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	Home: Biology: Taxonomy CATEGORIES:   Cladistics (7)   Software (38) LINKS: Fairchild Tropical Garden Virtual Herbarium http://www.virtualherbarium.org  pop 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. BioNET - International http://www.bionet-intl.org  pop 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. American Society of Plant Taxonomists http://www.sysbot.org/  pop Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification http://www.eti.uva.nl/  pop 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. ETI World Taxonomist Database http://www.eti.uva.nl/Database/WTD.html  pop Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization. Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature http://home.earthlink.net/~misaak/taxonomy.html  pop Etymologies, puns and funny sounds, wordplay, and more in taxonomy. DELTA: Description Language for Taxonomy http://delta-intkey.com/  pop 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. Taxonomy and Systematics at Glasgow http://taxonomy.zoology.gla.ac.uk/ About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects. NCBI Taxonomy Homepage http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html The NCBI Taxonomy Homepage Science at the Natural History Museum http://www.naturalhistorymuseum.org.uk/science/ A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity. Classification Lab http://sidwell.edu/us/science/vlb5/Labs/Classification_Lab/classification_lab.html A project examining the phylogenetic tree of life and all of its features, with information and pictures for every class and an interactive, dynamic hierarchy. Scalenet - Glossary http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/scalenet/glossary.htm A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects. Glossary of Phylogenetic Systematics http://www.bechly.de/glossary.htm An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics. Tree of Life http://tolweb.org/ 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. Treebase http://www.treebase.org/treebase/ A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi. Integrated Taxonomic Information System http://www.itis.usda.gov/ Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. Biodiversity and Biological Collection Databases http://www.biocollections.org/ 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. Systema Naturae 2000 http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/ An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authorative scientific literature. Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer http://www.ubio.org A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information. Partnerships for Enhancing Expertise in Taxonomy http://web.nhm.ku.edu/peet/ National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms. Biognomen http://webpages.charter.net/teefile/biognomen/ A Linnaean taxonomy arranged in hyperlinked evolutionary trees. One can navigate through the hierarchy vertically, or follow a lineage horizontally at a particular level of the hierarchy.

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