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- ALGAEBase - 122,848 species and infraspecific names are in the database, 6,547 images, 41,128 bibliographic items, 144,379 distributional records
- Baltic Sea Now - Nearly realtime information of the Baltic Sea level, wave height, ice conditions and algae blooms in summer time; some parameters are also forecasted
- COPEPOD - Global plankton database of zooplankton data and phytoplankton data sampled from around the world.
- Index to Organism Names (ION) - ION contains all the animal names data found within the Thomson Reuters life science literature databases
- European Register of Marine Species - A register of marine species in Europe, linked with a bibliography of identification guides, register of taxonomic experts and locations of collections of reference specimens, and an Information Pack on European marine biodiversity.
- FAO All Information Collections - Statistics, records, fact sheets, maps.
- FishBASE - 30900 Species, 269600 Common names, 46500 Pictures, 42200 References, 1600 Collaborators, 24 million Hits/month; virtually all species known to science.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Data Portal - Access millions of data records shared via the GBIF network. Find data for a species or other group of organisms. Find data on the species recorded in a particular country. Find data from a data provider, dataset or data network.
- Global Land Cover Facility Data and Products - Includes satellite imager, products derived from imagery, and the World Database on Protected Areas
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System - Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world
- LarvalBASE - 2,228 species, 4,229 pictures, 4,513 references, 72 Collaborators, 120,000 Hits/month. A comprehensive information system on fish larvae that are relevant in the field of fisheries research and finfish aquaculture.
- Marine Species Database for Eastern Africa (MASDEA) - Biogeographic/taxonomic database of marine species in the Western Indian Ocean/East Africa
- Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) - 19.3 million records of 106000 species from 660 databases
- Species 2000/ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2008 Annual Checklist - The eighth edition of the Annual Checklist, contains 1,105,589 species...probably just more than half of the world's known species
- World Wildlife Federation (WWF) Data Download - WildFinder Database; Terrestrial Ecoregions Base Global Dataset; Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World; HydroSHEDS (global hydrological database); Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD); Global 200 Ecoregions
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Short title: Biosphere Websites
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Expertise level: beginner
Author: Murray.Brown
Approval status: approved
Approved by: Murray.Brown
Last change: 2011-11-15
Subsection of: Marine Data Gateway
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