World and General

To search in the National Reports of the CBD use the CBD Website which includes also Full Text Search. Another good place to look for CBD dokuments is this page. You can search all decisions and recommendations of SBSTTA. To browse the CBD Documents see the so-called 'document centre'.

CBD Information Centre and Document Search covers all acronyms, reports and papers by the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Searches on CBD/GTI issues:

Avoid the use of CBD or GTI as there are many firms/businesses and other organisations using this acronym.

• CBD General search engine
• CBD all SBSTTA recommendations and COP decisions
• CBD National Reports

One may also consult the websites of Clearing House Mechanisms developed on a national level.

General search engines

Google, for general information on the web.

Scholar google, for publications in scientific journals.

Taxonomic listservers one can register for, in order to ask questions to the taxonomic community or to start discussions:

• Taxanomic Database Working Group – various listservers

General search engines on taxon and specimen information

• GBIF Global Bioiversity Information Facility

• GBIF Tools Download Service

• Search engine on biological names and specimen information

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections. This site is devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind. Within these pages you will find information about specimens in biological collections, taxonomic authority files, directories of biologists, the Delta system and links for hundreds of biodiversity and collection resources.

• Search the ETI service (World Biodiversity Database)

Search engines for plant information

EPIC search engine for botanical names

IPNI International Plant Names Index (including authors of plant names + protolog) :

Search plant names at Missouri Botanical Garden online database TROPICOS (including literature and maps)

Search engines for zoological information

Zoological Record search engine for zoological names + authors + publications)

Search engines for mycological information

Directory of Mycology Resources

Search engines for information on bacteria and archaea

CABRI catalogues on Bacteria and Archaea

Taxonomic Search Engine: Federating taxonomic databases using web services

Insect Resources

Iowa State Entomology Index of Internet Resources

Europe

Countries