Herramientas para evaluar la biodiversidad

Author: Jeroen Houdijk

  • Book review: The Origin of Species

    The Origin Of Species by Charles DarwinThe Origen Of SpeciesThe Origin of Species by Charles Darwin would be the first book to review without any doubt. You all probably know about the impact that made this book untill today, but did you actually read it too? Get your copy now. The book is also available in Kindle format. In fact, as I am reading the book now it is a bit early for a proper review, but so many people have already said something about the book that it would not add much in this case, so for the first review on Biodiversity Tools, this will be all.

    Charles Darwin – The Origin Of Species

  • Video 2: Field Methods for Documenting Biodiversity

    This is the second video in the Khan Acedemy series on Biodiversity. This series being very relevant for anyone studying biodiversity is the reason for embedding the following video’s as well. Asuming this content will stay online and available, the series is being shared at this site.

    The second video is about Field Methods for Documenting Biodiversity. It is explaining the advantages of multi-disciplenairy expeditions and the synergy that comes with that. About transport, equipment, planning, being prepared. Thinking about how to record the notes, data, photographs and so on. Specimen collection, live data sharing, GPS and GIS. But most of all, the thrill of discovery.

  • Video 1: Biodiversity expeditions


    Video (8.07 min) about biodiversity expeditions in the past and present times. Khan academy is a global classroom with free available content about varous topics. Many topics are on how biodiversity is studied. Biodiversity fieldwork, studying biodiversity in the lab and biodiversity analysis are examples of the subjects.

  • List of biodiversity databases

    In an attempt to list the available biodiversity databases, a first step has been made with publishing a alphabetic list of 29 resources.

    Some of the databases reflect species diversity of a specific country or region, others focus on a species group or habitat to bring together all available knowledge about that specific group, taxa or environment.

    A couple of initiatives try to put together all known species in a single database or online resource. Despite the efforts no institution has succeeded yet in doing so.
    Arctos database museum, Catalog of Life, the Encyclopedia of Life and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are examples of such efforts.

    If you have suggestions to complete the list of available resources, your citation and reference are welcomed, as well as discussions on how to use this online biodiversity tools, and your opinion on the best available biodiversity database. What are the pro’s and con’s of open source?