IBOY Articles and Books

Written by the popular press

Written by scientific/conservation press

Written by the IBOY Secretariat and Project Leaders

Books

Written by the Popular Press About IBOY and IBOY Projects

• Bermuda Sun, June 14, 2002: Underground wonders now just a click away

• Rueters, March 5, 2002: Scientists Set First Complete Ant-Thology

• The Royal Gazette, January 17, 2002. Island Caves Face Extinction, Warns Scientist.

• El Universal, August 28, 2001 (Venezuela): Parques Nacionales Recorren El Mundo Por El Ciberespacio

• The Salt Lake City Tribune, August 7, 2001 (Salt Lake City, UT, USA): Scientists Emphasize Biodiversity

• Manna, Marcia. "Adventurer Finds 'Oasis' in Filmmaking," The San Diego Union-Tribune June 10, 2001.

• Bird, M. (May 14, 2001) Building a Digital Ark: An online library of the natural world takes shape, thanks to Internet advances and a U.S. company. Time Magazine. pg. 79.

• Jornal do Brasil, February 5, 2001 (Brasil): Os ilustres desconhecidos do planeta

• Orbita Popular, February 2001 (Lima, Peru): Dia Internacional de la Biodiversidad

• Boulder Daily Camera, January 30, 2001 (Boulder, CO, USA): Biodiversity project to count species worldwide

• Yomiuri Shibun, January 24, 2001, DIWPA-IBOY and Biodiversity

• pte.online, January 22, 2001 (Austria): 2001/2002: Internationales Jahr der Biodiversität

• Environment News Service, December 29, 2000: New millennium brings search for new life on earth

• McClintock, Jack. “As we learn about biological diversity, Earth is losing it” The San Diego Union-Tribune. November 23, 2000. p. A29.

• Estonian Nature. Nov. 2000.

• Arthur, Nicole. “Sea for Yourself” The Washington Post. October 6, 2000. p. N72.

• Kreisher, Otto. “Review: Ocean Oasis” The San Diego Union-Tribune. September 30, 2000. p. E7

• Morgan, Neil. "A Sydney View, a Baja Film Hit, our City Council and a Tax Rebel," The San Diego Union-Tribune September 19, 2000.

• Ringle, Ken. “Ocean Oasis Poetry Under the Sea” The Washington Post. September 13, 2000. p. C01

Written by the Scientific/Conservation Press

About IBOY

• Powledge, F. 2002. A Look Back at the International Biodiversity Observation Year. BioScience 52(12): 1070-1079.

• Science, September 21, 2001, 293(5539): 2175: Going, Going, Gone

• Denver Museum of Nature and Science, September 2001, 2(9): Sharing Our Planet

• BioMedNet, August 3, 2001: Conjuring an Image of the Environment - International Biodiversity Observation Year

• Tempo Medico News, May 17, 2001 (Italy): L'Ultima Estinzione

• The Scientist, May 14, 2001, 15(10): 1: Biodiversity Lovers, Unite

• La Crónica, January 11, 2001 (Mexico): Proponen el 2001 como Año Internacional de la Observación de la Biodiversidad

• BioMedNet, January 4, 2001: Biodiversity 2001: Cataloguing all life, in a hurry

• Biodiversity, Winter 2000 11(1): Scientists Launch the IBOY

• Diversity, 16(4) 2000: International Biodiversity Initiative Welcomes Participation of Genetic Resources Communitiy in Public Outreach, Scientific Cross-Collaboration

• Unipublic - Umwelt and Technik, April 10, 2001 (Switzerland): International Year of Biodiversity

• Science Daily Magazine: Scientists Launch the International Biodiversity Observation Year (IBOY) to raise Awareness of Biodiversity

• Biodiversity Notes, Fall 2000: Celebrate International Biodiversity Observation Year in 2001-2002

• Biological Sciences Curriculum Study, The Natural Selection. Fall 2000 (USA): 11.

• Slovakian Ecological Society, Sekos Bulletin. 7(2): 42-43.

• Norris, S. 2000. A year for biodiversity. Bioscience 50(2): 103-107.

