Encyclopedia of Life

Includes individualized pages for more than 1,000,000 species of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Only subsets of these pages, however, are comprehensive in terms of content

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Resource Type: Encyclopedia
Title/Alternate Title: Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)
Subjects Covered: The EOL dynamically synthesizes biodiversity knowledge about all known species, including their taxonomy, geographic distribution, collections, genetics, evolutionary history, morphology, behavior, ecological relationships, and importance for human well being
Contents: Includes individualized pages for more than 1,000,000 species of plants, animals, and microorganisms. Only subsets of these pages, however, are comprehensive in terms of content
Dates of Coverage: Current
Contact: Pat Reese (Patriciae.Reese@unt.edu)
Other Notes: The Encyclopedia will be an online reference and database on all 1.8 million species currently known to science and will stay current by capturing information on newly discovered and formally described species. The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth