Editing Encyclopedia:WikiProject Ecoregions (section)

== Useful resources ==
===Text and content===
* [http://www.eoearth.org/article/Ecoregion?topic=49597 The Encyclopedia of Earth] contains articles for many ecoregions, the text of which is available under a [[Creative Commons]] Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic license. This license is compatible with Wikipedia's and the text can be re-used here.

===Maps===
* The Wikimedia Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_ecoregions Maps of ecoregions] category contains hundreds of ecoregion maps that can be used in ecoregion articles.
* [http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/487008/an/0/page/6 Google Earth layers for the WWF ecoregions]
* [http://gis.wwfus.org/wildfinder/ Interactive WWF ecoregions map from the WWF]
* [http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/terrestrial.html Interactive WWF ecoregions map from National Geographic]
* [http://www.epa.gov/wed/pages/ecoregions.htm EPA ecoregions]

===Databases===
* [http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/data/item1872.html WWF Databases] include terrestrial and marine ecoregions, as well as thousands of species distributions in terms of ecoregions.
* [http://toolserver.org/~tim1357/cgi-bin/wikiproject_watchlist.py?template=WikiProject+Ecoregions Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Ecoregions]

=== Soils ===
We should use the [[World Reference Base for Soil Resources]] (WRB) ([http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/default.stm External link]), as it is a worldwide [[soil classification]] system, widely accepted and translated in many languages. As of 2006, it is the pre-eminent soil classification system, replacing the previous [[FAO soil classification]].<br>
*Issue 1 : the main map is "fair use" : could we ask for it, might we just put a link to it ?<br>
*Issue 2 : the main map is not precise enough to easily find references of soil types for each ecoregion. Are there other, more precise maps? See:<br>
**http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/wrbmaps/htm/soilres.htm
**http://www.fao.org/ag/agl/agll/wrb/mapindex.stm
**ftp://ftp.fao.org/agl/agll/wrb/wrbdom.gif
The WRB borrows from modern soil classification concepts, including [[USDA soil taxonomy]]. The classification is based mainly on [[soil morphology]] as an expression [[pedogenesis]]. A major difference with USDA soil taxonomy is that soil-related climate regimes, such as xeric, ustic, and udic, are not part of the system, except insofar as climate influences soil profile characteristics (see '''[[#Climate|climate guide-lines]]''').

===Useful citations===
'''Ecoregion ranges'''. When claiming that a country, state, landform, or protected area is in a WWF ecoregion, you can copy-paste the following citation to the original paper:

<code><nowiki>
{{cite journal
  |author = Olson, D. M, E. Dinerstein
  |title = Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth
  |journal = [[BioScience]]
  |year = 2001
  |volume=51
  |issue=11
  |pages= 933–938
  |url = http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/wildfinder/
  |doi = 10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2
|display-authors=etal}}
</nowiki></code>

It will appear as follows:

{{cite journal
  |author = Olson, D. M, E. Dinerstein
  |title = Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World: A New Map of Life on Earth
  |journal = [[BioScience]]
  |year = 2001
  |volume=51
  |issue=11
  |pages= 933–938
  |url = http://www.worldwildlife.org/science/wildfinder/
  |doi = 10.1641/0006-3568(2001)051[0933:TEOTWA]2.0.CO;2
|display-authors=etal}}

'''Ecoregion statistics'''. The [http://www.nature.org/multimedia/maps/ Atlas of Global Conservation] from [[The Nature Conservancy]] has various statistics for all the WWF ecoregions, valid {{As of|2010|lc=on}}. These include numbers of bird, mammal, and threatened species, percent habitat loss, and percent area formally protected. Just copy-paste the following if you use their stats:

<code><nowiki>
{{cite book
  |last1 = Hoekstra
  |first1 = J. M.
  |last2 = Molnar
  |first2 = J. L.
  |last3 = Jennings
  |first3 = M.
  |last4 = Revenga
  |first4 = C.
  |last5 = Spalding
  |first5 = M. D.
  |last6 = Boucher
  |first6 = T. M.
  |last7 = Robertson
  |first7 = J. C.
  |last8 = Heibel
  |first8 = T. J.
  |last9 = Ellison
  |first9 = K.
  |title = The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference
  |publisher = [[University of California Press]]
  |editor1-last = Molnar
  |editor1-first = J. L.
  |year = 2010
  |isbn = 978-0520262560
  |url = http://www.nature.org/ourscience/sciencefeatures/conservation-atlas-1.xml

  }}</nowiki></code>

It will appear like this:

{{cite book
  |last1 = Hoekstra
  |first1 = J. M.
  |last2 = Molnar
  |first2 = J. L.
  |last3 = Jennings
  |first3 = M.
  |last4 = Revenga
  |first4 = C.
  |last5 = Spalding
  |first5 = M. D.
  |last6 = Boucher
  |first6 = T. M.
  |last7 = Robertson
  |first7 = J. C.
  |last8 = Heibel
  |first8 = T. J.
  |last9 = Ellison
  |first9 = K.
  |title = The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference
  |publisher = [[University of California Press]]
  |editor1-last = Molnar
  |editor1-first = J. L.
  |year = 2010
  |isbn = 978-0520262560
  |url = http://www.nature.org/ourscience/sciencefeatures/conservation-atlas-1.xml

  }}

===Templates===
Add the '''{{tl|User WikiProject Ecoregions}}''' template your user page.

Add the '''{{tl|Infobox ecoregion}}''' template to all ecoregion articles and fill out as many fields as possible.

Add the '''{{tl|WikiProject Ecoregions}}''' template to the top of the '''talk''' page of any article which is in the scope of this project.