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Biodiversity database resources
Find below a list of websites with biological and/or environmental data that can be useful in biodiversity research.
- GBIF: The Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- OBIS: Ocean Biogeographic Information System
- WoRMS: World Register of Marine Species
- GISD: Global Invasive Species Database - ISSG
- The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- SCAR-MarBIN: SCAR-Marine Biodiversity Information Network
- SeaLifeBase
- FishBase
- Avibase: The World Bird Database
- BirdLife Data Zone
- Amphibiaweb: Amphibia databsae
- ARCTOS: Multi-Institution, Multi-Collection Museum Database
- ANTWEB: Ants Database
- WikiSpecies: Free Species Directory
- MaNIS Portals: The Mammal Networked Information System
- Reefbase: A Global Information System for Coral Reefs
- EMODNET Biology:Biology Portal of European Marine Observations and Data Network
- EUNIS: European Nature Information System Database
- EU-NOMEN: Pan-European Species Directories Infrastructure
- Marine Species Identification Portal
- BoL: Barcode of Life
- EoL: Encyclopedia of Life
- NCBI GenBank®: Public NIH genetic sequence database
- BHL: Biodiversity Heritage Library consortium of natural history and botanical libraries
- Paleobiology Database
- Aquamaps: Online Computer-generated Maps for large Scale Species Distributions
- MPA Global: A Database of the World's Marine Protected Areas
- WDPA: World Database of Protected Areas
- WDPA-Marine: World Database on Marine Protected Areas
- CITES Species Database
- FEOW: Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
- GOOS: Global Ocean Observing System
- WorldClim: Global Climate Data
- CliMond: Global climatologies for bioclimatic modelling
- Bio-Oracle: Ocean Rasters for Analysis of Climate Environment
- APDRC: Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center
- NODC: NOAA Oceanographic Data Center
- NSIDC: National Snow & Ice Data Center
- OceanColor: NASA Oceancolor Portal
- APRDC: In-situ oceanographic or atmospheric data from a Dapper OpenDap server
- Glovis: USGS Earth Resource Observation and Science Center Data Portal
- CCCMA: Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
- ARGOS: Worldwide tracking and environmental monitoring by satellite
- ZOOTAXA: A mega-journal for zoological taxonomists in the world
- VLIZ Flanders Marine Institute Database Page
