i want to know about the basic concept of "Biodiversity informatics"?
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try this website\n\nhttp://www.nscalliance.org/bioinformatics/databases.asp
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(m)\n\nBioinformatics is the application of computer technology to the management of biological information. Computers are used to gather, store, analyze and integrate biological and genetic information which can then be applied to gene-based drug discovery and development. The need for Bioinformatics capabilities has been precipitated by the explosion of publicly available genomic information resulting from the Human Genome Project. The goal of this project - determination of the sequence of the entire human genome (approximately three billion base pairs) - will be reached by the year 2002. The science of Bioinformatics, which is the melding of molecular biology with computer science, is essential to the use of genomic information in understanding human diseases and in the identification of new molecular targets for drug discovery. In recognition of this, many universities, government institutions and pharmaceutical firms have formed bioinformatics groups, consisting of computational biologists and bioinformatics computer scientists. Such groups will be key to unraveling the mass of information generated by large scale sequencing efforts underway in laboratories around the world.
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Maybe you will find this article useful. It explains the concept of information entropy.
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I kindly suggest you go limewire.com and download the software and install then search with sensible keywords and get what you want. I have found lots of molecular biology, biotechnology, neurology, immunology etc. e-books as well as some "nature" papers as well. I do not think any site that  publishes science e-books( well, any comprehensive e-books) without a significant charge for it exist. \nTake care
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See the links\nhttp://www.ethnobiomed.com/content/2/1/14 \nhttp://nistads.res.in/contents/genart/ga-rkk1.htm \nhttp://www.rmh.uwyo.edu/species/wybiblio.pdf \nhttp://indiaclub.com/Shop/SearchResults.asp?prodstock=12981 \nhttp://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/zafeer.htm \nhttp://www.univnorthco.edu/biology/SRMIF/SRMIFChecklistFeb04.pdf
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i can give u a correct description.\nclassification, in biology, the systematic categorization of organisms into a coherent scheme. The original purpose of biological classification, or systematics, was to organize the vast number of known plants and animals into categories that could be named, remembered, and discussed. Modern classification also attempts to show the evolutionary relationships among organisms (see the table entitled Examples of Systematic Classification). A system based on categories that show such relationships is called a natural system of classification; one based on categories assigned only for convenience (e.g., a classification of flowers by color) is an artificial system. \n\nModern classification is part of the broader science of taxonomy, the study of the relationships of organisms, which includes collection, preservation, and study of specimens, and analysis of data provided by various areas of biological research. Nomenclature is the assigning of names to organisms and to the categories in which they are classified.\n\nA modern branch of taxonomy, called numerical taxonomy, uses computers to compare very large numbers of traits without weighting any type of trait : in contrast to the traditional view that certain characteristics are more significant than others in showing relationships. For example, the structure of flower parts is considered more significant than the shape of the leaves in flowering plants because leaf shape appears to evolve much more quickly. Much of the science of taxonomy has been concerned with judging which traits are most significant. If new evidence reveals a better basis for subdividing a taxon than that previously used, the classification of the group in question may be revised. A considerable number of classification changes as well as insights in recent years have been the result of comparisons of nucleic acid (genetic material) sequences of organisms.\n\ndo u want to know what is binomial nomenclature?\nThe present system of binomial nomenclature identifies each species by a scientific name of two words, Latin in form and usually derived from Greek or Latin roots. The first name (capitalized) is the genus of the organism, the second (not capitalized) is its species. The scientific name of the white oak is Quercus alba, while red oak is Quercus rubra. The first name applies to all species of the genus : Quercus is the name of all oaks : but the entire binomial applies only to a single species. Many scientific names describe some characteristic of the organism (alba=white; rubra=red); many are derived from the name of the discoverer or the geographic location of the organism. Genus and species names are always italicized when printed; the names of other taxa (families, etc.) are not. When a species (or several species of the same genus) is mentioned repeatedly, the genus may be abbreviated after its first mention, as in Q. alba. Subspecies are indicated by a trinomial; for example, the southern bald eagle is Haliaeetus leucocephalus leucocephalus, as distinguished from the northern bald eagle, H. leucocephalus washingtoniensis.\n\nThe advantages of scientific over common names are that they are accepted by speakers of all languages, that each name applies only to one species, and that each species has only one name. This avoids the confusion that often arises from the use of a common name to designate different things in different places (for example, see elk), or from the existence of several common names for a single species. There are two international organizations for the determination of the rules of nomenclature and the recording of specific names, one for zoology and one for botany. According to the rules they have established, the first name to be published (from the work of Linnaeus on) is the correct name of any organism unless it is reclassified in such a way as to affect that name (for example, if it is moved from one genus to another). In such a case defin
