Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) is an online biotic database containing images and data for taxa used in analyses of Tropical American biodiversity over the past 25 million years. The NMITA WWW Site contains images and information on taxa collected as part of two large multi-taxa fossil sampling programs: (1) the Panama Paleontology Project (PPP) coordinated by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama; (2) the Neogene Paleontology of the northern Dominican Republic (DR) project coordinated by the Natural History Museum in Basel, Switzerland. NMITA is designed for use in research and education in systematics and evolutionary paleontology. Partial information is currently available for bryozoans, corals (zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate), molluscs (gastropods and bivalves), ostracodes, and fish. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
Major objectives of GLOMIS are: (1) To construct a database with the characteristics of single mangrove species and of mangrove ecosystems; (2) To disseminate worldwide the information stored in the Database; (3) To focus on the functioning, management and rational uses of single species of mangroves and of entire mangrove ecosystems, including local environmental and socio-economic inplications for coastal communities; (4) Organize, maintain and up-date at regular intervals the information system which is meant for the use of forestry, ficheries, law-makers and administrators, decision makers and users at large. This first phase of GLOMIS consists of a searchable database of scientific literature relating to mangroves, institutions and scientists working on all aspects of mangroves, as well as regional projects and programmes related to mangroves. We believe that GLOMIS is ready to be opened on the Web although refinements, improvements and corrections will always be needed. ... [Information of the supplier]
For most people, it is hard work to identify tropical forest plants with a scientific name, especially out in the field, whether on the farm by the road-side or in the forest. There are so many species and, compared to European plants, relatively little is published that can be used to identify them in the tropics. We hope with this web site to help at various levels with the identification of living plants, especially but not only in equatorial regions. We include guidance, literature and a growing number of images to aid field guide production. By promoting field guide production and thus a greater understanding of plant diversity in the tropics, we hope we are contributing to the long-term sustainability of rural livelihoods and bringing more immediate socio-economic benefits. The Virtual Field Herbarium plant image gallery (VFH for short) is composed of images and linked data from (eco-)friendly researchers and artists. In effect, the VFH is a collaborative tool, with various methods for sifting through the collection, and should be useful in itself for identifying plants, at least in the regions where we have collaborators. Like all aspects of this site, it is still young and growing. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Smithsonian Institution has a long history of monographic and floristic work on the plant family Gesneriaceae, one of the largest families of the Lamiales as now circumscribed. Conrad V. Morton worked on the family from the 1930s until his death in 1972. Shortly after Morton’s death, Dr. Laurence E. (Larry) Skog was hired to continue research on Gesneriaceae in the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany, and continues to work on the group since retiring in 2003. In large part due to the work of these two scientists, the United States National Herbarium (US) has grown to have one of the largest and richest collections of Gesneriaceae in the world, with approximately 28,000 specimens and including about 1,000 types. Although the emphasis of the collection is on New World material it includes many specimens from the Old World, with particularly significant holdings of Chinese, Philippine, and Pacific Island material. The department also maintains a small living collection of approximately 300 accessions in its research greenhouses in Suitland, Maryland. ... [Information of the supplier]
The site Melastomataceae.Net will present information on the biodiversity of these two families by providing a portal to open-access databases, starting with MEL names. MEL names is a service for accessing the ca. 13,278 names of Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae with information on recognized species, synonymous names, and literature; MEL occurrence will deliver data on distribution of species and genera. It is planned for the future and will offer special search options, e. g. in connection with ecological data of tropical biomes. In the meantime, the Occurrences search of the GBIF portal is recommended. Please try the advanced seach options there. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to the largest photo collection of tropical lichens online. You can search this website by typing a few letters in the search box, or browse by clicking the first letter of the genus. Field guides with pictures of tropical lichens are rare although lichen diversity is highest in the tropics. With this website we provide images of many rarely depicted lichen taxa. This website is an initiative of André Aptroot (main image contributor) and Laurens Sparrius (web programming). This website contains over 3800 photos of over 2300 species. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]