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INFORMATION RESOURCES > Acronyms & abbreviations > Organizations, projects & thematic networks

  • BCIS: Biodiversity Conservation Information System.
  • BioCASE: Biodiversity Collection Access System for Europe.
  • BioCISE: Resource Identification for a Biological Collection Information Service in Europe.
  • CABRI: Common Access to Biotechnological Resources and Information.
  • CBD: Convention on Biological Diversity.
  • CHM: Clearing House Mechanism.
  • CETAF: Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities.
  • CIRCA: Communication and Information Resource Centre Administrator.
  • DIVERSITAS: An International Programme of Biodiversity Sciences.

    DIVERSITAS is an international global environmental change research programme sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU), SCOPE (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment), IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences), IUMS (International Union of Microbiological Societies) and UNESCO-MAB (Man and the Biosphere).

  • EC-CHM: European Community Biodiversity Clearing-House Mechanism.
  • EBRCN: European Biological Resource Centre Network.
  • EC: European Commission.
  • EEA: European Environment Agency.
  • EIONET: European Environment Information and Observation NETwork.
  • EMBnet: European Molecular Biology Network.
  • ENBI: European Network for Biodiversity Information.
  • ENHSIN:European Natural History Specimen Information Network.
  • EPBRS: European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy.
  • EPGRIS: European Plant Genetic Resources Information Infra-Structure.
  • ERMS: European Register of Marine Species.
  • EU: European Union.
  • EUNIS: European Nature Information System.
  • EuroCat: Acronym for Species 2000 in Europe.
  • Fauna Europaea: EC financed project to assemble a database of the scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water.
  • GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
  • GTI: Global Taxonomy Initiative.
  • Natura 2000: Natura 2000 is the EU network of sites designates by Member States under the Bird Directive and under the Habitats Directive.
  • Species 2000: Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.
  • RefTax: The Project 'Taxon Names References'
 
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