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• - Overview and definitions.
  
• - Project to provide indexing and links for all known species as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.
  
• - A non-profit organization with the goal of recording a complete inventory of all species on Earth within 25 years.
  
• - Supports international conservation activities. Documents on methodology, working with NGOs, governments, communities; news, publications, photo gallery.
  
• - Overview of some theoretical basics of biodiversity.
  
• - Full text online of UNEP-WCMC series of project results.
  
• - What is biodiversity, what threatens it, why is it important, and what are ecologists doing to better understand it? From Ecological Society of America. [PDF file]
  
• - National Academy of Sciences report (1996) addresses new strategies and techniques for quantifying, understanding, and protecting biodiversity. Full text online.
  
• - Comprehensive information on 25 of the world's biologically richest and most threatened ecosystems.
  
• - Biology, ecology, habitat, and status of rare, threatened and endangered species of mammals and information on their native countries: biodiversity, ecosystems, population, and land use.
  
• - The Canadian Museum of Nature's quarterly magazine. Covered Canadian and international biodiversity news in science, politics, education, community and individual initiatives between 1991 and 1999.
  
• - Personally maintained website with information and links about several aspects of biodiversity: biological, ecological, physical, chemical, social (e.g., population growth), economical and juridical. Some links in Dutch language or of particular relevance
  
• - Different definitions used by resource managers and ecologists.
  
• - Searchable database of citations on natural populations of animals, plants, and microbes.
  
• - Introductory documents on understanding and conserving biodiversity.
  
• - The Global Diversity Foundation documents, monitors and promotes agricultural, biological and cultural diversity around the world, particularly through training and research.
  
• - Describes the need for an International Biodiversity Observation Year, events proposed, benefits anticipated.
  
• - Research papers (PDF files) and project summaries related to economic and policy aspects of biodiversity protection. Topics include ecosystem valuation, endangered species laws, and habitat conservation.
  
• - A partially annotated directory of Internet resources on biodiversity.
  
• - A branch library of the California Academy of Sciences specializing in information on biodiversity. Bibiographies, links to news and educator resources.
  
• - Biological diversity: theory, patterns, ecological zones, species distributions, conservation issues, and legislation, with an emphasis on Canada. Bilingual: english/français.
  
• - Online resource: major themes include evolution of biodiversity, systems for classifying and defining biodiversity, ecological patterns and theories, an assessment of contemporary patterns and trends, treaties and government legislation.
  
• - International collaborative project with the goal of providing accurate scientific information and predictive models of the status of biodiversity and sustainability of the use of the Earth's biotic resources, and to build a world-wide capacity for the
  
• - Links to sites about urban biodiversity.
  
• - Presents answers to common questions about biodiversity.
  
• - Links to articles on biodiversity and species extinction.
  
• - Interactive maps of biodiversity and human impacts from the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
  
• - Outlines what biodiversity is, and the three levels at which it is usually defined: genetic, species and ecosystem.
  
• - Explores the economic dimensions of the global biodiversity agenda as reflected in the work of IUCN and the various biodiversity conventions, notably the Convention on Biological Diversity.
  
• - Provides an overview of the extent to which industry in the developed world relies on the biodiversity of the developing world. (FTP site).
  
• - Access to WWW sites that provide information on genetic diversity, species diversity, ecological diversity, and geopolitical perspectives. From the National Biological Information Infrastructure.
  
• - Background papers from the World Resources Institute on social and political dimensions of environmental policy-making.
  
• - Overview and definitions.
  
• - Introductory notes.