Butterflies of the Amazon - Links

Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe
The State Museum of Natural History Karlsruhe is a modern research and science distribution centre. It has a long experience in taxonomic and ecological studies in South America and large collections of invertebrates from all over the world.

Address:
Erbprinzenstr. 13
D-76133 Karlsruhe
hubert.hoefer@smnk.de
http://www.smnk.de

http://www.wandering-spiders.net

The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 9000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics.

http://www.tolweb.org/Arthropoda

Soil biota and biogeochemistry in Southern Atlantic rainforests of Brazil - Assessment of the ecosystem quality of secondary forests and their potential for biodiversity conservation.
A Brazilian-German cooperation project including a spider study

http://www.solobioma.ufpr.br

Competence Center for the Conservation of Biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil

Objective of the center is to produce, integrate and disseminate scientific knowledge for the development of models for a rational use of natural resources and for subsidizing public politics in conservation of biological diversity of the Mata Atlântica

http://www.inbioveritas.net

A coleção de invertebrados do Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) é uma importante fonte de informações sobre a biodiversidade da Amazônia. Ela reúne as coleções de 14 grupos de invertebrados: Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arachnida, Chilopoda, Crustacea, Diplopoda, Insecta, Mollusca, Nematoda, Plathyhelminthes, Pauropoda, Porifera, Rotifera e Symphyla. O acervo total é estimado em mais de 350.000 insetos alfinetados, aproximadamente a mesma quantia de insetos em mantas e cerca de cinco milhões de espécimes preservados em álcool e lâminas, entre grupos de insetos e não-insetos.

http://colecoes.inpa.gov.br/sb/invertebrados/html/