This BioBulletin Web site takes an in-depth look at butterfly farms. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists.
This expedition guide was written as a self-directed tour for the temporary biodiversity exhibit that preceded the museum's Hall of Biodiversity. The site continues to serve as a terrific resource for understanding biodiversity.
This BioBulletin Web site takes an in-depth look at an AMNH expedition to study a patch of African rain forest. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists. The Introduction has an overview of the Dzanga Sangha expedition, during which museum scientists recorded about 30 species new to the area. Why this Rain Forest? explains why museum scientists were drawn to this protected, intact rain forest in the Congo River Basin.
This biodiversity Web site for kids, part of the museum's Kids in Our Halls program, was produced by high school interns at the Museum. In includes these sections: What Do You Think About Extinction?, an interview with kids visiting the Hall of Biodiversity; Did You Know?, a collection of fun facts that includes challenges to be solved; a five-question interactive biodiversity quiz; a Q&A interview with the head of the museum's Ichthyology Department; brief articles about the origins of chocolate and the ecological importance of coral reefs; a downloadable poster to color.
This BioBulletin Web site examines the balance between microbes and humans, and how the scale tips when habitats are damaged. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists. The Introduction takes a quick look at the ways Earth's complex web of life protects humans from pests, pathogens, and parasites. Biodiversity and Human Health discusses how biodiversity is the first and most fundamental defense against infectious agents. Ecosystem Change and Diseases examines the dangerous way in which the equilibrium between predator and prey can shift when habitats are damaged. Human Disturbance explains how our relationship with nature has caused many of the problems we are now facing with infections diseases. Reducing Risks explains 10 global initiatives needed to reduce the spread of infectious disease.
This BioBulletin Web site takes an in-depth look at the work involved in reintroducing and introducing species. The site includes text, videos, photographs, and interviews with key scientists. What Is Being Moved and Why? outlines the three motives for relocating members of a species for release into the wild.
