I bumped into a new website yesterday, which seems to be the new-born brother of an old friend. Although it is not directly zoo-related, it's definitely in the biodiversity business.
FishBase is one of my favourite sites. I use it when I teach my students about fishes and their biology and I am proud to have made a very small contribution to the project by sending them a few photos.
The new site is even more ambitious. To quote from the home page:-
The long-term goal of this project is to create and maintain a FishBase-like information system for all aquatic living organisms (marine and freshwater), ca. 300,000 spp. Of these, marine organisms (about 200,000 spp) are the target of the current project phase. It will not provide yet another authority list of species, but rather, for each species included, make available the biological information necessary to conduct biodiversity and ecosystem studies, taking advantage of lists of species already available on paper and electronically, and using the scientific names as ‘hook’ to organize biodiversity information.
The main portal is at Search SeaLifeBase
Alan
FishBase is one of my favourite sites. I use it when I teach my students about fishes and their biology and I am proud to have made a very small contribution to the project by sending them a few photos.
The new site is even more ambitious. To quote from the home page:-
The long-term goal of this project is to create and maintain a FishBase-like information system for all aquatic living organisms (marine and freshwater), ca. 300,000 spp. Of these, marine organisms (about 200,000 spp) are the target of the current project phase. It will not provide yet another authority list of species, but rather, for each species included, make available the biological information necessary to conduct biodiversity and ecosystem studies, taking advantage of lists of species already available on paper and electronically, and using the scientific names as ‘hook’ to organize biodiversity information.
The main portal is at Search SeaLifeBase
Alan