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"Inspiring discovery through free access to biodiversity knowledge. The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community."

"How many mammal species live in the forest? It sounds like a simple question, but the actual distributions of shy, small or rare mammals are often murky, confounding conservationists seeking to protect them. Yet a paper published online on Tuesday in the journal Molecular Ecology explores a new way to track biodiversity: by capturing flies that feed on carcasses. The flies' stomachs offer DNA diaries of their recent meals, giving scientists clues to which animals live and die in the forest. "The animals are there, but you just don't see them," said Fabian Leendertz, a wildlife epidemiologist at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin and an author of the paper. "Those flies will find them and will tell us what is there"

"Putting biodiversity on the map"

The Macaulay Library is the world's largest and oldest scientific archive of biodiversity audio and video recordings. Learn more

" Moving Beyond Belly Button Biodiversity…we will study the species living with you on your body but also in the other biomes of YOUR household. If you want to know who is hiding in your refrigerator or mating in the pillow where you rest your head, we can help you. When you look beside you in bed, you notice no more than one animal (alternative lifestyles and cats notwithstanding). For nearly all of our history, our beds and lives were shared by multitudes. Live in a mud-walled hut in the Amazon, and bats will sleep above you, spiders beside you, the dog and cat not far away, and then there are the insects beating themselves stupid against the dwindling animal-fat flame. In addition, your gut would be filled with intestinal worms, your body (and nearly everything else) covered in multitudes of unnamed microbes, and your lungs occupied by a fungus uniquely your own."

We are a nonprofit publisher and advocacy organization. Our mission is to accelerate progress in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication. Everything that we publish is open-access - freely available online for anyone to use. Sharing research encourages progress, from protecting the biodiversity of our planet to finding more effective treatments for diseases such as cancer.

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists and nature enthusiasts from around the world. On more than 10,000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).

More than 6,000 different species living on the sea-floor have been identified so far and more than half of these are unique to the icy continent. A combination of long-term monitoring studies, newly gathered information on the marine life distribution and global ocean warming models, enable the scientists to identify Antarctica's marine "biodiversity hotspots". Researcher Griffiths describes how krill populations (the shrimp-like invertebrates eaten by penguins, whales and seals) are reducing as a result of a decrease in sea-ice cover. A much smaller crustacean (copepods) is dominating the area once occupied by them. This shifts the balance of the food web to favour predators, like jellyfish, that are not eaten by penguins and other Southern Ocean higher predators. Sea-ice reduction is also affecting penguins that breed on the ice.

ScienceDaily (Mar. 29, 2011) - Darwin's notion that only the fittest survive has been called into question by new research published in the journal Nature. A collaboration between the Universities of Exeter and Bath in the UK, with a group from San Diego State University in the US, challenges our current understanding of evolution by showing that biodiversity may evolve where previously thought impossible.

The current release allows you to explore globally the geographic distributions for any terrestrial vertebrate species.

Ways to increase crop production includes enhanced utilization and administration of agricultural biodiversity assets, (for example, seeds, fertilization, gainful fauna, and so forth), to attain higher yields while advancing the practicality of the cultivating frameworks.

There are various ways to increase agricultural production and these include conserving soil and water. Developing healthy soils, increasing the quality of water, managing nutrients in soil, biodiversity in the ecosystem are few ways to increase agricultural productivity.

This demo allows you to map and produce list of species anywhere for ~ 25,000 species (including all described birds, mammals and amphibians - for info check the 'Dashboard').

"Die Amöbe Dictyostelium ist ein beliebter und - so dachte man - gut erforschter Labororganismus. Doch wie sich herausstellt, haben die wildlebenden Vertreter ihren Verwandten in der Nährlösung einiges voraus. Manche von ihnen betreiben eine primitive Form der Landwirtschaft. Sie tragen jene Bakterien, die ihnen als Nahrung dienen, stets mit sich. Doch das ist noch nicht alles: Wie US-Forscher nun herausgefunden haben, beherbergen sie außerdem Bakterien, die schmarotzende Artgenossen von ihren Vorräten fernhalten. "

ScienceDaily (June 28, 2010) - Why are tropical forests so biologically rich? Smithsonian researchers have new evidence that the answer to one of life's great unsolved mysteries lies underground, according to a study published in the journal, Nature.

Catalogue of Life website: gateway to our database of the world's known species of animals, plants, fungi and micro-organisms