Yellowstone Bioprospecting Online Resources
- Park Issues: Bioprospecting and Benefits Sharing (more info) : This website contains chapter nine of the "Yellowstone Resources and Issues Handbook 2004" entitled "Park Issues." The document focuses on a variety of issues in Yellowstone National Park including bioprospecting and benefits-sharing, bison management...(more info)
- Forecast: Hot and Humid ( This site may be offline. ) : This webiste is part of a larger series of ten websites focusing on organisms living in interesting and extreme habitats. This particular page contains an article discussing the discovery of thermophiles in Yellowstone National Park and their increasing importance in the research world...(more info)
- Benefits-Sharing Case Study- Yellowstone National Park and the Diversa Corporation (more info) : This case study gives an in depth overview of the Yellowstone National Park and Diversa Corporation "Cooperative Research and Development Agreements" (CRADA)...(more info)
- The Yellowstone Thermophiles Conservation Project ( This site may be offline. ) : This website is dedicated to a project developed by the Yellowstone Center for Resources, US National Park Service, and World Foundation for Environment and Development (WFED) for research and conservation of the Yellowstone National Park thermophile resources...(more info)
- Yellowstone Investigates Access and Property Rights to Genetic Resources ( This site may be offline. ) : This website contains a journal article written by Bob Lindstrom, published in "Park Science." The article is based on a scientific conference sponsored by the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service entitled "Global Genetic Resources-Access, Ownership, and Intellectual Property Rights"...(more info)
- Thermophiles (more info) : This official site of Yellowstone National Park contains information on thermophiles as a part of the "Nature in Yellowstone" home page. Specific topics covered include the history of thermophile research in Yellowstone National Park and future research plans including the "Yellowstone Thermophiles Conservation Project"...(more info)
- Microscopic Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park ( This site may be offline. ) : This site contains an article from Yellowstone Geographic focusing on Yellowstone National Park's thermophiles and their geothermal habitat. The article discusses the discovery of thermophiles in Yellowstone and the history of bioprospecting in Yellowstone as well as bioprospecting in other geothermal areas around the world...(more info)
Additional Resources
For additional resources about Bioprospecting and Microbial Life in Extreme Environments, search the Microbial Life collection.
Created by Heather Beal, Montana State University