Alpandino emerged from ALPECOLe, an e-learning course in alpine ecology jointly developed by a consortium of Swiss institutions as part of the Swiss Virtual Campus program. Alpandino is the Spanish translation of the globally applicable alpine plant ecology part of ALPECOLe. The original ALPECOLe course also offers lessons that are rather specific to the Alps or to the temperate zone and thus have not been considered for translation in the context of Alpandino (e.g. specific accounts of vegetation, animals, glaciers and history of treeline in central Europe). Alpandino contains 10 lecture units, 1-8 designed by Christian Körner and 9 and 10 by Jürg Stöcklin, both Institute of Botany, University of Basel. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Andean Botanical Information System (ABIS) presents information from floristic and systematic investigations of the flowering plants (phanerogams) of Andean South America. Topics include selected geographic regions and groups of Andean plants, flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic inventories from a variety of habitats in northern Peru, bibliographic resources, and searchable databases. ... [Information of the supplier]
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]
Diese Website, ein Angebot des dänischen Lundbeck Instituts, gibt einen kompakten Überblick über biologische und medizinische Aspekte des menschlichen Denkorgans, dem Gehirn. Der "Brain Explorer" bietet neben allgemeinen Textinformationen und Abbildungen auch einige spezielle Videobeiträge zu den wichtigen Botenstoffen Noradrenalin und Serotonin. ... [Redaktion vifabio]
The Green Wave is a multi-year global campaign that enables children and youth to make a difference – one school, one tree, one step at a time. The Green Wave brings together children and youth from around the world to raise awareness about biodiversity, and the need to reduce its loss. The Green Wave contributes to the Plant for the Planet Billion Tree Campaign. In 2010 the International Day for Biodiversity falls on Saturday. To allow as many schools as possible to take part we’re inviting participants to plant their tree on 21 May or 22 May. Stories and pictures uploaded to the website will go live on the map at 20:10 on 22 May 2010! ... [Information of the supplier]
CASA is a multi-national, web-based project with the goal of increasing the quality and quantity of research on the reproductive biology and natural history of birds in the Americas. CASA aims to encourage the study of nesting biology by disseminating information, identifying gaps in our knowledge, and bringing together collaborators from across the Americas who work with, study, or simply just love birds. CASA began with a focus on birds nesting on mainland Ecuador (Natural History of Ecuador's Mainland Avifauna), but is slowly expanding its scope to all of the Americas by unifying similar projects from other countries. ... [Information of the supplier]
This private web site is dedicated to the Common Swift (Apus apus). The ability of the Common Swift to mate and sleep in the air shows its amazing adaptation to flight. Only for breeding it has to land. The web site supplies a lot of basic information about biology, phenology and protection of this bird species. In APUSlife, the virtual magazine of the Common Swift, a lot of up-to-date scientific articles about the Common Swift, as well as important older texts are available. Additionally this page links to webcams in nesting boxes of Swifts. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) is an international agreement between governments to which States (countries) adhere voluntarily. Its aim is to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. CITES was drafted as a result of a resolution adopted in 1963 at a meeting of members of IUCN (The World Conservation Union). The text of the Convention was finally agreed at a meeting of representatives of 80 countries in Washington DC., United States of America, on 3 March 1973, and on 1 July 1975 CITES entered in force. The species covered by CITES are listed in three Appendices, according to the degree of protection they need. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Our mission is to conduct scientific research and environmental education about conservation and natural resource management in the Galapagos archipelago and its surrounding Marine Reserve. Scientific research and monitoring projects are conducted at the CDRS in conjunction and cooperation with our chief partner, the Galapagos National Park Service (GNPS), which functions as the principal government authority in charge of conservation and natural resource issues in the Galapagos. ... [Information of the supplier]
