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*See Also: Environmental Science Links
General Purpose Links
Biology
- Biotechnology
Graphics Gallery
- Classification
of Living Things - This site presents the basics of modern
taxonomy and also provides information concerning the history of
biological classification.
- ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing
- This site is primarily devoted to classic, foundational papers and
books on genetics.
- Major
Biomes of the World - This site provides information concerning
seven global biomes, giving an overview of the nature of each biome
with respect to its global setting; e.g. plants, soils, animals and
climate, and growth forms.
- National Biological Information
Infrastructure - This site is an electronic gateway to biological
data provided by a variety of organizations (federal and state
government agencies as well as universities, natural history museums,
private organizations and foreign governments).
- NatureServe: An Online
Encyclopedia of Life - This site provides information concerning
50,000+ plant and animal species. Entries for each organism provide
common name, scientific name, taxonomic hierarchy, distribution within
the United States and Canada with distribution maps, conservatiom
status, ecological community, location by state or province, or
combinations of these elements.
- Taxonomy
Lab
Botany
- Botanical Society of America
- Botanical Society
of America: Botany WWW Sites
- Botanical Society of America:
Online Image Collection - This site provides access to 800+ images
divided into 14 different collections: Plant Geography, Plant
Morphology, Phloem Development, Xylem Development, Floral Ontogeny,
Lichens, Economic Botany, Carnivorous Plants, Organography, Pollen,
Paleobotany, Plant Defense Mechanisms, Plant Anatomy, and Cellular
Communication Channels.
- Botany
301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants - This site promises to be a
continuing, current, valuable resource for users with its good source
of links to information about plant systematics and evolution.
- Flora of North America
- This site is an ongoing collaborative effort among hundreds of North
American botanists to provide up-to-date information on the 21,000+
plants growing outside of cultivation north of Mexico.
- Forest
Resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Austrailia, Japan and New
Zealand - This online United Nations report covers most forest
resources of 55 industrialized, temperate / boreal countries. The
coverage is extensive and includes areas of forest and other wooded
land, ownership and management status, wood supply and carbon
sequestration, biological diversity and environmental protection,
forest condition and damage, and protective and socioeconomic
functions.
- Forestry AgNIC -
This site provides links along a broad range of themes including links
to reference resources, full-text resources, associations /
organizations, government agencies, and conferences.
- Insect Pollination
of Cultivated Crop Plants - Online version of the print work of
the same title.
- Noble Foundation Plant
Image Gallery - This site provides images for more than 600
species of native grasses, forbs, and woody plants. The records for
most of the species include three to five clear photos showing the
whole aspect of the plant as well as close-ups of the flowering
organs, fruits, stems, and leaves.
- Virginia
Tech Weed Identification Guide - This site provides information
concerning the identification of common weeds and weed seedlings found
throughout Virginia and the southeastern United States.
- WWW
Virtual Library: Forest Genetics and Tree Breeding
Zoology
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