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Partner Federal Agencies

• U.S. Geological Survey
  • Biological Resources Division (formerly NBS)
  • Center for Biological Informatics
  • Office of Inventory and Monitoring
• MRLC (Multi Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium)
• C-CAP (NOAA Coastal Change Analysis Program)
• FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee)
• EROS Data Center (USGS)

Other Partner Organizations

• NatureServe
• The National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• MidAmerica Land Cover Mapping Consortium

Information Resources for GAP projects

• The EMAP Hexagon Grid
• FGDC Vegetation Classification
• Locate Taxonomic Expertise
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System 
• NBII Clearinghouse Gateway
• FGDC Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
• NBII Metadata Standards
• Searchable Database of Amphibian Counts
• Summary of Mean Amphibian Count CVs
• FGDC Vegetation Classification Subcommittee's home page
• MegaMerge Project Homepage
• The USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program
• Bird banding and recovery records
• Ecological Society of America's Veg Bank - VegBank is the vegetation plot database of the Ecological Society of America. Vegetation records, community types and plant taxa may be submitted to VegBank and may be subsequently searched, viewed, annotated, revised, interpreted, downloaded, and cited.
• Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps - This is a checklist of online vegetation and plant distribution maps, compiled by Claire Englander, from UC-Berekely and Philip Hoehn, David Rumsey Collection, San Francisco.

Vertebrate Distribution Models

• Digital Atlas of Idaho
• South Dakota Vertebrate Models
• Washington Vertebrate Distribution Models 
• Digital Species Atlas of Wyoming

Aquatic Resources

• National Hydrography Data
• Mediterranean Marine Gap Analysis

Other Links of Interest

GIS Resources

• ESRI 

Environmental Education

• The Nature Mapping Program

• "A Última Arca de Noé" (The Last Noah's Ark): A Brazilian site about ecology, environment, biodiversity, environmental education, animals, birding etc. Resources are available in both Portuguese and English. Focus is on Brazilian laws concerning the topics mentioned above. In Portuguese/English

Other GAP-Related Links

• Volunteer listings for GAP and other USGS projects: 

Other Federal Agency Resources

• Natural Resources Conservation Service Lighthouse: The vision of the Lighthouse Gateway is to provide easy access and delivery of geospatial environmental data to internal and external customers including the general publi . . . to deliver data to anyone, anywhere, anytime. 
• Pawtuxent Wildlife Research Center: The mission of the PWRC is to excel in wildlife and natural resource science, providing the information needed to better manage the nation's biological resources 
• SciTechResources.gov: Provides the scientist, engineer, and science- aware citizen with easy access to government resources.

Natural Resources Search Engines

• Forest Conservation Portal The site features a search index of the entire content of nearly 1,000 reviewed forest conservation sites and makes approximately 1/2 million URLS fully searchable.
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Web Search Site
• Tree of Life Web Project
• PLANTS Database - The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.

Other Organizations Working on Biodiversity Issues

• The Nature Conservancy
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Conservation International: Center for Applied Biodiversity Science
• World Conservation Union: World Parks Conference
• Conservation Biology Institute
• The Raincoast Conservation Society    
      The Coast Information Team - Publications
• The Wildlife Society
• The Global Islands Network  The Global Islands Network is a non-profit organisation established to facilitate people on islands to acquire, disseminate and utilizeknowledge resources."
• National Geographic
• UK Natural History Museum - Biodiversity
• The Sixth Extinction What is the Sixth Extinction? When is it coming and what is its cause? "It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause," explains Dr. Richard Leakey, the world's most famous paleoanthropologist.  To learn more about the Sixth Extinction visit this site.
• Forest Frontiers Initiative This powerpoint presentation, "The Last Frontier Forests: Ecosystems and Economies on the Edge" shows the dramatic decline of original pristine forest and the status of the large remaining tracts. In vivid full-page, full-color maps, it ranks country by country the perilous state of the world's forests today and provides systematic, easily comparable forestry profiles for Oceania, Asia, Europe and Russia, South America, North and Central America, and Africa. It also analyzes threats to the world's remaining fores areas and explains how to reverse these dangerous trends.
• Pacific Conservation Biology Journal: A journal dedicated to conservation and wildlife management in the Pacific region.