Tools
| EstimateS- Software for calculating biodiversity indices : http://viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu/EstimateS |
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| Fragstats- Software for calculating landscape indices : http://www.umass.edu/landeco/research/fragstats/fragstats.html |
| Diva GIS : http://www.diva-gis.org/ |
| Biomapper is a free GIS-toolkit to model habitat suitability : http://www2.unil.ch/biomapper/ |
| The Conservation Planning System (C-Plan) : http://members.ozemail.com.au/~cplan/ |
| FloraMap - A software tool for predicting the distribution of plants and other organims in the wild : http://www.floramap-ciat.org/ |
| GARP predicts wild species distributions : http://www.lifemapper.org/desktopgarp// |
| Cartographic Links for Botanists : http://www.helsinki.fi/~rlampine/cartogr.html |
| Software for Biological Collection Management : http://www.bgbm.fu-berlin.de/TDWG/acc/software.htm |
| Managing genetic resources with GIS : http://www.ipgri.cgiar.org/regions/americas/programmes/gisforpgr.htm |
| On line diversity mapping : http://biodi.sdsc.edu/ |
| Learn more about GIS : http://www.colorado.edu/geography/gcraft/notes/notes.html |
| Do you find it difficult to get the right colors for your map? : http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/c/a/cab38/ColorBrewerBeta.html |
| Society for Conservation GIS : http://www.scgis.org/ |
| The open source Java GIS toolkit : http://www.geotools.org/2.0.x |
| BioGeomancer Tool : http://www.biogeomancer.org |
| BioSciences GIS Facilities > Web Resources : http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/facilities/gis/index.php?Page=338 |
| Free Download Manager : http://www.freedownloadmanager.org/ |
| Alice Software for creating and managing biodiversity databases : http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/ |
Database
| Plant Database for India : http://www.plantsindia.org/ |
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| Global Database on fish species : http://www.fishbase.org/search.cfm |
| BirdLife International Red Data Book : http://www.rdb.or.id |
| Mammal Species of the World : http://nmnhgoph.si.edu/msw/ |
| Animal Info India : http://www.animalinfo.org/country/india.htm |
| IUCN Red list of Threatened Species : http://www.redlist.org/ |
| NCL Centre for Biodiversity Informatics : http://www.ncbi.org.in/ |
| Western Ghats Biodiversity Information Systems : http://wgbis.ces.iisc.ernet.in/biodiversity/ |
| WWF Global 200 Ecoregions : http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/ecoregions/global200/pages/home.htm |
| Census of India : http://www.censusindia.net/ |
| Australian National University Bioinformatics : http://life.anu.edu.au/ |
| Biodiversity Action Network (BIONET) : http://www.bionet-us.org/ |
| Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWW Server : http://biodiversity.uno.edu/ |
| Biodiversity and Ecological Research : http://biodiversity.org/ |
| Biodiversity Conservation Information System (BCIS) : http://biodiversity.org/ |
| Biodiversity Information Networks BIN21 : http://www.csu.edu.au/ |
| Biodiversity Support Program : http://bsponline.org/ |
| Biological Resources Research Centre (BRRC) : http://www.brrc.unr.edu/ |
| Biology Abstracts and Zoological Records(BIOSIS) : http://www.york.biosis.org/ |
| BIOSIS; Publisher of Biological Abstracts & Zoological Record : http://www.biosis.org/ |
| Centre for Conservation Biology Network(CCBN) : http://conbio.rice.edu/ |
| Cleaning-House-Mechanism Under CBD : http://www.biodiv.org/ |
| Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) : http://www.uno.org/ |
| Conservation International : http://www.conservation.org/ |
| Convention on Biological Diversity : http://www.biodiv.org/ |
| Coral Health and Monitoring Program (NOAA) : http://www.coral.noaa.gov/ |
| Eco Directory (Eco Dir) : http://www.rec.hu/ |
| Endemic Species : http://endemics.htm/ |
| EnviroLink's Endangered Species Act On-Line Resources Guide : http://www.envirolink.org/ |
| FAOSTAT Forestry Statistic Database at FAO : http://apps.fao.org/ |