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Taxonomy is:\n\nThe classification of organisms in an ordered system that indicates natural relationships. \nThe science, laws, or principles of classification; systematics. \nDivision into ordered groups or categories.\nAn orderly classification of plants and animals according to their presumed natural relationships :-)
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Duma, I see you've already asked this question twice. What you should do is contact some invertebrate researcher (in a museum or natural history institution) for help, because local keys and checklists of fauna are not easy to find unless one knows where to look for them.\n\nHere are some links to papers with reference to Asian species, that's the closest I could get.\nhttp://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/39.4/285-294.pdf\nhttp://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/40.4/276.pdf\nhttp://www.senckenberg.uni-frankfurt.de/odes/03-11.pdf\n\nHere's a link to a journal that specializes in invertebrate systematics:\nhttp://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/121/issue/529.htm\n\nAnd here's the citation of two papers about freshwater earthworms:\n \nOhtaka, A.; Usman, R. 1997. Records of tubificid oligochaetes from Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia, with description of a new species of Aulodrilus Bretscher. Species Diversity 2: 145-154.\nOhtaka, A.; Hartoto, D.I.; Usman, R. 2000. Preliminary study on freshwater Oligochaeta in Indonesia. Rep. Suwa Hydrobiol. 12: 29-38\n\nYou coult try to contact Mr Ohtaka.\nhttp://read.jst.go.jp/ddbs/plsql/KNKY_EG_24?code=1000003153
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The University of Michigan's Animal Diversity Web (ADW) http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html is an excellent online database of animal history, distribution, classification and conservation biology.
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http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/
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http://www.nature.com/nature/index.html
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On the web: \nAnimal Diversity Web - a really entertaining and informative site!\nhttp://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html\nThen there's an enormous quantity of books, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel, National Geographic... and here, of course :) \nAsk away!
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It depends what sort of resource you are looking for. For general information on these technologies, see Wikipedia's articles on wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki and blog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog\n\nIf you're looking for news or opinions on these, try searching Technorati for relevant tags. See http://www.technorati.com/tag/wiki for example.
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then what are you waiting for? go to the library and read up...\n\ni'll only give you ideas of nature: plants, flowers, birds, animals, insects, mountains, trees, bushes, fungi, rivers, fish, rocks, waterfalls.
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U can try out microsoft encarta encyclopedia or www.wiley.com
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http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=IT+services+taxonomy&kgs=0&kls=1
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I took this from wikipedia. It's for reference!!\n\nAn ecosystem, a contraction of "ecological" and "system", refers to the collection of components and processes that comprise, and govern the behavior of, some defined subset of the biosphere. The term is generally understood to refer to all biotic and abiotic components, and their interactions with each other, in some defined area, with no conceptual restrictions on how large or small that area can be. \nIn biology, Abiotic components are nonliving chemical and physical factors in the environment. Often, these are described as light, temperature, water, atmospheric gases, wind as well as soil (edaphic) and physiographic (nature of land surface) factors.\nThese factors could be said to be the definitions for the exact environmental conditions in which plants need to grow.\nOxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen are the most commonly described gasses; and the wind, soil, and physiographic conditions can also combine in multiple ways to affect organisms.\nIn general terms an ecological system can be thought of as an assemblage of organisms (plant, animal and other living organisms—also referred to as a biotic community or biocoenosis) living together with their environment (or biotope), functioning as a loose unit. That is, a dynamic and complex whole, interacting as an "ecological unit."\n\n\nOther population ecologists, stochastists, (den Boer & Reddingius, 1996), view an ecosystem as an expression of stochastic events, and corresponding responses from organisms. Thus, ecosystems result from the sums of infinite individual responses of organisms to stimuli from non-living and living elements in the environment. The presence or absence of populations merely depends on reproductive and dispersal success and population levels fluctuate in response to stochastic (chance) events. As the number of species in an ecosystem is higher, the number of stimuli is also higher.\n\nCheck the link for more info you need. I'm not familiar with this, besides basic info but hopefully this helps.