MAS 592/692: Mobile-Tensaw Delta: Finding Sources

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is the world’s largest open-access digital library for biodiversity literature and archives. BHL is revolutionizing global research by providing free, worldwide access to knowledge about life on Earth.

Data Basin is a science-based mapping and analysis platform that supports learning, research, and sustainable environmental stewardship.

GBIF—the Global Biodiversity Information Facility—is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments and aimed at providing anyone, anywhere, open access to data about all types of life on Earth.

iNaturalist is an online social network of people sharing biodiversity information to help each other learn about nature
It's also a crowdsourced species identification system and an organism occurrence recording tool. You can use it to record your own observations, get help with identifications, collaborate with others to collect this kind of information for a common purpose, or access the observational data collected by iNaturalist users.

Map of Life endeavors to provide ‘best-possible’ species range information and species lists for any geographic area. Map of Life aims to support effective and global biodiversity education, monitoring, research and decision-making by assembling and integrating a wide range of knowledge about species distributions and their dynamics over time. MOL is run by Jetz Lab: Global Biodiversity, Ecology & Conservation at Yale University

The Tree of Life shows how all life on Earth is related. In our interactive tree of life you can explore the relationships between 2,235,473 species and wonder at 105,463 images on a single zoomable page.