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[Our category hierarchy for the Resources pages, adapted from the CERES thesaurus and other sources, is still under development, and will be evolving. There is a brief discussion of the classification issues that we are investigating here. See also our discussion of standards.]

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Biodiversity

biological systematics biological nomenclature | taxonomy

ecosystem and populations infectious disease

organisms taxonomy | animals | bacteria | fungi | plants | protists | metabacteria (archaea)

Environmental Science

human environment agriculture | demographics | environmental management | government | hazards | human impact | infrastructure | resource management | science

natural environment atmosphere | biosphere | hydrosphere | land | lithosphere | natural phenomenon

natural resources energy resources | fishery resources | forest resources | genetic resources | mineral resources | resource management | soils | water resources | wildlife resources

Informatics

online resource development open source software | web development

geographical information systems Geographic Information Systems (no subtopic available)

information organization databases | information architecture | knowledge mapping |

information presentation data presentation | user interface design

social/institutional aspects academia | economics | government | industry | legal

metadata controlled vocabularies | metadata standards

standards development metadata standards | protocols | standards organizations | standards processes

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Toxicology
Environmental Analysis

Field Biology

By Resource Type [ by topic | by task ]

Archives
Bibliographies
Curricula
Datasets
Digital Libraries
Directories

Geographic Information Systems
Multimedia
Publications & Proceedings
Software & Tools
Standards

News

XML Developments
The Biosphere Project's XML page describes the standard and lists important recent developments in XML

New Test Bed tools
Please try them out!

New Biodiversity Resource (BIOSIS)
BIOSIS and Zoological Record maintain a gateway to online Biodiversity resources

Top 50 New Links
From the European Environmental Information and Observation NETwork (EIONET)

Biodiversity/Wildlife Reports and Articles from SciCentral.com

Environmental News from Moreover.com