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Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases
Information of interest to systematists and other organismic biologists such as biological collections, taxonomic files, directories and ListServ archives, computer programs, reports by standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, and SA2000), and access to on-line journals.
http://www.biocollections.org/
Biognomen
A Linnaean taxonomy arranged in hyperlinked evolutionary trees. One can navigate through the hierarchy vertically, or follow a lineage horizontally at a particular level of the hierarchy.
http://webpages.charter.net/teefile/biogno...
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/
BioNET - International
A global network of country-owned collaborative LOOPs to support national programs for biosystematics to support goals in areas such as sustainable development and pest management.
http://www.bionet-intl.org
NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxo...
Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow
About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/
Science at the Natural History Museum
A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/sci...
Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification
Aims to develop scientific and educational computer aided information systems, to improve the general access to, and to promote the broad use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge worldwide.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/
Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium
Includes photos of more than 50,000 plant, palm, cycad and other cultivated tropical plants from Florida and taxonomic information on grasses, especially bamboos, and other economically important and interesting plants.
http://www.virtualherbarium.org
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer
A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
http://www.ubio.org
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
http://www.sysbot.org/
Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
http://www.itis.usda.gov/
ETI World Taxonomist Database
Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html
Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms.
http://web.nhm.ku.edu/peet/
Scalenet - Glossary
A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/glos...
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
Etymologies, puns and funny sounds, wordplay, and more in taxonomy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy...
Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics
An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
http://www.bechly.de/glossary.htm
Systema Naturae 2000
An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.
http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/
Treebase
A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi.
http://treebase.peabody.yale.edu/treebase/
DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy
A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems.
http://delta-intkey.com/
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