61. Conservation Commons Aug 6, 2010 UNEPWCMC has selected 380 of the most important books and reports from this collection, and has worked with the biodiversity Heritage http://www.conservationcommons.net/

window.name=false; Conservation Commons About Contact us Home Page Principles of the Conservation Commons: Open Access Promotes free and open access to data, information and knowledge for conservation purposes. Mutual Benefit Welcomes and encourages participants both to use resources and to contribute data, information and knowledge. Rights and Responsibilities Search Our Archives: Conservation Commons About the Conservation Commons Signatories of the Commons Web Links Friends of the Commons About the Friends of the Commons Steering Committee Join the Friends Francais Définir Conservation Commons Los Partenaires Liens Web Espanol ¿Quiénes Somos? Acerca de los Socios Enlaces Web SHOW / HIDE NAVIGATION TAB ... Digital access to UNEP-WCMC publications and reports Oct Posted by Asghar In Conservation Commons Publications Read More View Comments ... Promoting the sharing of information on protected areas Oct Posted by Asghar In Conservation Commons Data sets The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has joined forces with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to create protectedplanet.net

62. Biodiversity - Conservation International A tree frog peers over a woodrotting fungus in the Tambopata River region of Peru. http://www.conservation.org/learn/biodiversity/Pages/overview.aspx

63. About IDRC: International Development Research Centre Sustainable use of biodiversity http://www.idrc.ca/institution/

français Español idrc.ca HOME About IDRC Topic Explorer About IDRC IDRC at a glance ... Contact us People Chief Editor Rodrigo Bonilla ID: Added: Modified: Refreshed: Features Funding opportunities Advice and assistance for developing-country researchers seeking IDRC 's financial support. IDRC 's 2010 Corporate DVD Discover IDRC and its publications: full-text e-books, annual report, research results, and information on how to apply for funding. Order your free copy today. IDRC Ideas. Innovation. Impact. is the theme of this year's annual report. Read the full text online. About IDRC The International Development Research Centre ( IDRC ) is a Crown corporation created by the Parliament of Canada in 1970 to help developing countries use science and technology to find practical, long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental problems they face. Our support is directed toward creating a local research community whose work will build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. IDRC at a glance The essentials on one page. Working with us Funding for developing-country researchers, career opportunities, donor partnering, access to logos, and grant administration.

64. Biodiversity Project Oct 21, 2010 biodiversity Project is a nonprofit environmental communications organization that works to further public awareness and understanding on http://www.biodiversityproject.org/

Home About Us Our Philosophy History ... Contact Us What's New at Biodiversity Project Biodiversity Project conducts media review of Mississippi River The Mississippi River Collaborative has engaged Biodiversity Project to conduct a media review of the past 24 months. The goal of this media review research is to assess the quantity and quality of news media that is focused on agricultural pollution issues in the Mississippi River watershed. Biodiversity Project welcomes new board members We are pleased to welcome Kari Lydersen and Rey Phillips to Biodiversity Project's board of directors. Great Lakes Forever photo contest winners Photos of Lake Michigan surfers and a Lake Erie egret win the sixth annual Great Lakes Forever photo contest. Creative communications to inspire environmental action Organizations and advocates work hard, every day, to solve the environmental problems facing our land and water resources. But no single person or organization can change the world on their own. They need an informed and energized public to get things done.

65. Biodiversity In The Great Lakes Region General Resources biodiversity The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation The Coastal Centre, through education, research and community stewardship, are undertaking efforts http://www.great-lakes.net/envt/flora-fauna/biodivers.html

Air and Land Air Quality Coastal Management Ecosystem Management Habitat ... Wetlands Water BeachCast Conservation Levels and Hydrology Quality ... Watersheds Flora and Fauna Biodiversity Endangered Species Forests Invasive Species ... Wildlife Pollution Air Toxics Areas of Concern Human Health Pollution Prevention ... Toxic Contamination References Environmental Justice Laws and Policy Sanctuaries and Reserves Research ... Weather and Climate Legislative Tracking Great Lakes Priorities Legislative News Lake Conditions Lake Erie Lake Huron Lake Michigan Lake Ontario ... Lake Superior Also: Lake St. Clair Biodiversity in the Great Lakes Region What's New General Resources Publications Related Resources What's New Canada's biodiversity under attack, federal-provincial report finds The Montreal Gazette (10/18) The most comprehensive report ever on the state of Canada's biodiversity calls for action to ''maintain functioning ecosystems" from B.C.'s forests to the Prairies grasslands to the St. Lawrence River. Search GLIN for more news items about General Resources Biodiversity The Lake Huron Centre for Coastal Conservation The Coastal Centre, through education, research and community stewardship, are undertaking efforts to help restore the biodiversity of the coast and minimize future losses.

