BOTANY AND THE INTERNET:

USEFUL WORLD WIDE WEB SERVERS

(UPDATED August 1999)

The following list of WWW servers are related to plant biology and are available through the INTERNET . This list is only a beginning. If you locate other servers particularly useful to our Plant Systematics course, please let me know <abrahmsn@bucknell.edu>. Thanks.

 

The Tree of Life Home Page (very worthwhile)  http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
Deep Green - Green Plant Phylogeny Research Coordination Group to understand the diversity of plants (very controversial) http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/bryolab/greenplantpage.html
Index Herbariorum - a searchable database of address, staff, and correspondent information for herbaria of the world http://www.nybg.org/bsci/ih/index.html
New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Specimen Catalog - a searchable herbarium specimen catalog   http://www.nybg.org/bsci/hcol/
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Plants Database - provides state distributions, synonyms, origins, and more; very useful  http://plants.usda.gov/plants/
Pennsylvania Flora Project, a searchable subset of which is online  http://www.upenn.edu/paflora/
Index Nominum Genericorum - ING, contains a compilation of generic names.  http://www.nmnh.si.edu/ing/
New York Botanical Garden  http://www.nybg.org/
Nearctica - The Natural World of North America
(very cool and useful)
 http://www.nearctica.com/
American Society of Plant Taxonomists, promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of plants  http://www.sysbot.org/
Land Plants Online
(showcases diversity, structure, and phylogeny among all green plants)
 http://www.science.siu.edu/landplants/index.html
TreeBASE (phylogeny)  http://phylogeny.harvard.edu/treebase
Longwood Gardens
Field trip destination
 http://www.longwoodgardens.com/
Swedish Museum of Natural History  http://www.nrm.se/
Fairchild Tropical Garden - virtual herbarium includes scanned material from >6000 herbarium specimens  http://www.ftg.fiu.edu
Clayton Herbarium - dates from 1730s and collected in Virginia. Many Linnaean types.  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/clayton/index.html
Species 2000, Indexing the world's known species  http://www.species2000.org/
University of Toronto Botany Server  http://www.botany.utoronto.ca/
  Vatican Exhibit - Herbals

 http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.

exhibit/exhibit/g-nature/Botany.html

 Conservation Ecology - The Journal  http://journal.biology.carleton.ca
 Australian Environmental Resources Information  http://www.erin.gov.au/
 Australian National Botanic Gardens  http://155.187.10.12/anbg.html
 Biodiversity and Biological Collections WWWs  http://muse.bio.cornell.edu/
 Botany Department (University of Georgia)  http://dogwood.botany.uga.edu:80/
 British Trees  http://www.u-net.com/trees/
 California Academy of Sciences WWW Server  http://www.calacademy.org/
 California State University Stanislaus Botany 3700 Home Page  http://130.17.2.215/
 Connecticut College Herbarium  http://herbarium.conncoll.edu/
 Detailed Family Descriptions   http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/.
 Field Museum of Natural History  http://www.fmnh.org/
 Kids Web - A World Wide Web Digital Library  http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/
 McMaster University Department of Biology  http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Biology/Dept.html
 The Natural History Museum (London)  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/
 Natural History Museum (Switzerland)  http://www-nmbe.unibe.ch/
 New Mexico Museum of Natural History  http://www.aps.edu/HTMLPages/NMMNH.html
 Plant Genome Server  http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/plant/index.html
 The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew  http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/
 Ecological Society of America  http://www.sdsc.edu/~ESA/esa.htm
 Environmental Protection Agency  http://www.epa.gov/
 Welcome to the White House Web Server  http://www.whitehouse.gov
 United States Congress Web Server  http://thomas.loc.gov
 Biodiversity, Ecology, and the Environment  http://conbio.rice.edu/vl/
 The Missouri Botanical Garden  http://www.mobot.org
 The National Biological Service Inventory and Monitoring Section  http://www.im.nbs.gov
 GIS  http://info.er.usgs.gov/research/gis/title.html

 

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