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Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow
About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.
taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk
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.
www.virtualherbarium.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.
www.bionet-intl.org
The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
www.sysbot.org
Science at the Natural History Museum
A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk
Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification
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.
www.eti.uva.nl
A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.
www.sel.barc.usda.gov
Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
www.eti.uva.nl
Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics
An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.
www.bechly.de
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.
www.biocollections.org
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
Etymologies, puns and funny sounds and wordplay in taxonomy.
home.earthlink.net
An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature.
sn2000.taxonomy.nl
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer
A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.
www.ubio.org
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.
delta-intkey.com