Ecosystems Websites

Descriptions and images of the biomes of the world, freshwater ecosystems, and marine ecosystems. From the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Covering five of the major world biomes.

Technical paper on the importance of biodiversity and mutualism (co-operation between different species) to ecosystem function and structural organization.

Maps, descriptions, and index to 687 ecoregions across the globe. Javascript required.

Photographs of plants, animals, and landscapes from dry tropical habitats in the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. Dry tropical habitat types include tropical dry forest, tropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, spiny desert, savannah, cerrado, and caatinga.

The World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE, provides information, tools and resources.

IUCN task force report on methods for optimizing national protected areas systems that maximise species conservation through targeted selection based on broadly accepted ecological principles.

Project to protect the ecosystems of the Western Bug basin, on the boundary between Poland and Ukraine, by collaboration between the two countries.