66. Home: Harrison Institute Centre for biodiversity research and eco-tours - working in Asia and Arabia. http://www.harrison-institute.org/

‘eighty years of promoting biodiversity conservation through taxonomic research, scientific training and international networks’ Home Contact/ Information Collections ... Volunteering Home Dr Paul Bates, Director of the Institute (left), with colleagues from the Prince of Songkla University, Thailand. Kachin woolly bat (Kerivoula kachinensis) from Myanmar (Burma), one of thirteen new species of Recent mammal described by Institute staff. Latest news T ogther with our colleagues in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Thailand, we were delighted to receive support from the Darwin Initiative for our project Enhancing taxonomic capacity to underpin tropical biodiversity conservation (SE Asia) This project started in April, 2010 and will run until October, 2013. In September, 2010, Paul Bates and Beatrix Lanzinger visited Zambia. They held talks with colleagues in local universities, museums, and NGOs about developing capacity building programmes in the biodiversity sciences. The Harrison Institute is especially grateful to Rachael Murton and Sport Beattie of Game Rangers International for facilitating these meetings. Welcome to the Harrison Institute The Harrison Institute was founded in 1930 as a zoological museum, specialising in mammals and birds.

67. Biodiversity And Conservation: The Web Of Life Year of biodiversity and Conservation Meet the Scientist Explore Global Diversity Events and Programs Take Action! Teaching biodiversity http://www.fieldmuseum.org/biodiversity/

68. Biodiversity Informatics - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia biodiversity Informatics is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity information for improved management, presentation, discovery, exploration and analysis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity_information

Biodiversity informatics From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Redirected from Biodiversity information Jump to: navigation search Biodiversity Informatics is the application of informatics techniques to biodiversity information for improved management, presentation, discovery, exploration and analysis. It typically builds on a foundation of taxonomic biogeographic , or ecological information stored in digital form, which, with the application of modern computer techniques, can yield new ways to view and analyse existing information, as well as predictive models for information that does not yet exist (see niche modelling ). Biodiversity informatics is a relatively young discipline (the term was coined in or around 1992) but has hundreds of practitioners worldwide, including the numerous individuals involved with the design and construction of taxonomic databases . The term "Biodiversity Informatics" is generally used in the broad sense to apply to computerized handling of any biodiversity information; the somewhat broader term " bioinformatics " is often used synonymously with the computerized handling of data in the specialized area of molecular biology Contents Overview History of the discipline of Biodiversity Informatics History of the term "Biodiversity Informatics" Current Biodiversity Informatics issues ... edit Overview Biodiversity informatics has been defined as "the creation, integration, analysis, and understanding of information regarding biological diversity"

69. World Atlas Of Biodiversity Interactive maps of biodiversity and human impacts from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre. http://stort.unep-wcmc.org/imaps/gb2002/book/viewer.htm

70. Biodiversity File Format PDF/Adobe Acrobat Quick View http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/briefing/biodiversity/biodiversity.pdf

71. What Is Biodiversity? Since 1991 the California biodiversity Council has worked to improve coordination and cooperation between the various resource management and environmental protection http://biodiversity.ca.gov/Biodiversity/biodiv_definition.html

Skip to: Content Footer Accessibility Search: California This Site CA.GOV Home Welcome to the California Biodiversity Council What's New ... Ask a Question Popular Pages Council Members Upcoming Meetings What is Biodiversity? California's Bioregions California Biodiversity Council c/o CAL FIRE FRAP PO Box 944246 Sacramento, CA 94244 (916) 324-1180 fax lauren.mcnees@fire.ca.gov Right Column Home Resources What is Biodiversity? What is Biodiversity? Biological diversity, or the shorter "biodiversity," (bio-di-ver-si-ty) simply means the diversity, or variety, of plants and animals and other living things in a particular area or region. For instance, the species that inhabit Los Angeles are different from those in San Francisco, and desert plants and animals have different characteristics and needs than those in the mountains, even though some of the same species can be found in all of those areas. Biodiversity also means the number, or abundance of different species living within a particular region. Scientists sometimes refer to the biodiversity of an ecosystem, a natural area made up of a community of plants, animals, and other living things in a particular physical and chemical environment. In practice, "biodiversity" suggests sustaining the diversity of species in each ecosystem as we plan human activities that affect the use of the land and natural resources.

72. Biodiversity - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biodiversity

73. Biodiversity II: Understanding And Protecting Our Biological Resources National Academy of Sciences report (1996) addresses new strategies and techniques for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity. Full text online. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/4901.html

74. United Nations System-Wide EARTHWATCH > Biodiversity Tourism and biodiversity Mapping Tourism’s Global Footprint 2003 (PDF) UNEP, CI, 2003. The publication illustrates the overlap between tourism http://www.un.org/earthwatch/biodiversity/

Home Biodiversity Home News About Earthwatch UN Partners ... Agenda 21 Issues Select an Issue agriculture atmosphere biodiversity biotechnology consumption demography desertification development forests freshwater hazardous wastes health human settlements land resources mountains oceans poverty radioactive waste solid waste sustainable development toxic chemicals Regional Info Select a Region Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America Polar Regions West Asia Major Assessments Indicators Site index Search Earthwatch ... This site is maintained by UNEP/GRID-Geneva Last Update: We would appreciate your feedback Biodiversity Emerging Issues Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety Invasive Species Tiger Crisis Biodiversity Assessment Major Assessments - 2003 (PDF) UNEP, CI, 2003. The publication illustrates the overlap between tourism development (present and forecasted) and biodiversity hotspots highlighting tourism related threats and opportunities for biodiversity conservation and improved human welfare. United Nations List of Protected Areas - 2003 (PDF) Published by IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK and UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK. 2003. ISBN 2-8317-0746-3, 92-807-2362-6.

