FishBase, a global information system with all you ever wanted to know about fishes. FishBase is a relational database with information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more. FishBase on the web contains practically all fish species known to science. ... [Information of the supplier]
InfoNatura provides conservation status, taxonomic, and distribution information for over 6,000 bird, mammal, and amphibian species in Latin America and the Caribbean. InfoNatura represents a "snapshot" of dynamic data that are continually being refined in NatureServe's central databases. We update InfoNatura one to two times each year to reflect new data from refined geographic surveys, the latest taxonomic treatments, and any new conservation status assessments. Future versions of InfoNatura will include data for additional taxonomic groups such as reptiles. ... [Information of the supplier]
"Flora brasiliensis" was published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, and Ignatz Urban, with the participation of 65 specialists from various countries. It contains taxonomic treatments of 22.767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosperms, held in 15 volumes, divided in 40 parts, with a total of 10.367 pages. The projects' aim is to develop an on-line information system about Brazil's flora, using Martius' Flora brasiliensis with high resolution digitized images of the plates as a base. ... [Information of the supplier]
John Kyrk, Biologe von der Harvard Universität, stellt auf dieser Internetseite eine Fülle von animierten, teilweise interaktiven Clips zur Zellbiologie zur Verfügung. Das in vier Sprachen vorliegende Angebot bezieht sich auf Alberts Lehrbuch "Molecular Biology of the Cell" und erstreckt sich von Themen der Zellmorphologie über Genetik und Evolution bis hin zur Darstellung von Photosynthesevorgängen. Zu den Animationen kann auch eine zugehörige CD auf dieser Seite bestellt werden. ... [Redaktion vifabio]
DG Fisheries And Maritime Affairs is the Directorate-General responsible for the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and for developing a future maritime policy for the EU at the European Commission. The CFP covers all fishing activities, the farming of living aquatic resources, and the processing and marketing of fisheries products, on the legal basis of Article 33 (ex 39) of the Treaty establishing the European Community. Since the first decisions adopted in 1970, the CFP has been through many changes, and its current form centres on four main areas: the conservation and management of marine resources, fisheries relations and agreements with non-member countries and international organisations, structural measures, and the common market organisation for fishery and aquaculture products. The major challenge facing the CFP today is to strike a sustainable balance between available marine resources and their exploitation. ... [Information of the supplier]
Our goal: to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases. Proteins are biology's workhorses -- its "nanomachines." Before proteins can carry out these important functions, they assemble themselves, or "fold." The process of protein folding, while critical and fundamental to virtually all of biology, in many ways remains a mystery. Moreover, when proteins do not fold correctly (i.e. "misfold"), there can be serious consequences, including many well known diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Mad Cow (BSE), CJD, ALS, Huntington's, Parkinson's disease, and many Cancers and cancer-related syndromes. You can help by simply running a piece of software. Folding@home is a distributed computing project -- people from throughout the world download and run software to band together to make one of the largest supercomputers in the world. Every computer takes the project closer to our goals. Folding@home uses novel computational methods coupled to distributed computing, to simulate problems millions of times more challenging than previously achieved. We have had several successes. You can read about them on our Science page, on our Awards page, or go directly to our Results page. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The project of the Botany Digital Library, aims to construct and make available free on the web, the resources available in the Library of the Botany Department of the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra. These include antique books, manuscript books and botany displays made up of handwritten correspondence, photographs, drawings etc. The aim is to start the interaction between the various resources in the various databases: the Digital Library and the On-line Herbarium. The Digital Library of the Department of Botany has its genesis in the project of the Botany Digital Library, a project to digitalize and promote. An application was made to the Programa Operacional da Sociedade do Conhecimento, promoted by the Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior. It was accepted and this guaranteed the financial resources to achieve it. ... [Information of the supplier]
Within the limits of Portuguese activities in the construction of a European protection area system “Natura 2000” the naturally occurring habitats were recorded by the Associação Lusitana de Fitossociologia (ALFA); descriptions were formulated according to the rules of the Instituto de Conservação da Natureza (ICN), which can be downloaded in pdf format. The habitats were divided into the following nine groups: coastal habitats and salt tolerant vegetation, coastal dunes and inland dunes, freshwater habitats, heaths and shrubs of the temperate zones, maquis shrubs, natural and semi-natural herbaceous formations, highland and lowland moors, and swamps, rocky environments, and forests. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
The AArk is a joint effort of three principal partners: the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA), the IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG), and the IUCN/SSC Amphibian Specialist Group (ASG). We were formed to address the ex situ components of the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan (ACAP). Our vision is the world’s amphibians safe in nature, and our mission is ensuring the global survival of amphibians, focusing on those that cannot currently be safeguarded in nature. ... [Information of the supplier]
