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the Index to Organism Names
The Index to Organism Names project uses name
data from the resources of BIOSIS and other collaborating
organizations.
Conferences
Meetings & workshops for today's global biologist.
Hispaniola Marine Biota Information System The main objective of this project is to obtain the first inventory of Hispaniola marine biota species as a contribution (on scientific bases) to the conservation of the coastal and marine resources of the Island.
How many species are there? estimates of global species diversity have varied from 2 million to 100 million species, with a best estimate of somewhere near 10 million, and only 1.4 million have actually been named, World Resources Institute (WRI) article