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Useful online tools
GATEWAYS
Phylodiversity: http://www.phylodiversity.net
Internet Directory for Botany: http://www.botany.net/IDB/
Kew ePIC http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/epic/index.htm
CIPRES (Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research): http://www.phylo.org/
Global biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) http://www.gbif.org/
Morphobank http://morphobank.com/ & Morphbank http://morphbank2.csit.fsu.edu/
Seek ecoinformatics: http://seek.ecoinformatics.org/
FLORA
Australia: http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/online-resources/flora/
Australia ’s Virtual Herbarium http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/avh/
Plantnet (Sydney Bot Gardens): http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/
Efloras.org (China, North America, Missouri, Pakistan, Andes): http://www.efloras.org/
Mobot Databases: http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/alldb.shtml
North America:
http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/
China:
http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/
African Plants Initiative (Aluka): www.ithaka.org/aluka
Kew Flora Zambesiaca: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/efloras/
Field Museum Tropical Plant Guide: http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/
California (Jepson): http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/jepson_flora_project.html
TAXON LISTS
International Plant Name Index http://www.ipni.org/
( - database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants, ferns and fern allies. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names.
- Search for individual species names.
- Searches several sub-databases (APNI, Gray index and IK))
Kew Database Index http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/index.html
(Genera list http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/genlist.html
- electronic plant information centre
(search Kew bilbliographies, floras) http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/epic
- Checklist of Monocotyledons http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/monocotChecklist/default.jsp
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W3 Tropicos http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html
(- Missouri Botanical Garden 's VAST (VAScular Tropicos) nomenclatural database and associated authority files
- Search for individual records)
NYBG Intl Plant Science Centre: http://www.nybg.org/bsci/
Phylodiversity Network http://www.phylodiversity.net/
Salvias http://salvias.net/pages/index.html
Andean Botanical Information System: http://www.sacha.org
African PlantChecklist and Database project www.sanbi.org/frames/infofram.htm
Australian Plant Name Index http://www.anbg.gov.au/cgi-bin/apni,
USDA PLANTS Database http://plants.usda.gov/
Index Nominum Genericorum (Smithsonian) http://ravenel.si.edu/botany/ing//ingForm.cfm
TAXON SCRUBBERS
SALVIAS: http://www.salvias.net/pages/taxonscrubber.html
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Database for checking large numbers of taxon names against TROPICOS database
Requires MS Access 2000 or later(PC).
APG: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/
Phylocom: http://phylodiversity.net/phylocom
PHYLOGENIES
Phylomatic http://www.phylodiversity.net/phylomatic/phylomatic.html
Angiosperm Phylogeny http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/
Tree of Life http://tolweb.org/tree/phylogeny.html
PHYLOGENY TOOLS
Mesquite: http://mesquiteproject.org
Phylocom: http://phylodiversity.net/phylocom
TRAIT DATABASES
GLOPNET leaf database: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v428/n6985/suppinfo/nature02403.html
Kew seed information database: http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/sid/
Inside Wood http://insidewood.lib.ncsu.edu/search/
Leaf images from Royer et al. (2005) paper http://dew.essc.psu.edu/royerwilf/
US Forest Service Fire Effects Information System http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/index.html
SPECIES DISTRIBUTION DATA
Fit distribution models http://www.specifysoftware.org/Informatics/
Online map creation http://www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/omc_intro.html
Europe: http://ww.fmnh.helsinki.fi/english/botany/afe
USGS Climate-Vegetation Atlas for North America: http://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/p1650-a/
SITE DETAILS
World Register of Field Centres http://www.rgs.org/templ.php?page=5expewor
The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network: http://www.lternet.edu/
Fluxnet: http://daac.ornl.gov/FLUXNET/
Vegbank: http://vegbank.org/
CLIMATE & SITE DESCRIPORS
Australian Natural Resources Atlas: http://audit.ea.gov.au/anra/atlas_home.cfm
NOAA climate data http://cdo.ncdc.noaa.gov/CDO/cdo
Landsat: http://landsat.org/
WhyWhere http://biodi.sdsc.edu
PALAEO
Chronos http://www.chronos.org/
Deep-Time Project http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu./deeptime/
Paleobiology Database: http://www.paleodb.org & http://flatpebble.nceas.ucsb.edu/cgi-bin/bridge.pl
Paleogeographic Atlas Project http://pgap.uchicago.edu/
International Commission on Stratigraphy http://www.stratigraphy.org/
NOAA Paleoclimatology http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/index.html
Cleared Leaf Images, University of California Museum of Paleontology http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/collections/plants/clearedleaf.html
University of Kansas Bibliography: http://paleobotany.bio.ku.edu/BiblioOfPaleo.htm
DATA TOOLS
Graph Builider http://aadc-maps.aad.gov.au/analysis/gb.cfm
GENOMIC
Phylogenomic approaches
VICOGENTA: calculates best match to nearest Arabidopsis genes
http://orthologid.amnh.org
http://www.nypgenomics.org
IMAGES
Morphbank http://morphbank.csit.fsu.edu/
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