Biodiversity Databases

[Janet Dombrowski]

NSF news release: Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on
Every  Desktop (update on the Global Biodiversity Information Facility
(GBIF). [http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/press/00/pr0067.htm]

The Sept. 29 issue of Science is a special issue on  Bioinformatics for
Biodiversity.
See the Web supplement (free access)
[http://www.sciencemag.org/feature/data/biodiversity2000.shl] which
includes synopses of GBIF and other databases.


Janet Dombrowski
National Geographic Society
jdombrow at ngs.org