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Global access to knowledge about life on Earth. Convergent Lady Beetle. Cliff Chipmunk. Ostrich fern. Decim Periodical Cicada. Greater Blue-ringed Octopus. Nostoc linckia. Diaptomus castaneti Burckhardt 1920. Christmas tree worm.
The Encyclopedia of Life ( EOL) is a free, online encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science. It aggregates content to form "page"s for every known species. Content is compiled from existing trusted databases which are curated by experts and it calls on the assistance of non-experts throughout the ...
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an international effort, led by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, to raise awareness and understanding of living nature by providing free, open, multilingual, digital access to trusted information on all known species.
What is EOL? Our knowledge of the many life-forms on Earth - of animals, plants, fungi, protists and bacteria - is scattered around the world in books, journals, databases, websites, specimen collections, and in the minds of people everywhere.
Encyclopedia of Earth. A plant is any one of the vast number of organisms within the biological kingdom Plantae; in general, these species are considered of limited motility and generally manufacture their own food. They include a host of familiar organisms including trees, forbs, shrubs, grasses, vines, ferns, and mosses.
Currently, EOL hosts 21,289,852 trait and attribute records, including 2,511,024 ecological interaction records. There is at least some trait data available for substantially all species and higher taxa in EOL. We have learned that integrating this information into EOL in a structured way can make biodiversity much easier to discover.
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an international effort, led by the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, to raise awareness and understanding of living nature by providing free, open, multilingual, digital access to trusted information on all known species.
