Wellesley
College Campus Master Plan Site
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http://www.wellesley.edu/Planning/
Campus_Master_Plan.html
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The history and future of Wellesley's landscape.
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Nearctica
- The Natural World of North America
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http://www.nearctica.com/
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Information and links on everything from wildflowers to conservation
ideas. Highly recommended!
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Biology
330 - Plant Systematics
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http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/
abrahmsn/bi330/
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Site created by Bucknell University professor Warren G. Abrahmson.
A plant systematics survey, a tree identification guide, and
an excellent botany links page.
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Botanical.com
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http://www.botanical.com
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All sorts of plant information; lore, medicinal uses, and growing
information.
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Tree
of Life
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http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree
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Traces the evolution of plant, animal, and fungal life. A very
informative and useful reference.
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National Audubon
Society
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http://www.audubon.org
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Extensive information and links on birds.
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Weed Science Society
of America
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http://www.wssa.net/photos.html |
A web site for identifying common plants—considered
weeds when not desired.
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Virtual Foliage
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http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/ |
This Web site hosts five different image collections from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison's Botany Department
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Weeds on the Web
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http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/ |
The Wildland Invasive Species Program of The Nature Conservancy
(TNC) hosts this interesting and light-hearted page on the invasive
plants currently threatening the bio diversity of wild lands
in the US.
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Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
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http://www.wildflower2.org/NPIN/Gallery/Gallery.html |
Native Plant Information Network: Image Gallery.
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Botany 301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants
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http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/tfp/tfphome1.html |
This spectacular learning resource is provided for Web viewers
by botanist Dr. Hugh Wilson of Texas A&M University.
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Botanical Society of America (BSA)
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http://images.botany.org/bsa/ |
Online Image Collection.
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Northeast Wetland Flora
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http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/neflor/neflor.htm |
Field Office Guide to Plant Species.
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Texas A&M: Bioinformatics Working Group
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http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.html |
This Vascular Plant Image Gallery has a collection of about
6,000 images.
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Index to American Botanical Literature Online
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http://www.nybg.org/bsci/iabl.html |
The New York Botanical Garden web site now includes a searchable
version of entries in the Index to American Botanical Literature.
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Woody Plant Ecology
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http://members.tripod.co.uk/WoodyPlantEcology/ |
All about Woody Plants.
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Tree Guide
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http://www.treeguide.com |
This guide has accounts of more than 800 species, including
range maps.
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Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database
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http://ip.aaas.org/tekindex.nsf |
The Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database (TEK*PAD) "is
an index and search engine of existing Internet-based, public
domain documentation concerning indigenous knowledge and plant
species uses."
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Animal Diversity Web
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http://animaldiversity.ummz .umich.edu/site/index.html
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University of Michigan's interactive database of natural history
and conservation.
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Singing Insects of North America [pdf, wav]
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http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/ |
This site enables users to
identify a wide range of singing insects. |
Beetle Science [Macromedia Flash Player,
Quick Time]
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http://explore.cornell.edu/scene.cfm?scene=Beetle%20Science |
You don't have to be a coleopterist to enjoy
this eye-catching Web site from Cornell University's Department
of Entomology. |
Natural History Museum in London
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http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/hostplants |
This site provides data for 22,000 species
of moths and butterflies. |
Wild Species
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http://www.wildspecies.ca |
Wild Species 2000 reports on endangered
species of Canada. |
Mammal Species of the World (MSW)
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http://nmnhwww.si.edu/msw/ |
Mammal Species of the World contains the
names of over 4,000 species in taxonomic
hierarchy. |
Bat Ecology and Acoustics Lab [wav]
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http://www.bio.bris.ac.uk/research/bats/calls/ |
This site contains audio clips of bat
echolocation calls from the Bat Ecology and Acoustics Lab at the
University of Bristol. |
BirdSource
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http://www.birdsource.org |
Sponsored by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
and the National Audubon Society. |
The Birds of Indiana
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http://www-lib.iupui.edu/butlerbirds/ |
Identification and classification of birds
of Indiana. |
Amphibian Research and Monitoring
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http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/armiatlas/ |
Initiative (ARMI): The ARMI National Atlas
for Amphibian Distributions. |
Midwest Frogs
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http://www.Midwestfrogs.com |
This site offers video clips of frog calls. |
Reptiles
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http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/ LivingReptiles.html |
The EMBL
Reptile Database is a great resource for reptiles. |
Antbase
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http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/
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The Social Insects Web. |
Fishbase
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http://www.fishbase.org/ |
Information about fishes worldwide. |
Butterflies of the USA
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http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/ resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm |
This site allows users to identify butterflies
of North America using distribution maps, images, and characteristics. |
Crayfish Homepage
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http://crayfish.byu.edu/index.htm |
Users may link to in-depth information on
Crayfish identification, phylogeny, species lists, conservation,
bibliography, and photographs. |