| Fish base : http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/ |
| Food and Agriculture Organisation FAO : http://www.fao.org/ |
| GEF Global Environment Facility : http://www.worldbank.org/ |
| Global Change Data and Information System (GCDIS) : http://www.usgcrp.gov/ |
| Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) : http://lcluc.geep.virginia.edu/ |
| Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS) : http://fao.org/ |
| GRID the Global Resource Information Database, UNEP : http://www.unep.org/ |
| Integrated Conservation Networking System (ICONS) : http://www.iucn.org/ |
| IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals : http://www.wcmc.org.uk/ |
| IUCN-The World Conservation Union : http://www.iucn.org/ |
| Israel Biodiversity Information System : http://www.biogis.huji.ac.il/ |
| List of Bacterial Names with Standing in Nomenclature : http://www.sv.cict.fr/bacterio/ |
| Man and Biosphere Species Database : http://ice.ucdavis.edu/ |
| Man and the Biosphere : http://www.unesco.org/ |
| MUSE Fish Database : http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/ |
| Natural History Museums and Collections (World wide) : http://cas.calacademy.org/ |
| Overview to Natural Heritage Programs : http://www.heritage.tnc.org/ |
| Species 2000 : http://www.sp2000.org/ |
| System- Wide Information Network for Genetic Resources : http://singer.cgiar.org/ |
| Taxonomic Database Working Group : http://plants.usda.gov/ |
| The 2000 IUCN list of Threatened Species : http://www.biospec.org/www.redlist.org/ |
| The Biodiversity Forum (BioForum) : http://www.biospec.org/www.worldcrop.com/ |
| The Conventions on Migratory Species : http://www.wcmc.org.uk/ |
| The Interagency Taxonomic Information System (IT IS) : http://wwwitis.usda.gov/ |
| The Interagency Society of Hymenopterists : http://iris.biosci.ohiostate.edu/ |
| The International Willy Henning Society : http://www.vims.edu/ |
| The Internet Biodiversity Services : http://ibs.uel.ac.uk/ |
| The Missouri Botanical Garden : http://www.mobot.org/ |
| The National Heritage Network : http://www.abi.org/ |
| The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands(Ramsar) : http://www.ramsar.org/ |
| The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity (VLEB) : http://conbio.rice.edu/ |
| Mapping Global Forest Resources : http://www.whrc.org/ |
| The World Bank (WB) : http://www.worldbank.org/ |
| The World Species List (WSL) : http://www.envirolink.org/ |
| TREE BASE: A Database of Phylogenetic Knowledge : http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/ |
| United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) : http://www.unep.org/ |
| United Nations List of National Parks and Projected Areas : http://www.wcmc.org.uk/ |
| United State Global Change Research Program : http://www.usgcrp.gov/ |
| Virus Database On-Line : http://life.anu.edu.au/ |
| WCMC Protected Areas Virtual Library (PAVL) : http://www.wcmc.org.uk/ |
| Weeds of the World Project : http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/ |
| World Bank Monitoring Environmental Progress Database : http://www.ciesin.org/ |
| World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC) : http://www.wcmc.org.uk/ |
| World Data Centre on Micro Organisms : http://wdcm.nig.ac.jp/ |
| World Information and Early Warning System on Plants Genetic Resources (WIEWS) : http://apps.fao.org/ |
| World Map: Measuring the Variety of Nature : http://www.nhm.ac.uk/ |
| World Pollen Database : http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/ |
| World Weeds Database : http://ifs.plants.ox.ac.uk/ |
| World Wide Fund for Nature : http://www.panda.org/ |
| World Wildlife Fund (WWF) : http://www.wwf.org/ |
| World Wildlife Society (WC) : http://www.us.net/wildlife |
| Bioprospecting and Molecular Taxonomy Programme -BPMT : http://www.biospec.org/bpmt |
| Biodiversity Information System India : http://www.bisindia.org/ |
| Plant Species Information System India : http://www.bisindia.org/phytosis |
| Forest Resource Information System India : http://www.bisindia.org/fris |