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24 pages found in Taxonomy: American Society of Plant Taxonomists
Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.
http://www.sysbot.org/ 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/ Biomedical Ontology
About two dozen links collected by the Ontology Project at the philosophy department of State University of New York at Buffalo.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/biomedical.htm 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 Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
Etymologies, puns and funny sounds and wordplay in taxonomy.
http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html 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/ ETI World Taxonomist Database
Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.
http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html 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.
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 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.bernstein.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/odonata/glossary.htm Integrated Taxonomic Information System
Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
http://www.itis.gov/ Is it Time to Revise the System of Scientific Naming?
Article from National Geographic News arguing that the taxonomic classification system devised by Linnaeus is oudated by genetic research that shows that morphological similarities are not necessarily proof of evolutionary relatedness.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1204_hominin_id.html Learn Plants Now
Strategies and tips for learning how to identify plants in the field. Introduction to botanical terms, checklist for plant identification, recommended resources.
http://www.learnplantsnow.com/ NCBI Taxonomy Homepage
Provides a taxonomy browser, taxonomy resources and other information.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/ 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/ Pickett Lab: Taxonomy, Evolution and Behavior
Dr Kurt M. Pickett is leading research into the taxonomy of the Vespidae, the role of taxonomy in biology and various methodological and computational issues in phylogenetics.
http://www.socialwasps.com 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/glossary.htm Science at the Natural History Museum
A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.
http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/ Systema Naturae 2000
An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authoritative scientific literature.
http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/ Taxonomy
Information from Wikipedia on the practice and science of classification, the arrangement of organisms in a hierarchical structure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomy 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/ 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/ 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/ 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
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