Links to Soil biodiversity
Below Ground Biodiversity Project
CEH (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (NERC, UK)) – Soil biodiversity and Ecosystem function
CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) (National Centre for Scientific Research) - Exploring Soils’ Genetic Biodiversity
Conservation and Sustainable management of Below Ground Biodiversity Project
CréBeo Project University College Dublin
Eco Walk the Talk – Environmental webs site focussing on Asia and ecology matters
ENVASSO (Environmental Assessment for Soil Monitoring)
Europa – Press release on Soil Biodiversity
European Commission (Environment) Soil Biodiversity
European Commission on soil biodiversity (publication)
European Commission Soil Biodiversity: Land Management and Natural Hazards Unit
Global Soil Map programme
Imperial College London, (UK) –NERC Centre for Population Biology
IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations)– Global Network for Forest Science Cooperation
NERC (National Environment Research Council, UK)- Soil Biodiversity
NERC (UK National Environment Research Council, UK) - Soil Biodiversity Programme: Biological Diversity and Ecosystem Function in Soil
SCRI Biodiversity
SciTopics –Research Summary on soil Biodiversity
Terragenome Project
Links to biodiversity and agriculture
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Diversitas- Agrobiodiversity: Science plan and implementation strategy
CIAT - International Centre for Tropical Agriculture
Countdown 2010 (network of partners organised through the IUCN about the 2010 Year of Biodiversity)
EfD (Environment for Development) Assessing linkages between agriculture and biodiversity in Central America: Historical overview and future perspectives
European Crop Protection Association - Agriculture needs Biodiversity and Biodiversity needs Agriculture
Eurpoa – Biodiversity Action plan for Agriculture
MOIST- Management of Organic Inputs in Soils of the Tropics - Cornell University International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development
Organic Farming Research Foundation, Ca, USA
Practical Action – Agricultural Biodiversity
RUAF (Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security) - Biodiversity, Poverty and Urban Agriculture, in Latin America
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP), University of California, USA
Soil Quality and Protection Program The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, UK
UK agriculture Conservation database
UKabc - SUSTAINING AGRICULTURAL BIODIVERSITY
UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) Initiative on Integrated Assessment of Trade-Related Policies and Biological Diversity in the Agriculture Sector - Brochure on Trade and Biodiversity:Trade-related Policy Assessment Agriculture and Biodiversity
United Nations Environment Programme : Soil Biodiversity Key to Environmentally Friendly Agriculture
Upward (Users’ Perspectives With Agricultural Research and Development)
Victorian Resources Online (Australia)
WWF Biodiversity Support Programme: Africa and Madagascar Program
Links to Economics and biodiversity
Biodiversity Economics
TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity)
Links to Ecosystem services
Ecosystem Services
ESPASSA (Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation Study in South Asia)
NERC (Natural environment Research Council, UK) Ecosystems Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA)
UNEP- WCMC: Carbon, biodiversity & ecosystem services: exploring co-benefits
Links to soil organisms
General
List of World culture collections
NRSC (Natural Resources Conservation Service)
The Association of Applied Biologists
University of California Museum of Paleontology
Viruses
ICTV (International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses)
Virology Journal
SCRI Virology research
Soil viruses
Archaea
Enigma and Hydrogen Regulation
Bacteria
Virtual Museum of Bacteria (Foundation of Bacteriology/ Society of Applied Microbiology)
NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation Service) - Soil Biology
Fungi
Aberden Mycorrhiza research group
Nature grid – Fungi
Visual Fungi
Nematodes
Nembase 3 – a data base on nematodes
University of Nebraska-Lincoln – what are nematodes?
Termites
Natural History Museum – termites
Algae
Agrra (Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Relief Assessment)
