Recommended Links

Education Links
Escuela de Biología de la UCR
La labor de investigación de los profesores de la Escuela de Biología abarca una amplia gama de temas, tanto en el desarrollo de conocimiento básico como en la aplicación de las ciencias biológicas a la solución de diversos problemas nacionales. http://biologia.ucr.ac.cr/

Interactive key to Costa Rican mushrooms
A multiauthored DELTA Intkey data set has been developed for the mushroom genera 'Leccinum and Phylloporus in Costa Rica.' Access over the web requires the test version of Intkey and Windows95/NT or later. Data set can be downloaded for use off-line.
The authors are: R. E. Halling (New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, NY, USA), G. M. Mueller (Field Museum, Chicago, IL, USA), and M. J. Dallwitz (CSIRO, Canberra, Australia). They welcome any comments, suggestions or critique.

Kids for Saving Earth
The mission of Kids for Saving Earth Worldwide is to educate, inspire, and empower children to protect the Earth's environment. KSE Worldwide provides action-oriented educational materials to kids, families, groups, classrooms and schools, including educational materials, posters, and information support. KSE Worldwide has been an important supporter of land acquisition, conservation and environmental education in the Braulio Carrillo/La Selva Corridor.

Ethnobotanical Leaflets
A publication of Southern Illinois University Herbarium. An Ethnobotanical Walk with Luis Diego Gómez

Research Links
Methods in Ecology and Systematics (MES)
MES is a periodical journal three times at year. MES publishes papers concerned with systematics and ecology, particularly related to development of new methodologies and applications. We include publication of programmes and applications of computational systems. The papers submited may be theoreticals or observationals. .MES.

Ecoregional Network for Tropical Latin America (CIAT)
Somos un grupo de personas que trabajamos en organizaciones del Trópico Americano (gubernamentales, ONG, de base, educativas, de investigación, etc.) interesadas y/o ejecutando proyectos de desarrollo rural sostenible. La red cuenta ya con mas de 2.500 personas conectadas que reciben e intercambian información referente a temas de desarrollo rural y conservación. Redeco.

Martin A. Schlaepfer
http://www.dnr.cornell.edu/edge
On-line field guide to the amphibians and reptiles of Las Cruces.

Natural Selection
http://nature.ac.uk
Natural Selection is a gateway to quality, evaluated Internet resources in the natural world - subject coverage includes botany, zoology, palaeontology, ecology and environmental science. The service aims to help anyone with a purposeful interest in these subjects - from school children to senior researchers - locate quality, relevant Internet resources quickly and reliably.

The resources described and linked to by Natural Selection are selected, evaluated and reviewed by a team of information professionals with subject expertise, based mainly at The Natural History Museum in London. Other current contributors are based at the Universities of Oxford and Reading.

Eco-Portal - The EnvironmentalSustainability. Info Source
http://www.EnvironmentalSustainability.info/
An Information Gateway Empowering the Movement for Environmental Sustainability. The Eco-portal is the Internet's most comprehensive environmental resource ever, linking and providing full text search capabilities for the entire contents of over 3,000 reviewed Internet sites related to environmental sustainability. The site tracks the latest environmental news stories which are updated several times daily.

Conservation Links
International Canopy Network (ICAN)
The International Canopy Network (ICAN) is devoted to facilitating the continuing interaction of people concerned with forest canopies and forest ecosystems around the world. Also included at this web site is information on the recent National Geographic Society "Heroes of the High Frontier" which aired as a National Geographic Special on NBC, January 30, 1999. Part of this special was filmed at OTS' La Selva Biological Station.

Water for Life
The Wather for life is a program focused on water quality and quantity issues in the vecinity of Pringle's long-term research site in lowland Costa Rica.

Environmental Outreach Program focuses on water quality and quantity issues in the vicinity of OTS's La Selva Biological Station. This outreach component was initiated by graduate students from UGA's Conservation and Sustainable Development Program, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Costa Rica, the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS), and educators and leaders in local communities.

The web features (1) a volunteer stream monitoring (i.e., Adopt-a-Stream) manual in Spanish which provides details on how to initiate volunteer stream monitoring programs, sampling methodology, and data interpretation. (This program has been implemented in a local high school near La Selva and in high schools outside of San Jose); (2) a Study Guide (in Spanish) for local high school teachers with lesson plans on stream protection and water quality and quantity issues and (3) educational outreach posters.

Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical forests for the benefit of the global community. Their mission is to develop and promote economically viable and socially desirable alternatives to the destruction of this endangered, biologically diverse natural resource. Through their Allies in the Rainforest program, the Rainforest Alliance supports land acquisition, conservation and environmental education in the Braulio Carrillo/La Selva Corridor.

Biodiversity Support Program (BSP)
The BSP is a USAID-funded consortium of World Wildlife Fundat, The Nature Conservancy, and World Resources Institute. The web site, Bsponline , highlights results and insights gained from BSP's more than 12 years of working to understand the conditions under which biodiversity conservation can be achieved.

Forest Conservation Links
http://forests.org/links/ a reviewed Forest Conservation search space - browse by category, or search the entire content of the best Internet scientific & advocacy resources

Forest Conservation Portal
http://forests.org/ provides vast rainforest, forest and biodiversity conservation news & information; the mission of Forests.org is to contribute to ending deforestation, preserving old-growth forests, conserving all forests, maintaining climatic systems and commencing the age of ecological restoration

A Última Arca de Noé
http://www.aultimaarcadenoe.com Is a Brazilian site about ecology, environment, biodiversity, environmental education, animals, birding etc. Portuguese/English.