Links - Specialist Scientific / Technical Resources

National Botanic Garden of Wales (NBGW)

http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/

Welcome to the National Botanic Garden of Wales, the first national botanic garden to be created in the new millennium.This year is our fifth birthday. In such a short time period, we have developed into one of the most fascinating gardens in the UK. Already we have the most visited garden in Wales and are helping to conserve some of the rarest plants in the world. Have a look around this site to find out more about us.

Natural History Museum (NHM)

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/biodiversity/

Discover why the world’s biodiversity is under threat and what will happen to us as biodiversity decreases. Also find out about the problems that come with trying to measure it and how the museum’s work is helping in the study and conservation of biodiversity.

NHM Nature Navigator – a guide to British wildlife names

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/biodiversity/nature-navigator/

Explore Britain’s wildlife and view artworks from the Natural History Museum’s collections.

The Phenology Network

http://www.phenology.org.uk/

The UK Phenology network – seeking to collate and store all UK data on Nature’s Calendar.

Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland

http://www.habitas.org.uk/marinelife/

This photographic guide covers a selection of the larger animals which live round the coasts of Britain and Ireland. It is intended for divers and marine biologists who need to be able to recognise species in situ and is not an exhaustive identification guide. There is also a species name search facility based on the Species Directory . This is a comprehensive listing of species associated with marine habitats in Great Britain and Ireland.

National Museum Wales

http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/biosyb/?display_mode=low

BioSyB' is the new name for the amalgamation of two of the founding departments of our museum, Botany and Zoology, as it explains more accurately what we do: the naming of plants and animals, and the study of their classification, evolutionary history, form and structure and all aspects of physiology, genetics, biochemistry, behaviour and molecular biology.

Natural Environment Research Council

http://www.nerc.ac.uk/

NERC funds world-class science in universities and our own research centres that increases knowledge and understanding of the natural world. We are tackling the 21st century's major environmental issues such as climate change, biodiversity and natural hazards. We lead in providing independent research and training in the environmental sciences.

Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)

http://www.ceh.ac.uk/

CEH is the UK's Centre of Excellence for research in the land and freshwater environmental sciences. CEH's staff have specialist skills in a wide range of environmental disciplines, ranging from the smallest scale (the gene) to the largest scale (whole Earth systems).

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS)

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is a component of the Natural Environment Research Council. Based in Cambridge UK, it has, for almost 60 years, undertaken the majority of Britain's scientific research on and around the Antarctic continent

The Institute of Zoology

http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/ioz/

The Institute of Zoology is the research division of ZSL, specialising in scientific issues relevant to the conservation of animal species and their habitats.

Biota

http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/T1.HTM

Searchable database of literature, web links, photos and research. Using scientic classification.