Biological collections and databases represent a permanent record of our natural heritage, and thus contain the materials that support the research of most scientific disciplines including those working to preserve biodiversity and monitor global change.

• List of institutions holding biological collections in Switzerland
  • Natural History Museums in Switzerland
  • Botanic gardens
  • Zoos

see also MeDaCollect (in German and French) the Meta-database on biological collections in Switzerland

 

• Flora and Fauna Databases
  

• CRSF/ZDSF the centre of floristic data in Switzerland
• CSCF the centre of faunistic data in Switzerland
• Swiss Lichens the Swiss database on lichens
• Catalogue des lichens de Suisse
• Catalogue des herbiers de Genève
• Catalogue des types d'Hedwig
• Schweizerische Vogelwarte Sempach database of the birds of Switzerland
• NISM the inventory of the Swiss mosses, divided into natural regions
• Swiss Fungi the Swiss database on Fungi
• BioCASE Biological Collection Access Service for Europe
• GBIF Global biodiversity Information Facility
• ENBI European Network on Biodiversity Information
• Fauna Europaea Database of scientific names and distribution of all living multicellular European land and fresh-water animals
• Species 2000 index of names of all known species
• ToL Tree of Life information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics
• Alliance for zero extinction

• Agrobiodiversity
  • PGRNA, the national database for the preservation and sustainable use of plant genetic resources for nutrition and agriculture.

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