75. Biodiversity In Urban Ecosystems Links to sites about urban biodiversity. http://www.naturalsciences.be/bch-cbd/belgium/links/themes/urban.htm

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76. WWF - Biodiversity: The Rock On Which You Stand You are an integral part of nature; your fate is tightly linked with biodiversity, the huge variety of other animals and plants, the places they live and http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/biodiversity/

77. Scientific Facts On Biodiversity & Human Well-being This Digest is a faithful summary of the leading scientific consensus report produced in 2005 by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) 'Ecosystems and Human Wellbeing http://www.greenfacts.org/en/biodiversity/index.htm

Publications Blog About us Press Room ... Links Languages: Deutsch [de] English [en] Español [es] Français [fr] Nederlands [nl] Home » Biodiversity (MA) » Level 1 Source document: MA GreenFacts (2006) Scientific Facts on Biodiversity Information on our Three-Level Structure Level 1: Summary Level 2: ... Glossary Context - Biodiversity contributes to many aspects of human well-being, for instance by providing raw materials and contributing to health. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment shows that human actions often lead to irreversible losses in terms of diversity of life on Earth and these losses have been more rapid in the past 50 years than ever before in human history. What factors are responsible for this rapid loss? What would need to be done to significantly slow this trend? Level 1 Questions Top Level 1: Summary ... Next Question 1. Biodiversity: What is it, where is it, and why is it important? Estimates of the proportion of named species Biodiversity reflects the number, variety and variability of living organisms. It includes

78. Biodiversity The study found that conservation action does work in the first analysis of its kind, researchers found that the global biodiversity decline would have http://news.mongabay.com/news-index/biodiversity1.html

About Contact Mongabay on Facebook Mongabay on Twitter ... Subscribe biodiversity blog News articles on biodiversity Weekly Newsletter Other topics News articles on biodiversity Mongabay.com news articles on biodiversity in blog format. Updated regularly. Agreement reached at biodiversity summit (10/29/2010) Delegates meeting in Nagoya, Japan, at the 10th Conference of the Parties (COP10) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) today agreed to take new steps to halt the global decline of biodiversity. Harrison Ford chides US for spurning international biodiversity treaty (10/28/2010) In a speech in Nagoya, Japan at the UN's Convention for Biological Diversity (CBD) actor and conservationist, Harrison Ford, called on delegates to put aside differences and adopt a strong treaty to protect biodiversity. As a US citizen, he also urged his country to become a full signatory of the CBD. "The time has come for the United States to step up to the plate. The problem is so big and the time is so short, we have no choice. We have to act and we have to act now," said Ford. Undergrads in the Amazon: American students witness beauty and crisis in Yasuni National Park, Ecuador

79. Www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org Partnership between Nantucket conservation organizations, government agencies and individuals interested in documenting the biodiversity of the islands and adjacent waters. http://www.nantucketbiodiversityinitiative.org

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80. United System-Wide EARTHWATCH > Biodiversity > Assessment biodiversity . biodiversity Assessment . The Global biodiversity Assessment completed by 1500 scientists under the auspices of UNEP in 1995 updated what we know, or http://www.un.org/earthwatch/biodiversity/assessment.html

Home Biodiversity Assessment Home News About Earthwatch UN Partners ... Agenda 21 Issues Select an Issue agriculture atmosphere biodiversity biotechnology consumption demography desertification development forests freshwater hazardous wastes health human settlements land resources mountains oceans poverty radioactive waste solid waste sustainable development toxic chemicals Regional Info Select a Region Africa Asia Europe Latin America North America Polar Regions West Asia World Major Assessments Indicators Site index Search Earthwatch ... This site is maintained by UNEP/GRID-Geneva Last Update: We would appreciate your feedback Biodiversity Biodiversity Assessment The Global Biodiversity Assessment completed by 1500 scientists under the auspices of UNEP in 1995 updated what we know, or more correctly how little we know, about global biological diversity at the ecosystem, species and genetic levels ( Heywood, 1995 ). The assessment was uncertain of the total number of species on Earth within an order of magnitude. Of its working figure of 13 million species, only 13% have been scientifically described. Ecological community diversity is also poorly known, as is its relationship to biological diversity, and genetic diversity has been studied for only a small number of species. The effects of human activities on biodiversity have increased so greatly that the rate of species extinctions is rising to hundreds or thousands of times the background level. These losses are driven by increasing demands on species and their habitats, and by the failure of current market systems to value biodiversity adequately. The Assessment calls for urgent action to reverse these trends (

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