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Alpandino
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, ... [Information of the supplier]
Textbooks / Online-textbooks; Discipline based websites
http://alpandino.org/
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anakondas.de
Lutz Dirksen's website provides comprehensive information on Anacondas (South American snake genus Eunectes) to a German-language audience. [Editorial staff vifabio]
Discipline based websites
http://www.anakondas.de/
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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]
Discipline based websites
http://www.sacha.org/
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The Amazon Tree Diversity Network is an electronic network of 143 botanists, ecologists and taxonomists that share data and information on tree diversity in the pan-Amazon (Amazonia s.s. and the Guyana Shield). Our drive is to gain a better understanding of the processes that drive (patterns of) alfa- and beta-diversity in the region and, through this knowledge, contribute to better conservation strategies for the region. Currently we work with data from botanical 1-ha plots (and sometimes different ... [Information of the supplier]
Academic societies, professional associations, working groups; Discipline based websites
http://web.science.uu.nl/Amazon/ATDN/
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The Catalogue of New World Grasses (CNWG) is an on-going project led by agrostologists from five institutions to database, using TROPICOS, and link all nomenclature, types, synonymy, current taxonomy, and distribution for grasses occurring from Alaska and Greenland to Tierra del Fuego. This is presented in the context of a new suprageneric classification. The taxonomy accepted by CNWG is derived from contributions by collaborating specialists, or from consultation of literature and specimens by the ... [Information of the supplier]
Factual databases
http://www.tropicos.org/project/cnwg
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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 ... [Information of the supplier]
Discipline based websites
http://avesamericanas.lifedesks.org/
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The digital library of the Royal Botanic Garden (CSIC) was set up because of two factors: an extraordinary wealth of documents and active research. The Royal Botanic Garden, on account of its rich and lengthy history, has a magnificent collection of antequarian botanical books. Apart from the intrinsic value of this historic and scientific heritage, the collection is constantly consulted by researchers investigating the organization and distribution of organisms, or the relationship between scientific ... [Information of the supplier]
Access on historical literature
http://bibdigital.rjb.csic.es/
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This Directory of South American Dipterists was made by data sent by Internet, through personal interviews and by data retrieved from recently published papers. For submission or any updating of the present data, please fill in the web form and send to me by fax, e-mail or to my postal address. [Information of the supplier, modified]
Directories of institutions and organisations
http://zoo.bio.ufpr.br/diptera/south/
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The Rainforest Alliance launched the Eco-Index(R) in 2001 to provide the conservation community with a quickly and easily accessible vehicle to share project data and reports, lessons learned, and best practices in a succinct and consistent format. To best serve our audience, the entire site is available in English and Spanish, and profiles of projects based in Brazil are in Portuguese. Go to the Project Search page to find project information that interests you.
Each profile posted on the Eco-Index ... [Information of the supplier]
Non-governmental organisations
http://www.eco-index.org/
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eFloras.org
The eFloras-page is a gateway to several electronically available floras. As of February 2011, these are: Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal; Flora of Chile; Flora of China; Flora of Missouri; Flora of North America; Flora of Pakistan; Moss flora of China; Trees and shrubs of the Andes of Ecuador; Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Madagascar; and others. A search tool is available for searching plant names in all the floras simultaneously. [Editorial staff vifabio]
Discipline based portals and link collections
http://www.efloras.org/
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