About IBOY Projects

• "Assembling the Tree of Life." 2001. Biology International (42): 32-33.

• Brooks, T. (2000) Living on the edge. Nature 403: 26-28

• Clark, T. (2002) Formidable catalogue puts army of ants online. Nature 416: 115.

• Dalton, R. (2000) WWW project aims to address worldwide decline in amphibians. Nature 403: 41-472.

• Environmental News Network, November 2, 2001. First Global Look at the Biodiversity Beneath our Feet.

• Keenlyside, S. (2000) Noah’s ARKive: Preserving endangered species for posterity. RealScreen. Natural History. pg. 26

• Lonsdale, Mark. 1999. Base Rates and Comparisons of Invasibility. GCTE News 14:9.

• Morin, PA et al. 2000. Preservation of DNA from Endagered Species. Science 289(5480): 725d.

• National Geographic, October 2001, 200(4). EarthPulse. Wild Species: Paving the road to extinction

• National Geographic Today, March 4, 2002: Army of Microscopic Life Probed for Health of Planet's Soil

• New Life from Sea-Fed Caves. 2001. National Geographic August 2001.

• NOAA ocean explorer webcast. (September 8-Ocotober 1, 2001) Explorations: Deep East.

• Pennisi, E. (2001) Preparing the Ground for a Modern 'Tree of Life.' Science 293: 1979-1980.

• Science 296(5570): 986: Meet Some Troglodytes

• Science 295(5563): 2183: Ant Mound

• Science, (2001) 293(5539): 2175: Going, Going, Gone

• Texas Houston Chronicle Magazine. (September 10, 1998) No Room for Mistakes.

• Wallace, J. (2000) A Gathering of Wonders: Behind the Scenes at the American Museum of Natural History. St. Martins Press Inc.

Written by the IBOY Secretariat and Project Leaders

Secretariat

• Wall, D., Mooney, H., Adams, G., Boxshall, G., Dobson, A., Nakashizuka, T., Seyani, J., Samper, C., and Sarukhan, J. 2001. An International Biodiversity Observation Year. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 16(1): 52-54.
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Project Leaders

• 2000: Special Issue: Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Oceanography 13(3).

• Ayensu, E., et al. 1999. International ecosystem assessment. Science 286: 685-686.

• Ayensu, E., et al. 2000. Biosphere management: Some tools of the trade - Response. Science 287: 234-235.

• Baldocchi, D., et al. FLUXNET: A new tool to study the temporal and spatial variability of ecosystem-scale carbon dioxide, water vapor, and energy flux densities. 2001. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 82: 11: 2415-2434.

• Bari, A., Martin, A. Barranco, D., Gonzalez-Andujan, J.L. Ayad, G., Padulosi, S. 2002. Use of fractals to capture and analyse biodiversity in plant morphology. In: Emergent nature - patterns, growth and scaling in the Sciences. Miroslav M. Novak, ed. World Scientific Publisher.

• "Base Rates and Comparisons of Invasibility" GCTE News 14:(9)

• Bisby, F.A. The quiet revolution: Biodiversity Informatics on the Internet. Science 289: 2309-2312.

• Boxshall, G.A., Iliffe, T.M. (2001) The Epacteriscidae, a cave-living family of calanoid copepods. Sarsia. 86:1-40.

• Boxshall, G.A. and Jaume, D. 2000. Discoveries of cave Misophrioids (Crustacea: Copepoda) shed new light on the origin of anchialine faunas. Zoologischer Anzeiger 239:1-19.

• Brandt, A. (2001) Acanthaspidia namibia sp. nov. from the deep Angola basin. Beaufortia 51(5): 91-101.

• D'Antonio, C. and Kark, S. 2002. Impacts and extent of biotic invasions in terrestrial ecosystems. Trends in Ecology and Evolution17(5): 202-204.

• DIWPA Newsletter

• Fosshagen, A., Boxshall, G.A. & Iliffe, T.M. (2001). The Epacteriscidae, a cave-living family of calanoid copepods. Sarsia 86(4).

