Research
http://www.globalamphibians.org/index.html
Representing the expertise of over 500 herpetologists, the "Global Amphibian Assessment (GAA) is the first-ever comprehensive assessment of the conservation status of the world's 5,753 known species of frogs, toads, salamanders, and caecilians. This website presents results of the assessments, including IUCN Red List threat category, range map, ecology information, and other data for every amphibian species." The GAA Database is searchable by Name, Taxonomy, Status, Habitat, Country, and more. The site also contains information about GAA Partners, Methods, Data Types, Limitations of Data, and Key Findings. In addition, site visitors can link to a downloadable report analyzing GAA results in relation to New World amphibians. [NL]
Research at the Environmental Protection Agency's Ecosystems Research Division (ERD) "includes studies of the behavior of contaminants, nutrients, and biota in environmental systems, and the development of mathematical models to assess the response of aquatic systems, watersheds and landscapes to stresses from natural and anthropogenic sources." The ERD website contains information about a wide variety of research foci including: Nitrogen and Redox Speciation in Environmental Systems; Lock Lake Tidal Marsh Study; Exposure Analysis Modeling System; Oil Spills; Brownfields, and more. The site offers a collection of downloadable publications and fact sheets and lists complete publications from 1995 onward as well. Site visitors will also find contact information for staff, presentation abstracts, information about various research opportunities, and a link to available ERD software. [NL]
Established in 1991 at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the Biogeography Lab conducts "research on the ecology, distribution and conservation of species and ecosystems using field studies, geographic information systems and remote sensing." Site visitors can learn about ongoing research projects in the general areas of Landscape Ecology, Conservation Planning, and Remote Sensing & GIS. The lab website contains lists for newer publications, technical reports, theses and dissertations, conference proceedings, and more. Many of the publications are either downloadable, or hyperlinked to the abstract or full text. The site also links to contact and background information for staff, and to data for some of the Lab's older projects. A number of related links are listed at the site as well. [NL]
http://www.mycokey.com/Ecuador.html
This Fungi of Ecuador website shares results from a fungal biodiversity research project conducted by mycologists Thomas Laessøe, of the University of Copenhagen, and Jens H. Petersen, of the University of Aarhus. The site offers a Collections Database with search fields for species, collector, herbarium, locality, and more. The site's Taxon Database allows visitors to search for trophic strategy, systematic group, form group, and name. The site also provides a collection of beautiful photographs that can be located by either an index or database search engine. Notably, the site offers an extensive list of relevant literature spanning the past 100 years. In addition, the site contains selected links and also a couple photos of a simple cardboard dryer, with brief notes about drying specimens in the tropics. [NL]
http://www.csuchico.edu/biol/Herb/database.html
With over 88,000 mounted and dried specimens, the "Biological Sciences Herbarium at California State University, Chico is the most complete repository of plant specimens from northeastern California. The emphasis is on the local flora, and includes a number of rare, threatened, and endangered plant species." Samples in the Herbarium include ferns, conifers, flowering plants, lichens, bryophytes, and slime molds. The Herbarium Database is still adding specimen label information, but currently contains 66,477 specimen records. The Database includes search fields for Genus, Species, and Subspecies. All higher academic institutions are eligible for specimen loans from the Herbarium. [NL]
The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) was set up in 1998 "to coordinate and enhance the activities of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the arena of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)." In service of this goal, OCCAM works to promote and support "research within CAM disciplines and modalities as they relate to the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer, cancer-related symptoms and side effects of conventional treatment." The OCCAM website provides information about Funding Opportunities, Research Resources, Conferences, Clinical Trials, and more. The site also contains a variety of information about CAM; as well as links to other resources including a 61-page, downloadable document developed to assist researchers seeking cancer CAM grants. [NL]
