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BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide for UK Biodiversity
Large selection of pictures of organisms, mostly British in origin. Images are an aid to identification, showing different stages, states and views of the organisms. Search the database or follow a taxonomic tree.
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/
Aquatic Environments
This comprehensive web-site details the aquatic habitats, animals and plants of Canada. Explore National Parks, go bird-watching or find out which animals live in the water near you.
http://www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca/
HabitasOnline
Website of the Ulster Museum Sciences Division. Features resources on the province's botany, zoology and geology. Topics covered include ground beetles, butterflies and moths, dragonflies, marine life, wild and garden flora, and rocks and fossils. Also hosts the web sites of Belfast Naturalist's Field Club and the Irish Naturalists' Journal.
http://www.habitas.org.uk/
BiologyBase
Checklists, articles, and links for the world of life.
http://www.biologybase.com/
Lepidoptera and Other Life Forms
Taxonomic tree of mammals, insects, birds, and plants. Includes common and scientific names, publication details, references, links, general range maps, and some images. Most complete for Lepidoptera.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/intro...
Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
A compilation of various phylogenetic trees representing different views of taxonomy. Includes links to other taxonomic websites.
http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/...
BioLib
Systém druhů s vědeckými i národními názvy, fotografiemi a popisy druhů, checklisty Čech, Moravy a Slovenska, výkladový slovník biologických termínů, biologické odkazy.
http://www.biolib.cz/
Natural Selection
A gateway to quality, evaluated Internet resources in the natural world co-ordinated by The Natural History Museum, London.
http://nature.ac.uk/
World's Boreal Forests: Animal and Plant Species
Fact sheets and photos for mammals, birds, trees and other plants of boreal regions.
http://www.borealforest.org/world/world_sp...
Wikispecies
Wikimedia Foundation project that aims to catalog all species.
http://species.wikipedia.org/
Biodiversity Explorer
Classification of all forms of life, with some photos. Has a strong South African emphasis.
http://www.museums.org.za/bio
Kingdoms Project
Project to establish web-based databases of organisms and other natural sciences subjects. Includes information about some taxonomic groups.
http://www.il-st-acad-sci.org/kingdoms.htm...
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
http://www.itis.usda.gov/
World Biodiversity Database
A growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million). Taxonomic trees, descriptions, synonyms, literature citations, and molecular database queries.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Searchable database of four kingdoms: plant, animal, fungi, monera. Search by scientific or common names, English or French.
http://sis.agr.gc.ca/pls/itisca/taxaget?p_...
NCBI Taxonomy
Searchable and browsable taxonomy tree of organisms for which there are publicly available gene sequences.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxon...
Census of Marine Life
A global network of researchers engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the past, present, and future diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans.
http://www.coml.org/
Thomson: Free Resources
Includes the Index to Organism Names, a publicly available subset of TRITON the Taxonomy Resource, and the Zoological Record Thesaurus.
http://scientific.thomson.com/free/
Natural Perspective
Dedicated to the beauty and science of nature and to the joys nature brings to those who explore it. The material here is organized according to the biological principles of Taxonomy.
http://www.perspective.com/nature/index.ht...
Nature of New England
Links to species accounts and photos of birds, butterflies and mammals.
http://www.nenature.com/
Survey of the Plant Kingdoms
Explores plant anatomy, taxonomy, and classification, from Monera through the higher plants. Includes descriptions as well as graphics and schematics.
http://home.manhattan.edu/~frances.cardill...
ARKive
Presentation of animals and fungi that may become extinct in the wild, without help. Includes a photo gallery of those under threat.
http://www.arkive.org/
Tree of Life
A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
http://tolweb.org/tree/
Discover Life
Information about taxonomy, natural history, distribution, abundance, and ecology of many species worldwide. Includes tools to identify, map, and database species.
http://www.discoverlife.org/
Flora and Fauna of the Great Lakes
Provides access to materials from the fish, mammal, and fungus collections of the University of Michigan, USA. Includes many images of specimens.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/programs/greatlak...
iSpecies
A species search engine from Rod Page of Glasgow University. Search on either the common or Latin name of a species. Results are generated by querying other data sources.
http://darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/isp...
Utah Conservation Data Center
The central repository for Utah biodiversity information. Information on all vertebrate wildlife species, many invertebrates, and numerous plant species.
http://dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/ucdc/
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