Plant sciences and the Italian National Biodiversity Network

Abstract

Several national and global initiatives aim to increase access to biodiversity information worldwide. The Italian National Biodiversity Network, started in the framework of the project “Sistema Ambiente 2010”, will organise and manage biodiversity data hosted by museums, universities and research centres in Italy, in order to make them widely available on the Web.

Keywords:

• Biodiversity Informatics
• checklist
• distributed database
• herbarium
• natural history collection

Acknowledgements

Funding by the Italian Ministry of the Environment (MATTM) in the framework of the project “Sistema Ambiente 2010” for the development of the Italian National Biodiversity Node (NNB) is gratefully acknowledged.