Links

Global organisations and initiatives

• Global Biodiversity Information Facility, GBIF: www.gbif.org
• Global Data Toolkit (GDT): http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/gitan
• GEO Group on Earth Observations www.earthobservations.org/about_geo.shtml
• World Conservation Monitoring Centre: www.unep-wcmc.org
• World Data Centre for Biodiversity and Ecology (WDCBE). http://wdc.nbii.gov
• US National Biological Information Infrastructure: www.nbii.gov
• International Long Term Ecological Research, ILTER: www.ilternet.edu 
• DIVERSITAS: www.diversitas-international.org
• Convention on Biological Diversity: www.cbd.int
• Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network www.earthobservations.org/geobon.shtml

European Initiatives

• Lifewatch: www.lifewatch.eu
• Long Term Ecological Research, LTER Europe: www.lter-europe.ceh.ac.uk/index.htm
• ENCA: Network of Heads of European Nature Conservation Agencies:  http://encanet.eu
• EHF: European Habitats Forum: http://www.eurosite.org/en-UK/content/european-habitats-forum 
• European Forest Data centre web site (http://efdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/) 
• Forest web site (http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ and in particular http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/forest-pattern

National data portals

Projects

• GEO projects via FP6 and FP7: http://ec.europa.eu/research/environment/geo/article_meetings_gepw.htm
• EuMon: http://eumon.ckff.si
• Carex: www.carex-eu.org
• Alternet: www.alter-net.info 
• BioPress: www.creaf.uab.es/biopress/index2.htm
• Biostrat: www.biostrat.org
• AEGOS: www.brgm.fr/brgm/aegos/what.htm
• EnviroGRIDS: www.envirogrids.net
• Geoland: www.gmes-geoland.info
• EUSeaMap (interactive mapping portal for seabed habitats) : http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-5040
• http://bio.emodnet.eu/portal/#