BIODIVERSITY databases

• Biological and Biodiversity Web Server
• Species Analyst
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Species 2000
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System
• European Register of Marine Species
• Mexico: CONABIO Comision Nacional para el Concocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad
• Costa Rica: INBio Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• ABIF Australian Biodiversity Information Facility
• Clearing House Mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity
• DIVERSITAS of UNESCO and ICSU (International Council for Science)
• ENHSIN European Natural History Specimen Information Network
• URMO at ETI, The Netherlands

Computer

• Darwin Core metadata standard Z39.50 search protocol to locate and return records, transforming them into XML; cooperative dev't effort among US institutions
• SPICE (Species2000 Interoperability Coordination Environment) for Species2000 (www.sp2000.org)
• ALICE software, for taxon interface with complete synonymy (as in printed taxonomic monographs)
• BioCISE Project (Biological Collections Information Service for Europe)

Plants

• IOPI Global Plant Check List
• ILDIS LegumeWeb
• International Plant Names Index
• FloraBase

Other taxa

• FishBase, a finished database

Other computer databases

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) (see Science 288:1575 [Malakff D, 2000])
• WORLDMAP, plots biodiversity distribution patterns, endemicity, etc.