
Harvard University Herbaria

Electronic Plant Gene Register Index - (dead link)
An electronic publication for articles describing the isolation and DNA sequence determination of plant genes


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Entomology Index of Internet Resources
 A Directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet
By John VanDyk, Iowa State University

Environment Canada - The Green Lane

Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI)
The Netherlands

  • World Biodiversity Database (WBD)
    "...is a continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million) and to make this important biological information worldwide accessible. Access to this online information system is free of charge for noncommercial use: scientific and educational purposes."
  • World Taxonomist Database (WTD)
    Online taxonomists directory service.
  • UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisims - (dead link)
    "The register is basically only a list of species names but it is tried to add at least some additional information, including author names, vernacular names, information on geographical and bathymetrical distribution and NODC numerical codes. Synonyms are added but only if they are still in use or were used in recent times."

FishBase
A Global Information System on Fishes
"FishBase is a relational database with information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more. FishBase on the web contains practically all fish species known to science...FishBase was developed at the International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management (ICLARM) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and many other partners, and with support from the European Commission (EC)."

Flowering Plant Gateway
- Texas A&M Bioinformatics Working Group

Global Seabird Conservation Programme - (dead link)
Sections include: Conservation ; Pollution ; News ; Longlining ; Products.
  • Threatened Seabird - Longline Fisheries Interaction Database - (dead link)
    "This database aims to highlight the interactions of threatened seabirds and longline fisheries. It provides distribution maps for seabirds threatened by longline fishing overlaid with maps of longline fishing effort in the southern oceans."

InfoNatura
"...provides conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for 5,500 bird and mammal species in Latin America and the Caribbean"
- A product of NaturServe

INVADERS Database System
"...is a comprehensive database of exotic plant names and weed distribution records for five states in the northwestern United States. The spatial and temporal spread of weeds can be displayed using the historic distribution records in INVADERS. The INVADERS web site contains actual examples of how land management and weed regulatory agencies are using these data to improve their weed management programs. Noxious weed listings are provided for all US states and six southern tier Canadian provinces."
By Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana

National Plant Data Center - (dead link)
"...focuses resources on the acquisition, development, integration, quality control, dissemination and access of plant information."
Includes access to the PLANTS Photogallery
- USDA-NRCS

NatureServe
"...a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. NatureServe provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too. NatureServe is a product of the Association for Biodiversity Information in collaboration with the Natural Heritage Network."

  • InfoNatura
    "...provides conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for 5,500 bird and mammal species in Latin America and the Caribbean"
    - A product of NaturServe

New Mexico Species List / Species Accounts - (dead link) BISON-M - Biota Information System of New Mexico

New Mexico Species List--Mammals - (dead link)
By Jon Klingel, New Mexico Dept. of Game & Fish

New Zealand Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF)

  • The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
    "...commissioned this review of past and current research and applications within New Zealand to help sustain 'Agricultural Biodiversity', the species and key ecological processes interacting in broadly agricultural landscapes. The overall goals are to evaluate New Zealand's biodiversity obligations to the CBD, to identify needs and gaps..."

Search in the Biology Web Servers - (dead link)
"This server searches in all the pages referenced by the Pasteur Institute Web server - (dead link) in its biology "pointers" pages, "Molecular Biology on the Web" - (dead link).
In French or English

Tennessee Amphibian Monitoring Program - (dead link)
"...a volunteer-based, multi-agency effort to assess the current status of amphibians (frogs, toads, and salamanders) across our state, with the goal of learning where they live and how they are doing. The TAMP is co-sponsored by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation's Division of Natural Heritage (TDEC-DNH)."
See also: Tennessee's Frogs and Toads - (dead link) ; North American Amphibian Monitoring Program (NAAMP) - (dead link) ; The Frogs and Toads of Texas

Trade Environment Database
"TED is a collection of trade and environment cases...serves as an inventory of cases in trade and environment and provides a basis for use by researchers, policymakers and others in this field.

U.S. Wood Collection - (dead link)
U.S. National Herbarium

University of Minnesota Department of Entomology

  • Insect Collection
    Sections include: Collection Info ; People ; Projects ; Systematic Databases ; Visits & Tours ; Links.

World Biodiversity Database (WBD)
"...is a continuously growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million) and to make this important biological information worldwide accessible. Access to this online information system is free of charge for noncommercial use: scientific and educational purposes."

World Conservation Monitoring Centre Conservation Databases - (dead link)
"Data, maps and statistics on the forests, coasts, species, protected areas, national biodiversity and WCMC bibliographic database."

  • Tree Conservation Database - (dead link) "...holds information on threatened species and others of conservation concern. This database is used to generate The World List of Threatened Trees, and the information is available here in interactive format."

WWF [World Wildlife Fund] Canada

  • The Nature Audit
    Report No. 1 - 2003.
    "...its first biennial report on Canadaís efforts to conserve biodiversity. With a focus on improving conservation strategies in Canada, The Nature Audit is our first attempt at setting conservation priorities for the 21st century."

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