GIS Papers Bojorquez-Tapia, L.A., Balvanera, P., and A.D. Cuaron. 1994. Environmental auditing: Biological inventories and computer databases: their role in environmental assessments. Environmental Management 18(5): 775-785. Fearnside, P.M. and J. Ferraz. 1994. A conservation gap analysis of Brazil's Amazonian vegetation. Conservation Biology 9(5): 1134-1147. Funk, V.A., Fernanda, Z., and N. Nasir. 1999. Testing the use of specimen data and GIS in biodiversity exploration and conservation decision making in Guyana. Biological Conservation 8: 727-759. Jones, P., Beebe, S., Tohme, J ., and N. Galwey. 1997. The use of geographical information systems in biodiversity exploration and conservation. Biodiversity and Conservation 6: 947-958. Kiester, A.R., Scott, J.M., Csuti, B., Noss, R.F., Butterfield, B. Sahr, K., and D. White. 1996. Conservation Prioritization Using Gap Data. Conservation Biology 10(5): 1332-1342. Kress, W.J., Heyer, P., Acevedo, P., Coddington, J., Cole, D., Erwin, T.L., Meggers, B.J., Pogue, M., Thorington, R.W., Vari, R.P., Weitzman, M.J., and S.H. Weitzman. 1998. Amazonian biodiversity: assessing conservation priorities with taxonomic data. Biodiversity and Conservation 7: 1577-1587. Lechmere-Oertel, R.G., and R.M. Cowling. 1999. Predicting the distribution of fynbos and succulent karoo biome boundaries and plant communities using generalised linerar models and geographic information systems. South African Journal of Botany 65(1): 89-96. Prasad, S.N., Vijayan, L., Balachandran, S., Ramachandran, V.S., and C.P.A. Verghese. 1998. Conservation planning for the Western Ghats of Kerala: A GIS approach for location of biodiversity hot spots. Current Science 75(3): 211-219. Rhoads, A.F., and L. Thompson. 1992. Integrating herbarium data into a geographic information system: requirements for spatial analysis. Taxon 41: 43-49. Sanchez-Cordero, V. and E. Martinez-Meyer. 2000. Museum specimen data predict crop damage by tropical rodents. PNAS 97 (13): 7074-7077. Shultz, L.M. 2000. Using geographical information systems in floristic studies. SIDA, Bot. Misc. 18: 73-81. Soveron, J., Llorente, J., and H. Benitez. 1996. An international view of national biological surveys. 0. 83: 562-573. Skov, F. & F. Borchsenius. 1997. Predicting plant species distribution patterns using simple climatic parameters: a case study of Ecuadorian palms. Ecography 20:347-355. Skov, F. & F. Borchsenius. 1999. Conservation status of palms (Arecaceae) in ecuador. Acta Bot. Venez. 22(1): 221-236. Skov, F. 2000. Potential plant distribution mapping based on climate similarity. Taxon 49:503-515. Ved, D.K., Barve, V., Noorunnisa Begum, S., and R. Latha. 1998. Eco-distribution mapping of the priority medicinal plants of southern India. Current Science 75(3): 205-208. Books Fotheringham, S. and Rogerson, P. 1995. Spatial Analysis and GIS. Taylor & Francis. Goodchiled, M.F., et al. 1996. GIS and Environmental Modelling: Progress and Research Issues. GIS World Books. Mitchell, A. 1999. The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis: Vol. 1: Geographic Patterns & Relationships. Environmental Systems Research Institute. (Available in GIS lab). ESRI Virtual Campus - Library ESRI's website has a great bibliography section that allows the user to search for papers that deal with GIS projects. Most of these papers have been presented at the User Conferences or at other Conferences and not always published in scientific journals. Searches are done using keywords, authors, journals, etc. Examples of subjects tested are: conservation, climate, herbarium, biodiversity, biogeography. Bioinformatics Science, 29 September 2000. Vol. 289(5488). Special Issue: Bioinformatics for Biodiversity The above link contains all of the links discussed in the articles. This issue takes a look at the emerging science of "biodiversity informatics" -- the efforts under way to make the vast, decentralized resources of global biodiversity information available in digital form, and the enormous challenge of imposing consistency and compatibility among the scores of searchable databases on the world's biota. Included articles are: "Diversity Digitized," "Taxonomic Revival," "The Quiet Revolution: Biodiversity Informatics and the Internet," and "Interoperability of Biodiversity Databases: Biodiversity Information on Every Desktop." top