Mariana Islands Terrestrial Biodiversity Project

This page is intended as a depository for resources which may useful in building a Terrestrial Biodiversity Inventory for the Mariana Islands.

Organizations

• Convention on Biodiversity
  • Global Taxonomy Initiative
• TDWG: Biodiversity Information Standards
• GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Data Portal
    • Test link: GBIF Records for Insects on Guam
    • How to Become a Data Provider
• PBIF: Pacific Biodiversity Information Forum
  • General Biodiversity Bibliography for Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia
  • Oaxaca Meeting: GBIF Establishment of PBIF PBIN (PowerPoint Presentation)
• NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure
  • PBIN: Pacific Basin Information Node
• BioNet International: the Global Network for Taxonomy
  • PACINET: Pacific LOOP of BioNet International
• Tree of Life Web Project
• Ecoport
• OBIS: Ocean Biogeography Information System
• DIVERSITAS: An International Program of Biodiversity Science
• Cook Islands Biodiversity Database
• University of California, Berkley
  • California Biodiversity Center
  • Essig Museum of Entomology
  • Gump South Pacific Research Station
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center
• Biodiversity Databases on Shoestring Budgets: The Canadian Arachnologist On-Line Spider Database
• E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum, University of Alberta
• MorphBank

On Line Journal

• Biodiversity Informatics

Biodiversity Data Resources in the Marianas

Biological Collections

• University of Guam Insect Collection
• University of Guam Herbarium
• Northern Marianas College Insect Collection

Electronic Databases

• MAD: Micronesian Arthropods Database; BioLink; A. Moore
  • On-line access to MAD using PHP scripts
• UOG Herbarium Database; Filemaker; L. Raulerson
  • Herbarium Catalog (PDF)

Wikis

• Western Micronesia Invasive Species Council Wiki
• University of Guam Cooperative Extension Service Knowledgebase Wiki

Taxonomic Lists, Surveys, etc.

• Marine Biodiversity of Guam and the Mariana Islands. Micronesica (vols 35-36). Includes checklists of marine and some freshwater organisms
• Insects of Micronesia Series (Bishop Museum / Micronesica)
• List of Insects and Mites Attacking Crops in Micronesia
• O. BOURQUIN. Dec 2002. Invertebrates recorded from the Northern Mariana Islands: Status 2002. Saipan: Northern Marianas College.
• Biological Expedition to the Northern Mariana Islands, Micronesia. Nat. Hist. Res., Special Issue No. 1. Chiba, Japan: Natural History Museum and Institute.
• Ant survey - Ross Miller
• Mollusc Survey - Barry Smith
• Freshwater Invertebrates - GEPA stream survey, Brent Tibbatts
• Freshwater Vertebrates - Brent Tibbatts
• Spiders
• Adair, Charles N. 1971. A review of fungi reported from the Mariana Islands. Micronesica 7 (1-2):79–83. PDF
• Miller's (1968) keys to the mosses, liverworts and hornworts of Guam and CNMI in Micronesica.

Funding Opportunities

• National Science Foundation
  • Biological Research Collections
  • Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories