SELECTED WEB SITES  

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Quantitative priority-areas analysis for biodiversity

• Hotspots (see Conservation International)
• Endemic Bird Areas (see publications by BirdLife International)
• Gap analysis in the US (see GAP at the University of Idaho) .

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Institutions & groups

• Atlas Florae Europaeae (AFE) .
• British Trust for Ornithology (BTO)
• DIVERSITAS (IUBS/SCOPE/UNESCO)
• DMAP distribution mapping
• English Nature
• Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN)
• European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) .
• European Topic Centre on Nature Conservation (ETCNC)
• European Working Group on Research and Biodiversity (EWGRB)
• Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI)
• Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Biodiversity Network (NBN)
• New Zealand bird diversity .
• Protea Atlas Project .
• Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
• The World Conservation Union (IUCN)
• USGS Biological Resources Division (USGS-BRD) .
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC)
• World Resources Institute (WRI)

 

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Biodiversity lists

• Central European Environmental Data Request Facility (CEDAR) .
• Global Environmental Information Locator Service (GELOS) .
• Internet Biodiversity Service (IBS) .
• Naturenet .
• The Virtual Library of Biodiversity and Ecology (CCBN-VLBE) .
• The WWW Virtual Library - Cartography (George Mason University) .

 

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