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EURING European Union for Bird Ringing 



FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 



GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility; ~^OECD Megascience 

 Working Group on Biological Informatics 



GEF Global Environmental Facility 



GEIN German Environmental Information Network 



GELOS Global Environmental Information Locator Service 



GENRES Informationssysteme Genetische Ressourcen ^BML, ZADI/IGR 



GIS Geographisches-Informations-System 



GMSD's Global Master Species Databases; ^SP 2000 (Species 2000) 



GPC Global Plant Checkhst; ^lOPI 



GROMS Global Register of Migratory Species 



GUS Gemeinschaft unabhängiger Staaten (ehemalige Sowjetunion) 



lAPT International Association for Plant Taxonomy 



ICLARM International Centre for Living Aquatic Resources Management 



IGR Informationszentrum für genetische Ressourcen (^ZADI, BML) 



ILDIS International Legume Database & Information Service 



IMI International Mycological Institute (Index of Fungi); -»-GABI 



INBIO Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica) 



lOP International Organization for Paleobotany 



lOPI International Organization for Plant Information ^GPC, SP2000 



IPK Institut für Pflanzengenetik und Kulturpflanzenforschung Gatersleben 



IPNI International Plant Name Index 



ISIS International Species Information System 



lUBS International Union of Biological Sciences 



lUCN International Union for Conservation of Nature 



lUMS International Union of Microbiological Societies 



LIAS DELTA-based Determination and Data Storage System for Licheni- 

 zed and lichenicolous Ascomycetes (DFG-Projekt) 



MAB Man and Biosphere ->UNESCO 



MHNSM Museo de Historia Natural, "San Marcos", Lima, Peru 



MTD Museum für Tierkunde Dresden 



NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information der US A(^GenBank) 



NCU Names in Current Use ^lAPT 



