Flashcards: Biodiversity databases

Wikispecies is a wiki-based online project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.

ZipcodeZoo is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all living species and infraspecies known to science.

eMonocot is a collaborative global, online, biodiversity information resource provided by a number of botanical organisations to create a database on Monocotyledons.

bioSearch is a web application developed to manage marine biodiversity data from Indian waters.

HerpMapper is a cooperative citizen science project designed to gather and share information about reptile and amphibian (herp) observations across the planet.

iDigBio, Integrated Digitized Biocollections, is the National Resource funded by the National Science Foundation for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC).

The project uses a supertree approach to generate a single phylogenetic tree (served at ) from a comprehensive taxonomy and a curated set of published phylogenetic estimates.

The Catalogue of Life, started in June 2001 by Species 2000 and Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS), is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth.

The Cook Islands Biodiversity website is a database with a collection of information on the plants and animals, native and non-native, found in the Cook Islands.

iNaturalist is a citizen science project and online social network of naturalists, citizen scientists, and biologists built on the concept of mapping and sharing observations of biodiversity across the globe.

Observado.org is a non-profit website which collects sightings in nature.

eBird is an online database of bird observations providing scientists, researchers and amateur naturalists with real-time data about bird distribution and abundance.