EDIT WP5 Platform for Cybertaxonomy

The HTML compilation and link collection of relevant European databases on environmental and biological data (http://edit.csic.es/Databases.html), includes:
- Databases on surface units (administrative units and regular equal-area units): Sources of the GIS layers of surface units available at the Geoplatform (http://edit.csic.es/).
- Databases on environmental data: Sources of the GIS layers of environmental variables available at the Geoplatform, together with other interesting databases on various environmental issues at the global and European extent.
- Databases on biological data: Taxonomic databases for the whole biota of for specific groups.

Links to relevant European databases on environmental and biological data:
- Surface units:
Geoplatform MNCN (Spanish Museum of Natural Sciences http://edit.csic.es/
European Environmental Agency (EEA) http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=625
Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG) http://www.tdwg.org/standards/109/
- Environmental data:
WorldClim http://www.worldclim.org
WorldClim - Future climate http://www.worldclim.org/future.htm
Köppen-Geiger climate classification http://koeppen-geiger.vu-wien.ac.at/
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) http://www.ipcc-data.org/ar4/gcm_data.html
National Geophysical Data Centre (USA-NOAA-NGDC) http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html
Global Landcover Facility http://www.landcover.org/
Land Cover Map for Europe in the Year 2000 (European Commision) http://www-gvm.jrc.it/glc2000/
Gridded Population of the World http://sedac.ciesin.org/gpw/
Weather Underground http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/
Clark Labs http://www.clarklabs.org/products/data-archives.cfm
UNEP GEO Data Portal http://geodata.grid.unep.ch/
UNEP GEMS Water - GEMSTAT http://www.gemstat.org
UNEP-WCMC World Database Protected Areas http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdbpa
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) http://search.unfccc.int/
United Nations Statistics http://www.un.org/esa/progareas/stats.html
ECOLEX - a gateway to environmental law http://www.ecolex.org/index.php
FAO Statistics http://www.fao.org/waicent/portal/statistics_en.asp
Biosafety Clearing-House http://bch.biodiv.org/
CIESIN socio-economic data and applications center http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu
Global Change Master Directory (a directory to Earth science data and services) http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Internet Directory of Nuclear Resources of IAEA http://www.iaea.org/inis/ws/subjects/research_institutes.html
OECD/IEA statistics http://www.iea.org/textbase/publications/index.asp
Ramsar databases http://www.wetlands.org/RSDB/
World Glacier Monitoring Service http://www.wgms.ch
World Resources Institute: EarthTrends http://earthtrends.wri.org/
EEA Data Service http://dataservice.eea.eu.int
European Center for Nature Conservation http://www.ecnc.nl/
European Commission DG - Env statistics http://europa.eu.int/comm/environment/statistics_en.htm
European Commission JRC - Institute for Environment and Sustainabilty - data portals http://ies.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index.php?page=data-portals
European Nature Information System (EUNIS) http://eunis.eea.eu.int/
Eurostat Environment and Energy Data http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=1090,1&_dad=portal&...
- Biological data:
Digital Distribution Maps of the World's Amphibians http://www.natureserve.org/getData/amphibianMaps.jsp
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility) http://www.gbif.org
Fauna Europaea http://www.faunaeur.org/
European Register of Marine Species (MarBEF) http://www.marbef.org/data/
Nomenclator Zoologicus http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/
Index Animalium http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/indexanimalium/
OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System http://www.iobis.org/
Encyclopedia of Life http://www.eol.org/
Biodiversity Heritage Library http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/
Biology Base http://www.biologybase.com/
European Marine Mollusca (CLEMAM) http://www.somali.asso.fr/clemam/index.php
Orthoptera Species File Online http://tettigonia.com/