Allows searching in multiple languages by both common and scientific name. It is produced by an international consortium of institutions led by the WorldFish Center. It includes environment, distribution, morphology, family, order, and class for economically important species, as well as photographs and maps. It is updated continually.
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Multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (63%), social sciences (33%), and economics (4%).
The database offers the accurate and reliable, geographically based, population distribution model.
The Lyell Collection, created to mark the Geological Society of London's 200th anniversary in 2007, represents one of the largest integrated collections of online Earth science literature available. Bringing together key journals, Special Publications and Society book series on a single electronic platform, the Lyell Collection is a unique resource for researcher and student alike.
The United Nations Environment Programme and World Conservation Monitoring Centre combined their interests for this site has information on biodiversity worldwide, including publications and a species database.
Well organized, very interactive, and full of information for all, theEPA site offers news, local information, teacher resources, multimedia(videos, photos, audios), resources, and even a trivia quiz, allaccessible from the homepage.
Since the Scout Report last visited the Digital Map Collection at the University of California, there have been many worthy additions to this cartographic cornucopia.