B-VegAna (Vegetation edition and Analysis) is an integrated software package oriented towards the storage, management and analysis of ecological data. The package consists of several programs which can be run independently. It includes ten applications (Fagus, Quercus, Ginkgo, Yucca, Zamia, Taxus, Webherb, Wisteria WMS, Welwitschia and Araucaria). The first seven applications offer the opportunity for any user to manage biodiversity data in many interesting ways with an unified interface and data format, the last three apps provide webservices. After almost nine years of development they have become solid tools with a clearly defined added value. Examples for available applications are: (1) Ginkgo - multivariate analysis tool. Oriented mainly towards ordination and classification of ecological data, stressing methods based on symmetric matrices. (2) Quercus - a relevé table editor. It handles relevé data allowing the user to perform phytosociological works. (3) Fagus - floristic records editor. It can handle data coming from field surveys, bibliographic sources or collections. (4) Yucca - a cartographic plotting tool, that enables the user to plot taxa or syntaxa distributions. Taxon, syntaxon or bibliographic thesauri can be edited within the programs. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The Biodiversity Information System for Europe (BISE) is a single entry point for data and information on biodiversity in the EU. Bringing together facts and figures on biodiversity and ecosystem services, it links to related policies, environmental data centres, assessments and research findings from various sources. It is being developed to strengthen the knowledge base and support decision-making on biodiversity. BISE is a partnership between the European Commission (DG Environment, Joint Research Centre and Eurostat) and the European Environment Agency. It incorporates the network of the European Clearing House Mechanism within the context of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). ... [Information of the supplier]
Auf diesen Seiten dreht sich alles um Hummeln [lat. Bombus], den fleissigeren Schwestern der Bienen. Denn leider sind Hummeln zum Teil stark gefährdet und werden von ihrem größten Feind – dem Menschen – rücksichtslos verdrängt und vernichtet. Oft geschieht dies aus mangelndem Wissen oder unbegründeten Ängsten. Gegen beides will diese Homepage etwas beitragen und Ihnen zeigen, wie liebenswürdig und schützenswert unsere Hummeln sind. ... [Information des Anbieters]
Botanikus.de provides a database of 3,500+ plant photos (1,950 species, varieties, cultivars). On the search screen, you can insert german or botanical names. [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
There are approximately 440 species of Butterfly in Europe and North Africa. I have seen but a small part of them but hope eventually to come across most of them and perhaps include them in these pages, currently there are 270 species included. [Information of the supplier]
Genetic variation is a vital component of biodiversity, providing ecosystems, species, populations and individuals with the raw material to adapt and survive environmental change and enabling natural selection, as envisaged by Darwin 150 years ago, to operate. Genetic biodiversity has long been recognized by the Convention on Biological Diversity and the EU Biodiversity Strategy as one of the three essential elements of living diversity. Yet conserving genetic variation is poorly addressed in practice compared to the two other biodiversity components – species and ecosystems. In addition the link between science, policy and implementation needs a step-change if we are to help ‘future-proof’ essential components of our biodiversity against the anticipated global threats of the coming decades. There exists both a policy-based and capacity impediment to the optimal management of genetic biodiversity in the EU. ConGRESS aims to rectify the problem by delivering dissemination tools which policy makers and conservation managers can conveniently use to incorporate genetic biodiversity into their policy and management frameworks.ConGRESS will empower organizations to efficiently use genetics in conservation for the first time. ConGRESS aims to make genetic expertise, information and user-friendly tools available, beginning at the initial stages of a conservation program (study design and assessment), through to management decision-making and implementation and finally for policy development at a local and regional level. By ensuring that all stakeholders can understand, apply and evaluate genetic data in their conservation programs ConGRESS aims to finally fully include genetic biodiversity in EU conservation actions and improve best practice in the future. ... [Information of the supplier]
Interaktives Forum zur Erstellung von Bestimmungstabellen für Käfer, das allen Autoren die Möglichkeit gibt, ohne Kosten ihre Erkenntnisse der Allgemeinheit zur Verfügung zu stellen. Gegebenfalls wird auf andere Sites verwiesen, in denen Sachverhalte zur Biologie oder Verbreitung dargestellt sind. Die Familientabellen sind in erster Linie für Anfänger bestimmt und daher nicht streng nach systematischen oder phylogentischen Gesichtspunkten aufgebaut. Der fortgeschrittene Entomologe kann sich aus den alphabetischen oder systematischen Listen gleich die Familie oder Gattung heraussuchen, in der er bestimmen möchte. ... [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
This web site shows drawings of Crataegus by Knud Ib Christensen; they were reproduced from his "Revision of Crataegus Sect. Crataegus and Nothosect. Crataeguineae (Rosaceae-Maloideae) in the Old World" (1992, Systematic Botany Monographs, Volume 35). [Editorial staff vifabio]
Beside a general introduction there are certain suggestions about Torticid-species (e.g. stages, variation, biology, host plants, damages and distribution). An online key allows there determination. Interactions between several plants and host specific Torticids are summarized. A single section treats the female and male genitalia. Information about higher taxa (Metazoa, Bilateria, Hexapoda) are available. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
The aim of this private homepage is to give entomologists and interested amateurs an overview of the most important details of the ecology of some domestic butterfly species and, by means of numerous photos, to awaken interest in the beauty of threatened nature. In the download area the publications of the author can be downloaded as pdf files. The nucleus of the website is formed by portraits of various species. Here, profiles of the species can be selected, most of which contain pictures (picture galleries). Currently, 572 butterfly species from 21 central European families of the so-called Macrolepidoptera are available. In addition, 112 grasshopper species are accessible. Currently, the total number of pictures is 4553. ... [Information of the supplier, translated and modified]
