Thomson Scientific (http://scientific.thomson.com), a division of Thomson Corporation (http://thomson.com), publishes a wide variety of information retrieval applications, including BIOSIS, Current Contents, Zoological Record, and numerous others. The ICE Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas (http://ice.ucdavis.edu/bioinventory/bioinventory.html) was recently indexed in Thomson Scientific's Current Web Contents, a collection of scholarly web sites that meets well defined criteria (http://scientific.thomson.com/free/essays/selectionofmaterial/cwc-criteria/).
The ICE Biological Inventories of the World's Protected Areas provide more than 492,000 documented, standardized species occurrence records of both plants and vertebrate animals from 1,415 protected areas in 133 countries and is the world's largest web-based repository of protected area species inventories. These inventory data are used by a wide variety of academic researchers, agency personnel, and conservation planners, as well as persons interested in the biota of sites that they intend to visit.
