DNL-online is a bibliographical database on nature conservation compiled by the German National Agency for Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN). Currently, about 100.000 citations are available, with publication years starting 1980. The data is based on holdings of the BfN's library as well as its documentation center, and contains all forms of publications; the geographical scope of most titles is Germany / Central Europe. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
Included in the IUCN Red List is the comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of the world's 6,000+ known species of frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians. Here you will find key findings of the assessment, as well as individual species accounts including IUCN Red List threat category, range map, ecology information, and other data for every amphibian species. The first comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of all amphibians was completed as the Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) in 2004. Since then the data has been updated in 2006 and again in 2008 to include new information and newly described or revalidated species. The assessment of amphibians is ongoing and relies on the expertise of hundreds of herpetologists from all around the world. Use the search tool at the top of the page to search for amphibians in the IUCN Red List database by name, taxonomy, country, region, habitat type, threat type, or IUCN Red List status. ... [Information of the supplier]
NaturSportInfo is an information system with standardised short abstracts of the literature for the topic area “Effects of Sport and Leisure Time Activities on Flora and Fauna”. (Short abstracts are not, however, available for all titles.). In addition links, definitions, and background information is made available. [Editorial staff vifabio]
The WISIA database, compiled by the Federal Office for Nature Conservation, includes some 10 000 species that are categorised as requiring ‘special’ or ‘strict’ protection under German nature conservation legislation. The protection status and applicable German or EU legislation is provided for each entry. [Information of the supplier]
This GM contamination register is the first of its kind in the world. Genetically modified crops were first commercially grown on a wide scale in 1996. But, there has always been concern about their effects on both health and the environment. A specific concern has been that once released, it would not be possible to contain or control these organisms yet there is no global monitoring system. Because of this failure of national and international agencies, GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace International launched this joint initiative in 2005 to record all incidents of contamination arising from the intentional or accidental release of genetically modified (GM) organisms (which are also known as genetically engineered (GE) organisms). It also includes illegal plantings of GM crops and the negative agricultural side-effects that have been reported. Only those incidents which have been publically documented are recorded here. There may be others that are, as yet, undetected. This site is intended to be a resource for individuals, public interest groups and governments. The register can be searched to see where, when and how contamination has taken place. It includes information about, and links to, sources and the GeneWatch UK and Greenpeace web sites as well as other useful sites. ... [Information of the supplier]
The countrywide Natura 2000 area database offers search possibilities in the Natura 2000 areas in Germany and provides information about their protected resources. Precise area information can be accessed separately for bird protection, and flora and fauna habitat areas (FFH areas) by area number, area size, the occurrence of habitat types and Appendix II species or bird species (Appendix I and migratory-bird species) as well as an area description. The area selection is made through the choice of one or more Federal States. By clicking on the area number you obtain the appropriate area profile. Inside the area profile you obtain a habitat profile by clicking on a habitat code. Input of the whole or part of an area name gives you a further selection possibility on the start page of the bird protection or FFH areas. All statements are taken from the German standard data sheet submitted to the EU. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
The purpose and function of the DGGTB (German Society for the History and Theory of Biology) is to promote the communication of the history and theory of all biological subjects by means of scientific events such as colloquia, symposia, working groups, and to foster scientific exchange between its members and younger developing scientists, to build up relationships with the corresponding foreign and domestic associations, especially in the neighbouring European states, and to build up and effectively represent publicly, common aims. Since, contrary to other countries in the European Community, and especially in contrast to the USA, there are no institutes or professorial chairs for the history and theory of biology in Germany the DGGTB advocates that the history and theory of biology be established as an independent field of work in biological research and teaching in all German universities that have a faculty of biology. ... [Information of the supplier, translated]
The Tephritid Workers Database (TWD) deals with fruit flies and was re-established from the Insect Pest Control Section of the Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture to facilitate collection and sharing of data between researchers and other interested parties worldwide. It includes more than 1200 researchers and 5000 publications and be maintained by the participants. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The long term (ten year) objectives for data management within the Australian National Data Service (ANDS) are to: a) Transform collections of Australian research data into a cohesive network of research repositories, b) assist Australian research data managers to become experts in creating, managing and sharing research data under well formed and maintained data management policies, c) increase the amount of research data that is routinely deposited into stable, accessible and sustainable data management and preservation environments, d) Provide opportunities for people to develop expertise in data management across research communities and institutions, e) enable researchers to find and access any relevant data in the Australian 'data commons', f) enable Australian researchers to discover, exchange, reuse and combine data from other researchers and other domains within their own research in new ways and g) facilitate the sharing of Australian data to support international and nationally distributed multidisciplinary research teams. ... [Information of the supplier]
ViBRANT recognised the need for a bibliography of life, i.e. a freely accessible bibliography of every taxonomic paper ever published. None of the currently available aggregators were satisfactory, so we have chosen to extend the Plazi bibliographic tool, RefBank. There are two primary reasons for this choice, first the original developer, Guido Sautter, is a partner in ViBRANT and second, RefBank contains a parsing tool that will turn Rod Page's "cryptic text strings" into structured references that can be easily transformed into any of the other conventional forms (see the Data Format Report). The bulk of RefBank's growth to date has come from ViBRANT contributed references, with 80,000 references being accumulated in the first six months of operation and another 85,000 references in the second six months. Work continues within ViBRANT to extract bibliographies from published works and parse them to generate more references. This work is to ensure that RefBank is seeded with sufficient references at launch so as to engage users. There was a significant development for RefBank in Autumn 2012 when it was the subject of a presentation and demonstration at TDWG 2013. Since when we have seen the addition of community contributed references. A more formal launch of RefBank, probably in conjunction with related ViBRANT developed tools, is planned for Summer/Autumn 2013. (http://vbrant.eu/content/communal-literature) ... [Miscellaneous as indicated]