APPENDIX 5: LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS
AHRC Arts and Humanities Research Council
BHL Biodiversity Heritage Library
BBSRC Biotechnology and Biological Science Research
Council
BSBI Botanical Society of the British Isles
CABI CAB International
CATE Creating a Taxonomic E-science
CBD Convention on Biological Diversity
CEFAS Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Agriculture
Science
CITES Convention on Trade in Endangered Species
CoSyst Collaborative Scheme for Systematic Research
CSL Central Science Laboratory
DCMS Department for Culture, Media and Sport
Defra Department for the Environment, Food
and Rural Affairs
DFID Department for International Development
DIUS Department for Innovation, Universities
and Skills
EDIT European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
GBIF Global Biodiversity Information Facility
GBSC Global Biodiversity Sub-Committee
HEFCE Higher Education Funding Council for England
JNCC Joint Nature Conservation Committee
NERC Natural Environment Research Council
NBN National Biodiversity Network
NHM Natural History Museum
OSPAR Convention on the Protection of the Marine
Environment of the North-East Atlantic
PDC Plant Diversity Challenge
RAE Research Assessment Exercise
RBG Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Edinburgh
RBG Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
RCUK Research Councils UK
RHS Royal Horticultural Society
RSPB Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds
UK BRAG UK Biodiversity Research Advisory Group
UK GECC UK Global Environmental Change Committee
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