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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.
Wildlife Crossings Toolkit The Toolkit is a searchable database of case histories of mitigation measures, and articles on decreasing wildlife mortality and increasing animals' ability to cross highways
Wisconsin Herbaria Plant Specimen Database Wisconsin Botanical Information System (WBIS) is an online database of Wisconsin's vascular plant information and collected specimens
Wood Collection Smithsonian database of the US National Herbarium
Wood Database image database, wood specimens & identification system of Japanese woods - Forestry and Forest Product Research Institute
World Conifer Database provided by the American Conifer Society as an educational tool to further understanding about conifers, cultivars, and nomenclature - searchable database of conifer species & cultivars
World Database on Protected Areas The World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) provides the most comprehensive dataset on protected areas worldwide and is managed by UNEP-WCMC in partnership with the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) and the World Database on Protected Areas Consortium. The WDPA is a fully relational database containing information on the status, environment and management of individual protected areas
World Grass Species Database online resource. This database contains morphological descriptions of some 9,500 species coded in DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy) format using approximately 1,000 characters. The descriptions are mostly derived from published accounts with minimal herbarium checking. (Kew)
World Grass Species Synonym Database online resource. The Nomenclature database currently holds over 56,000 names. The database can: provide lists of names for any given genus or geographical region; find the accepted name and its synonyms for any given name.