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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.
Guidance for CITES Scientific Authorities. Checklist to assist in making non-detriment findings for Appendix II exports. Based on two workshops convened by IUCN to develop some pragmatic assistance for Scientific Authorities, this publication presents the background to the development of the non-detriment finding checklist and explains how the checklist itself is designed to work, in the hope that Scientific Authority staff will take and develop the parts of the approach that they find useful. (online pdf document)
Guide to Best Practices for Georeferencing This publication is one of the outputs from the BioGeomancer project and discusses Best Practices for Georeferencing biological species (specimen and observational) data. The publication presents examples of how to georeference a wide range of different location types, and provides information and examples on how to determine the extent and maximum uncertainty distance for locations based on the information provided - downloadable book
organizations.
For basic answers to who's who in the Animal Kingdom.
