Plant Ecology Related Web Links
Here are some links that we came across while gathering material for biology 474. If you know of any sites that may be helpful to other Plant Ecology students, let us know and we will add them.
Bryophytes
- Bryophytes
- Information about the Fossombroniineae, maintained by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Department of Plant Biology. Produced as part of the NSF Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy (PEET) program.
Lichens
- Lichen Land
- Oregon State University lichen database. Lots of information about lichens.
- Lichens of North America
- Web site that accompanies the book "Lichens of North America". Many very good photos.
General
- Biodiversity Web Server
- University of New Orleans project devoted to information about systematics and biological collections, including information on Families of Flowering Plants.
- Borealforest.org
- All kinds of information about the boreal forest, including the life forms that inhabit them. Maintained by the Faculty of Forestry and the Forest Environment, Lakehead University, Ontario.
- Botanical Society of America
- Links page point to a variety of resources.
- Tree of Life Web Project
- Taxonomy and characteristics of life forms present on the earth.
- Utah State Grass Manual
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Databases
- ActKey
- Web based key to plants.
- Digital Flowers
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign plant systematics information.
- Evergreen Native Plant Database
- Database of plants native to Canada.
- New York Botanical Gardens
- The fourth largest herbarium in the world maintains a Virtual Herbarium containing over 100,000 images of herbarium specimens online. The collection includes type specimens, non-vascular plants, fungi and lichens.
- USDA PLANTS website
- The USDA National Plants Database provides information about plants of the United Stated. Includes photo galleries, taxonomy and lots of other information.
Last Updated: 27-Jan-2006
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