Web links
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Biodiversity data portals
- AlgaeBase
- Biodiversity Collections Index (BCI)
- Biological Collection Access Services (BioCase)
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
- Encyclopedia of Life (EoL)
- Euro+Med PlantBase
- Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA) Database
- Freshwaterecology.info
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Biodiversity standards
Biodiversity research networks and multi-partner projects
- ALARM (Assessing Large scale Risks for biodiversity with tested Methods)
- All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories and Monitoring (ATBI+M)
- AlterNet
- Barcode of Life
- BioNet
- Botanic Gardens Conservation International
- Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
- Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities (CETAF)
- DIVERSITAS
- EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy
- Ephemeroptera Recording Scheme for the UK
- European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
- European Network for Biodiversity Information (ENBI)
- European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS)
- Fauna Europae
- Intergovernmental science-policy Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
- International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER)
- International Mechanisms of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB)
- ISIS Network
- LifeWatch
- Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (MarBef)
- Nature and Biodiversity News and Views
- Nederlandse knooppunt van de Global Biodiversity Information Facility (NLBIF)
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System (IOBIS)
- Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.® (OGC)
- Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure (PESI)
- Society for the Management of Electronic Biodiversity Data (SMEBD)
- Species 2000 Europa
- Synthesis of Systematic Resources (SYNTHESYS)
Universities and research institutions
Museums and Herbariums
- European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
- European Union of Aquarium Curators
- Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM, Germany)
- Spanish National Museum of Natural History, Spain (MNCN, CSIC, )
- Hungarian Natural History Museum, Hungary (NHMUS)
- Museum of Natural History, Berlin Germany
- French National Museum of Natural History, France (MNHN)
- The Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science, Poland (MIIZ)
- National Natural History Museum, The Netherlands
- National Herbarium of the Netherlands, The Netherlands (NHN)
- Natural History Museum (NHM, UK)
- Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria (NhM)
- Swedish Museum of Natural History, Sweden (NRM)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Spanish National Research Council, Spain (RJB, CISC)
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE, UK)
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (UK)
- Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium)
- National Museum for Natural History in Denmark, Denmark (SNM)
- Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ZIN, Russia)
- Zoological Museum of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (ZMA)
- Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark (ZMUC)
Government (International)
Government (National)
- Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH, UK)
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH Edinburgh, UK)
- State Research Institute for Nature Research Center, Lithuania (EKOI)
- Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR, Greece)
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium
- Malta Environment and Planning Authority (MEPA)
- The Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)