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NHM The Natural History Museum, London, UK 



NSF National Science Foundation der USA 



OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development 



OPTIMA Organization for the Phytotaxonomic Investigation of the Mediterra- 

 nean Area 



PFRS Plant Fossil Record Information System -^lOP 



PNP The Plant Names Project 



RMNL Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie, Leiden, Niederlande 



SA 2000 Systematics Agenda 2000 



SBSTTA Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice 



SCBD Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 



SP2000 Species 2000 project 



SPP Species Plantarum Project ^lOPI 



TDWG Taxonomic Databases Working Group (lUBS Commission on Taxo- 

 nomic Databases) 



TITAN Taxonomic Index to Animal Names; ^BIOSIS/ZR 



TRITON Taxonomy Resource & Index To Organism Names ^BIOSIS/ZR 



UBA Umweltbundesamt 



UDK Umwelt-Daten-Katalog 



UIS Umwelt-Informations-System 



UN United Nations 



UNDP United Nations Development Program 



UN/ECE UN Economic Commission for Europe 



UNEP United Nations Environment Program 



UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 



USDA United States Department of Agriculture 



US FGDC US Federal Geographic Data Commission 



US-OBI US Organization for Biodiversity Information 



WBD World Biodiversity Database ^ETI 



WCMC World Conservation Monitoring Center 



WDCM World Data Centre for Microorganisms 



WFCC World Federation for Culture Collections 



WRI World Resource Institute 



WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature 