• Grassle, J.F. (2000) The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS): an on-line, worldwide atlas for accessing, modeling and mapping marine biological data in a multidimensional geographic context. Oceanography. 13:3:5-7.

• Grassle, J., and K. Stocks. 1999. A Global Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) for the Census of Marine Life. Oceanography. 12(13): 12-14.

• Gu, L. Baldocchi, D.D., Verma, S.B., Black, T.A., Vesala, T., Falge, E.M., Dowty, P.R. 2002. Superiority of diffuse radiation for terrestrial ecosystem productivity. Journal of Geophysical Research107.

• Gutu, M. and T.M. Iliffe. 2001. Grallatotanais antipai, a new genus and species of the family Leptocheliidae Lang, 1963 from a marine cave in the Bahamas (Crustacea: Tanaidacea, Tanaidomorpha). Travaux du Museum National d’Histoire naturelle Grigore Antipa, 43:93-100.

• Ibisch, P.L., C. Nowicki, R. Müller & N. Araujo (2002): Methods for the assessment of habitat and species conservation status in data-poor countries - case study of the Pleurothallidinae (Orchidaceae) of the Andean rain forests of Bolivia. In: Bussmann, R.W. & S. Lange (eds.): Proceedings of the first international congress "Conservation of Biodiversity in the Andes and the Amazon Basin", 24.-28.09.2001, Cusco, Peru. 225-246.

• Iliffe, T.M. 2001. Niue. pp. 2199-2201 in: Encyclopaedia Biospeologica, Vol. 3, C. Juberthie and V. Decu, eds., Societie internationale de Biospeologie, Moulis, France.

• Iliffe, T.M. and C. Bowen 2001. Scientific cave diving. Marine Technology Society Journal, 35(2):36-41.

• Iliffe, T.M. and C. Juberthie. 2001. Kingdom of Tonga. pp. 2191-2194 in: Encyclopaedia Biospeologica, Vol. 3, C. Juberthie and V. Decu, eds., Societie internationale de Biospeologie, Moulis, France.

• Iliffe, T.M., C. Juberthie, P. Strinatie and S. Sarbu. 2001. Western Samoa (Iles Samoa Occidenatles). pp. 2219-2224 in: Encyclopedia Biospeologica, Vol. 3, C. Juberthie and V. Decu, eds., Societe internationale de Biospeologie, Moulis, France.

• Iliffe, T.M. 2001. CaveBiology.com - the anchialine cave biodiversity website. Mapping Subterranean Biodiversity, Karst Waters Institute Special Publication 6:22-23.

• Jaume, D., Boxshall, G.A. and Humphreys, W.F. 2001. New stygobiont copepods (Calanoida; Misophrioida) from Bundera sinkhole, an danchialine cenote on north-western Australia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 133: 1-24.

• Jaume, D, Cartes, J.E. & Boxshall, G.A. 2000 Shallow-water and not deep-sea as most plausible origin for cave-dwelling Paramisophria species (Copepoda: Calanoida: Arietellidae), with description of three new species from Mediterranean bathyal hyperbenthos and littoral caves. Contrib. Zool. 68(4): 205-244.

• Jaume, D., A. Fosshagen & T.M. Iliffe 1999 New cave-dwelling pseudocyclopiids (Copepoda: Calanoida: Pseudocyclopiidae) from the Balearic, Canary and Philippine archipelagos. Sarsia, 84: 391-417.

• Jaume, D. & Humphreys, W.B. 2001 A new genus of epacteriscid calanoid copepod from an anchialine sinkhole on Northwestern Australia. Journal of Crustacean Biology 21: 157-169.

• Kornicker, L.S., T.M. Iliffe and E. Harrison – Nelson. 2002. Ostracoda (Myodocopa) from Bahamian Blue Holes. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 616: 1-99.

• Malakoff, D. 2000. Grants kick off ambitious count of all ocean life. Science. 288: 1575-1576.

• Malytina, M.V., Waegele, J.W., Brenke, N. (2001). New reords of little known deep-sea Echinothambematidae (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellota) with redescription of Vemathambema elongata Menzies, 1961 and description of a new species from the Argentina Basin. Org. Divers. Evol. 1: 321-322.

