Selected Internet Resources - Botany
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GENERAL
Available either as a subject category list or an alphabetical list. Appears to be a comprehensive collection of botany links worldwide.
ARBORETA, BOTANICAL GARDENS, SOCIETIES, AND LIBRARIES
The Web site of America's oldest arboretum. The Arnold Arboretum Library provides a searchable catalog and archives collection.
Seeks to promote research and teaching. The Web site includes online teaching images, news highlights, and free access to the American Journal of Botany until April 2000.
Databases available at this site include the Gray Herbarium Index of New World Plants, Treebase, the Farlow Diatom Collections, and one on Botanical Authors.
Images, information on scientific research, databases including the List of Vascular Plant Families and Genera and The Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands. Provides links to other Web sites of botanical or horticultural interest.
Considered one of the great botanical gardens of the world, a useful site for endangered pants species, botanical and taxonomic research. Hosts other Web sites of interest, including the Center for Plant Conservation, and provides access to its Library's catalog and archives.
Plant information, searchable databases, including the Index of American Botanical Literature and provides access to one of the largest botanical libraries in the world.
SPECIALIZED SITES
Well-known for its 4-volume Dictionary of Gardening, the Society's Web site provides botanical and horticultural information, including book and plant finders.
Offers a Plant Science Reference Service, climatological data, crop data, and links to many other sites and resources.
Provides images, news items, educational materials and the Aquatic, Wetland and Invasive Plant information Retrieval System (APIRS), the world's largest information resource of its kind.
A subject-oriented resource guide for plant pathology, applied entomology, and fields on the Internet. Links are well annotated.
The database is a single source of standardized information about plants, including information on names, distributional data, crop information, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, reference and other plant information.
Provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources. Conservation databases include species, protected areas, forests, marine and costal areas, national biodiversity profiles, and the Centre's Library catalogue.
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