Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment (BIOMON) Research Group

Tropical Forest Biodiversity unit

 

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Contents

Ants, by region or subfamily
 Ant researchers & labs
Termites
Biodiversity & conservation
Scientific Societies
Naturalist Associations
Databases 
Freewares in Ecology
Microscopy : digital imaging
Canopy
Communication in Science
Humor and curiosities in Science


 

Ants, by region or subfamily

Global ant collaboration: http://www.antmacroecology.org 

Global ant project: http://gap.entclub.org/index.html

Ant genera of the World (distribution maps): http://www.antmacroecology.org/ant_genera/index.html 

News : http://www.notesfromunderground.org

AntBase : Social Insects World Wide Web : SIWeb : research.amnh.org
Hymenoptera Name Server (via AntBase):
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/
AntWeb : tools for exploring the diversity and identification of ants : www.antweb.org
The tree of life : Ants http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Formicidae&contgroup=Vespoidea


Insect photography by Alex Wild : myrmecos.net
Steve Yanoviak's canopy ants : www.canopyants.com 
Terence McGlyn
n's  invasive ants


Ants of Costa Rica : www.evergreen.edu
California desert ants http://www.desertants.org
Ants of Bahian Atlantic forest : research.amnh.org-entomology-social_insects-key_ants 
Ants of France: http://www.antbase.fr/index.php 
Ants of Nicaragua :
www.insectariumvirtual.com
Ants of Papua New Guinea http://www.newguineants.org/ 
Ants of Paraguay : entomology.ucdavis.edu
Ants of Chile : www.geocities.com
Ants of New Guinea: http://pick4.pick.uga.edu/mp/20q?act=x_checklist&guide=Ants_New_Guinea 

Army ants: Index.html (www.armyants.org)
Pseudomyrmecinae: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/ward/pseudo.html
Ants of Minnesota : www.acad.carleton.edu
MacKay lab : www.utep.edu

African ant research group : http://www.museums.org.za/bio/aarg/
The Ants of West Africa and the Congo Basin: Antcover.htm (research.amnh.org)
Madagascar : Keyantmadagascar.html (research.amnh.org)

Australian ants online : Default.htm (www.ento.csiro.au)

Japanese Ants Color Image Database: INDEXE.HTM (ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp)

Ant researchers & labs

ant researchers, lists : 
http://www.notesfromunderground.org/members/members.html
 http://www.museums.org.za/bio/aarg/antlinks.htm

Brandon Bestelmeyer : http://www.nps.ars.usda.gov/people/people.htm?personid=21774
C. Roberto F. Brandão (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo) :
http://www.bdt.fat.org.br/zoologia/formiga/index.html
Brian Fisher : http://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/personnel/CV's/fisher.html
Terrence P. McGlynn : http://www.sandiego.edu/~tmcglynn/
Michael Kaspari : http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/K/Michael.E.Kaspari-1/
Jack Longino : http://www.evergreen.edu/ants/
Jonathan Majer : http://www.envbio.curtin.edu.au/Majer.cfm



Termites

World : http://www.utoronto.ca/forest/termite/speclist.htm
Neotropics : http://www.unb.br/ib/zoo/docente/constant/catal/family.htm

Yves Roisin research unit, Université Libre de Bruxelles : http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/bioancel/yroisin/yroisin.htm
Termite Research Group, Natural History Museum, London : http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/projects/termites/

Biodiversity & conservation

Belgian portal site for information exchange in the field of biological diversity http://www.biodiversity.be/

Pro-Natura : http://www.pronatura.org.br/en/home/
Wilidlife Conservation Society : http://wcs.org/
The eden project : http://www.edenproject.com/
 
Centres of Plant diversity
(Smithsonian Institution)
Conservation International : http://www.conservation.org/xp/CIWEB/home
European Centre for Nature Conservation
Flora and Fauna International : http://www.fauna-flora.org/
IUCN : http://www.iucn.org/
Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) Initiative : http://www.teaminitiative.org/
World Wildlife Fund : http://www.wwf.org/
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute : www.stri.org



Scientific societies

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation : www.atbio.org
Tropical Biology Association : http://www.tropical-biology.org/home.html
Section française de l'Union Internationale pour l'Etude des Insectes Sociaux  www.univ-tours.fr
Society for Conservation Biology : http://www.conbio.net/scb/Default_EN.asp


Naturalist associations

Centre Paul Duvigneaud de Documentation Ecologique, CIVA

Databases

Ant Systematics References 1993 to 1999. April 30, 2000: http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/
Hymenoptera Name Server : http://atbi.biosci.ohio-state.edu:8880/hymenoptera/nomenclator.home_page
Tree of live : http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Formicidae&contgroup=Vespoidea
http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/animals/arthropoda/arthropoda.html
Geographic Names Database : http://164.214.2.59/gns/html/index.html
Ecoregions: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial_na.html



Freewares in Ecology

EstimateS : viceroy.eeb.uconn.edu
Ecosim : http://www.isima.fr/ecosim/
R package : http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/BIOL/legendre/indexEnglish.html
ADE 4 : http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/ADE-4/ADE-4.html
SciViews : http://www.sciviews.org/main.htm
MARK http://www.cnr.colostate.edu/~gwhite/mark/mark.htm
SPADE http://chao.stat.nthu.edu.tw/softwareCE.html 

Microscopy : digital imaging

Digitally Imaging Parasitic Hymenoptera : http://hymenoptera.tamu.edu/imaging/index.html


Canopy


Studying forest canopies from above: the international canopy crane network. Edited by Yves Basset, Vibeke Horlyck & S. Joseph Wright http://www.stri.org/english/research/facilities/terrestrial/cranes/canopy_crane_network.php

Canopy raft : www.radeau-des-cimes.org
The canopy raft architect website : Gilles Ebersolt http://www.gillesebersolt.com/hs/hs1.htm
 The climbers website : www.accrobranche.org

The Parataxonomist Training Centre, Papua New Guinea www.entu.cas.cz/png/index.html
Canopy Cranes in Panama www.stri.org/english/research/facilities/terrestrial/cranes/index.php 

The Global Canopy Programme www.globalcanopy.org 
The International Canopy Network www.evergreen.edu/ican 


Communication in Science

Unbiased scientific information on environment and health matters www.greenfactsfoundation.org

 

Photographers and film-makers

Roger Le Guen www.panacoco.com 

Jake Bryant www.envirofoto.com 

 

Humor & curiosities in Science

Journal of irreproducible results : http://www.jir.com/
Asymmetry curiosities : http://www2.biology.ualberta.ca/palmer/asym/Curiosities/Curiosities.htm
Scotch whiskies and data analysis : http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/biol/casgrain/en/labo/scotch.html
Rhinogrades (FR):  http://vennarecci.free.fr/Rhinogrades/index.htm

 

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