Biodiversity

AntWeb Documents the World of Ants



Every ant has a story to tell. And what better person to tell it than Brian Fisher? Fisher is an entomologist at the California Academy of Sciences and Project Manager of AntWeb.org. The internet portal illustrates the diversity of ants by providing information and high quality color images of many of the approximately 10,000 known species of ants.



Stereo Microscopy

Jun 19, 2012

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One of Our Last Horizons



An insight into the unknown world of the deep sea was given in an exhibition staged by the Senckenberg Society together with the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. Shown in Frankfurt am Main and Berlin, Germany, the "Deep Sea" exhibition was a huge public success in 2009. From May to September 2010, the exhibition has been shown in the Natural History Museum in London. Scientists of the Senckenberg Society work with stereomicroscopes and digital cameras both in the laboratory and on the research ships.



Stereo Microscopy

Apr 23, 2011

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In the Footsteps of Linnaeus – Microscopic Imaging in Marine Biodiversity Research



For the study of minute marine organisms such as free swimming larvae or bottom dwelling invertebrates it is a great advantage to have modern microscopic equipment in close proximity to the natural habitat. This allows the acquisition of images from organisms under virtually natural conditions.



Stereo Microscopy

Nov 02, 2007

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