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    Now that you've explored Web of Species, try exploring some of these excellent resources on the World Wide Web!
 

Wellesley College Campus Master Plan Site

http://www.wellesley.edu/Planning/
Campus_Master_Plan.html

The history and future of Wellesley's landscape.

Nearctica - The Natural World of North America

http://www.nearctica.com/

Information and links on everything from wildflowers to conservation ideas. Highly recommended!

Biology 330 - Plant Systematics

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/
abrahmsn/bi330/

Site created by Bucknell University professor Warren G. Abrahmson. A plant systematics survey, a tree identification guide, and an excellent botany links page.

Botanical.com

http://www.botanical.com

 

All sorts of plant information; lore, medicinal uses, and growing information.

Tree of Life

http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree

Traces the evolution of plant, animal, and fungal life. A very informative and useful reference.

National Audubon Society

http://www.audubon.org

Extensive information and links on birds.

Weed Science Society of America

http://www.wssa.net/photos.html

A web site for identifying common plants—considered weeds when not desired.

Virtual Foliage

http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/

This Web site hosts five different image collections from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Botany Department

Weeds on the Web

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.

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

http://www.wildflower2.org/NPIN/Gallery/Gallery.html

Native Plant Information Network: Image Gallery.

Botany 301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants

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.

Botanical Society of America (BSA)

http://images.botany.org/bsa/

Online Image Collection.

Northeast Wetland Flora

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/1999/neflor/neflor.htm

Field Office Guide to Plant Species.

Texas A&M: Bioinformatics Working Group

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.html

This Vascular Plant Image Gallery has a collection of about 6,000 images.

Index to American Botanical Literature Online

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.

Woody Plant Ecology

http://members.tripod.co.uk/WoodyPlantEcology/

All about Woody Plants.

Tree Guide

http://www.treeguide.com

This guide has accounts of more than 800 species, including range maps.

Traditional Ecological Knowledge Prior Art Database

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."

Animal Diversity Web

http://animaldiversity.ummz
.umich.edu/site/index.html

University of Michigan's interactive database of natural history and conservation.

Singing Insects of North America [pdf, wav]

http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/
This site enables users to identify a wide range of singing insects.

Beetle Science [Macromedia Flash Player, Quick Time]

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

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/entomology/hostplants
This site provides data for 22,000 species of moths and butterflies.

Wild Species

http://www.wildspecies.ca
Wild Species 2000 reports on endangered species of Canada.

Mammal Species of the World (MSW)

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]

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

http://www.birdsource.org
Sponsored by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.

The Birds of Indiana

http://www-lib.iupui.edu/butlerbirds/
Identification and classification of birds of Indiana.

Amphibian Research and Monitoring

http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/armiatlas/
Initiative (ARMI): The ARMI National Atlas for Amphibian Distributions.

Midwest Frogs

http://www.Midwestfrogs.com
This site offers video clips of frog calls.

Reptiles

http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/~uetz/
LivingReptiles.html
The EMBL Reptile Database is a great resource for reptiles.

Antbase

http://research.amnh.org/entomology/social_insects/
The Social Insects Web.

Fishbase

http://www.fishbase.org/
Information about fishes worldwide.

Butterflies of the USA

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

http://crayfish.byu.edu/index.htm
Users may link to in-depth information on
Crayfish identification, phylogeny, species lists, conservation, bibliography, and photographs.

Created by: Niki Zhou and Carla Holleran
Maintained by: Nick Rodenhouse
Created: June 25, 2004
Last Modified: August 7, 2004
Expries: June 1, 2005