Directory of Ecosystems Resources

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An ecosystem is a community of organisms and their physical environment interacting as an ecological unit. This ODP category is for web sites related to particular ecosystems, such as forests, rain forests, tundra, prairies, and deserts.

Subcategories

• Caves
• Deserts
• Estuarine
• Forest
• Freshwater
• Grasslands, Savannas and Shrublands
• Management
• Marine
• Restoration Ecology
• Tundra

Resources in This Category

• Biodiversity and Mutualism in Ecosystems

  http://angelfire.com/sk/monkeypuzzle/mbiooverviewmain.html
  Technical paper on the importance of biodiversity and mutualism (co-operation between different species) to ecosystem function and structural organization.

• Comprehensive Protected Areas System Composition and Monitoring

  http://www.birdlist.org/downloads/micosys/protected_areas_system_composition&monitoring.pdf
  IUCN task force report on methods for optimizing national protected areas systems that maximise species conservation through targeted selection based on broadly accepted ecological principles.

• Ecosystems Classification and Mapping

  http://www.ecosystems.ws/
  The World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE, provides information, tools and resources.

• Images of the Dry Tropics

  http://www.explorelifeonearth.org/drytropics.html
  Photographs of plants, animals, and landscapes from dry tropical habitats in the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. Dry tropical habitat types include tropical dry forest, tropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, spiny desert, savannah, cerrado, and caatinga.

• MBGnet

  http://www.mbgnet.net/
  Descriptions and images of the biomes of the world, freshwater ecosystems, and marine ecosystems. From the Missouri Botanical Garden.

• Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World

  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html
  Maps, descriptions, and index to 687 ecoregions across the globe. Javascript required.

• The Principles of the Transboundary System of Nature Environment Protection: The Upper Bug

  http://sites.google.com/site/platontretyak/theprinciplesofthetransboundarysystemofn
  Project to protect the ecosystems of the Western Bug basin, on the boundary between Poland and Ukraine, by collaboration between the two countries.

• The World's Biomes

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/
  Introduction to aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra biomes. School class project.

• WorldBiomes

  http://www.worldbiomes.com/
  Covering five of the major world biomes.

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