Offene-Naturführer möchte Naturführer, Bestimmungsschlüssel, sowie dazugehörige Lehr- und Lernmaterialien für Schulen, sekundäre Bildung, Studium und den Naturschutz frei verfügbar machen. Nutzer sollen die Materialien kopieren und verändern dürfen (z. B. um Teilschlüssel/Arbeitsblätter für ihre Region, einen Naturpark oder speziell den Schulgarten anpassen zu können) und sie online oder offline – z. B. auf CD gebrannt oder auf dem Mobiltelefon abgespeichert – nutzen können. Dies wird durch eine offene Lizenz ("Creative Commons") erreicht, die (vergleichbar mit "Open Source Software" wie Linux oder Open Office) eine offene Weiterentwicklung erlaubt. Dieses Portal ist gegenwärtig eine Demo-Seite, die vom EU-Projekt "Key to Nature", dem Bundesamt für Naturschutz - Fachgebiet "Botanischer Artenschutz" (mit Beiträgen aus "FloraWeb"), von der Gesellschaft für Biologische Systematik (GfBS), dem Deutschen Jugendbund für Naturbeobachtung (DJN) und der Naturkundlichen Gesellschaft (Österreich) betrieben wird. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Discover Life provides free on-line tools to identify species, share ways to teach and study nature's wonders, report findings, build maps, process images, and contribute to and learn from an encyclopedia of life that now contains 278,487 species. [Information of the supplier]
ZipcodeZoo.com aspires to be a useful Field Guide to plants and animals of the world. Often, to be useful, a field guide must have a sense of where you are and what might be found there. Our natural world is rapidly losing its diversity and abundance. To slow this loss, and to better appreciate the natural world, we must begin with local nature. ZipcodeZoo works to bring the natural world to armchair, amateur, and professional naturalists. Our focus is Applied Biogeography: understanding plants and animals in their place, perhaps even your backyard. We want to build an online field guide suited for the amateur naturalist. Here are highlights of what we have done so far: a) We've added information on 2,646,557 species from around the world. Zipcode Zoo is not just for Americans (and more than half our visitors don't live in the land of zipcodes.) b) We've been gathering field observations -- 127,715,643 so far -- and mapping them with the help of Google, to help you see exactly where a plant or animal has been reported. c) Finding just the right species in all of this can be like finding a needle in a haystack. A Proximity Lister and a Region Lister will help you find plants or animals in a geographic area of interest. PlantFinder offers 19 criteria to narrow your selection of plants. PlantFinder's database currently includes 1,555,827 attributes for 209,411 of the 1,105,429 plants on this site. BirdFinder uses location and 102,204 attributes for 4,753 birds. d) We've added popup definitions for 236,201 terms. For many terms such as "abdominal", the popup definition pronounces the term. Short definitions such as that for "entire" simply popup on mouse over, then go away. Other definitions, such as that for "abdominal" open in small windows. e) We've built localized lists of Invasives Near You and Threatened Near You to list local Invasives and threatened species. f) We've made a start at sorting through identifications with Key, a tool that helps you step through kingdom, phylum, class, order, and family to help you decide what species you have at hand. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
