Knowledge: taxonomy
See Also:
- science → biology → flora and fauna
- science → biology → genetics
- science → environment → biodiversity
Links
- Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow
http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/ - About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.
- Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium
http://www.virtualherbarium.org - 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.
- BioNET - International
http://www.bionet-intl.org - 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.
- NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html - The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
- American Society of Plant Taxonomists
http://www.sysbot.org/ - Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
- Science at the Natural History Museum
http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/ - A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
- Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification
http://www.eti.uva.nl/ - ETI is a non-governmental organisation in operational relations with UNESCO. Their mission is to develop scientific/educational computer-aided information systems, to improve general access to, and to promote use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge worldwide.
- Scalenet - Glossary
http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/glossary.htm - A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.
- ETI World Taxonomist Database
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html - Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
- Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics
http://www.bechly.de/glossary.htm - An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
- Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases
http://www.biocollections.org/ - 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.
- Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html - Etymologies, puns and funny sounds and wordplay in taxonomy.
- Systema Naturae 2000
http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/ - An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.
- Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer
http://www.ubio.org - A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
- DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy
http://delta-intkey.com/ - 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.
- Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy
http://web.nhm.ku.edu/peet/ - National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms.
- Tree of Life
http://tolweb.org/tree/ - 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.
- Treebase
http://treebase.peabody.yale.edu/treebase/ - A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi.
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System
http://www.itis.gov/ - Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
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