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UC Santa Cruz departments and programs with tropical interests
UCSC Department of Anthropology
UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
UCSC Department of Environmental Studies
UCSC Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS)
UCSC Department of History of Consciousness
UCSC Department of Sociology
UCSC Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (CGIRS)
UCSC Center for Agroecology
UCSC Agro-Food Studies Research Group
UCSC Center for Island Conservation Studies

University of California programs in the tropics
UC-MEXUS

Tropical research and education institutes and consortia
Instituto de Ecología (UNAM)
Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad Costa Rica
Organization for Tropical Studies
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Professional Societies
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC)

Tropical conservation organizations
The African Conservation Foundation
Center for the Support of Native Lands
Conservation International
The Nature Conservancy

Databases and educational resources of tropical interest
Action Bioscience (American Institute of Biological Sciences educational resource)
Diccionario de la Biodiversidad
Lanic (Latin American Network Information Center) University of Texas
STRI Tropical Bioinformatics site
Canopy biology web page