• Medina-Gonzalez, R., G.S. Proudlove, L. Chumba-Segura and T.M. Iliffe. 2001. Threatened fishes of the world: Ophisternon infernale (Hubbs, 1938). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 62: 214.

• Morin, P. A. 2000. Preservation of DNA from endangered species - Letter. Science 289: 725-726.

• Padulosi, S., Hodgkin, T. Williams, J.T. and Haq, N. 2002. Underutilized crops: trends, challenges an dopportunities in the 21st Century. In: Managing plant genetic resources. J.M.M. Engels et al. Eds. pg. 323-338. CABI-IPGRI.

• Pesce, G.L. and T.M. Iliffe. 2002. New records of cave-dwelling mysids from the Bahamas and Mexico with description of Palaumysis bahamensis n. sp. (Crustacea: Mysidacea). Journal of Natural History. 36(3): 265-278.

• Poinar, H. N., and G. Eglinton. 2000. Preservation of DNA from endangered species - Letter. Science 289: 726.

• Proudlove, G.S., R. Medina-Gonzalez, L. Chumba-Segura and T.M. Iliffe. 2001. Threatened fishes of the world: Ogilbia pearsei (Hubbs, 1938). Environmental Biology of Fishes, 62:214.

• Riede, K. (2001): The Global Register of Migratory Species - Database, GIS Maps and Threat Analysis. Münster (Landwirtschaftsverlag), 320 pp. + CD.

• Riede, K. (Ed.) (2001): New Perspectives for Monitoring Migratory Animals - Improving Knowledge for Conservation. Proceedings of an International Workshop on behalf of the 20th Anniversary of the Bonn Convention. Münster (Landwirtschaftsverlag), 166 p.

• Reid, W. V. 2000. Ecosystem data to guide hard choices. Issues in Science and Technology 16: 37-44.

• Rocha, C.E.F., T.M. Iliffe, J.W. Reid, E. Su‡rez-Morales 2000. Prehendocyclops, a new genus of the subfamily Halicyclopinae (Copepoda, Cyclopoida, Cyclopidae) from cenotes of the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Sarsia, 85:119-140.

• Ryder, O. A., A. McLaren, S. Brenner, Y. P. Zhang, and K. Benirschke. 2000. Ecology - DNA banks for endangered animal species. Science 288: 275,277.

• Ryder, O. A., A. McLaren, Y. P. Zhang, S. Brenner, and K. Benirschke. 2000. Preservation of DNA from endangered species - Response. Science 289: 726-727.

• Schmid, C. Brenke, N., Waegele, J.W. (in press). On abyssal isopods (Crustacea: Isopods: Asellota) from the Angola Basin: Eurycope tumidicarpus n. sp. and redescription of Acanthocope galathea Wolff, 1962. Org. Divers. Evol. 2.

• US MAB BRIM Bulletin

• Van Dover, C.L., C. R. German, K. G. Speer, L. M. Parson, R. C. Vrjenhoek. (February 15, 2002) Evolution and Biogeography of Deep-Sea Vent and Seep Invertebrates. Science. 295(5558): 1253-1257.

• Van Dover, C.L. et al. (October 26, 2001) Biogeography and Ecological Setting of Indian Ocean Hydrothermal Vents. Science. 294(5543):818-823.

• Van Dover, C.L. (September 6, 2001) To boldly go where no plant has yet been found. Nature: correspondence. 413(16).

Books

• Czech, B., P. R. Krausman. The Endangered Species Act: History, Conservation Biology, and Public Policy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.

• Harris, S. Buchanan, A., and Connolly, A. (2001). One Hundred Islands: The Flora of the Outer Furneaux. Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment.

• Nakashizuka, T. and Stork, N. (2002). Biodiversity Research Methods: IBOY in Western Pacific and Asia. Trans Pacific Press.

• Riede, K. 2001. The Global Register of Migratory Species – Database, GIS Maps and Threat Analysis. Münster (Landwirtschaftsverlag), 320 pp. + CD.