BUSINESS INFORMATION - Free "online" is intended to describe each animal and plant species

BUSINESS INFORMATION - Free "online" is intended to describe each animal and plant species on this planet has to find 170,000 entry and support research on age, climate change and even the spread of insect pests.

Encyclopedia of Life (with http://www.eol.org address), a project worth 100 million dollars and launched in 2007, the state, free it describes all 1.8 million known species ranging from apples to zebras in one decade, thus quoted from Xinhuanet-OANA.

He said everyone from scientists to school children can benefit from eol as a "field guide" or donate pictures or observations about the animals in an area where as yet undiscovered, in some cases the sign of a changing climate.

Free it helps scientists who examined the human age by examining the very different life from related species.

One Latin American bats live much longer than mice with families of similar size, probably because the body has mechanisms that limit damage to the protein in the cells. And some butterflies that eat the fruit live longer than related species.

Free the fighters tried to help insects like moths from the Balkans that has spread rapidly throughout Europe in the next two decades. They attack the leaves of trees "horse chestnut".

Moths are "now more common or less common throughout Europe and pose a threat to ecosystems in Southeast Asia, North America and elsewhere, wherever` horse chestnut tree ", a beautiful, growing", says David Lees from the Natural History Museum in London.

One problem for many biologists is that they often examine only one species that do not know whether their findings can be applied more widely, said James Hanken, director of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, and leader of the Implementing Committee eol.

Among other projects, it aims to develop free of fossil species and are working on several regional versions centered on life in China, Australia or the Netherlands.

One problem is that 20,000 new species described each year and estimates of the number of species on this planet amounted to 100 million.