This site offers a large selection of pictures of Natural History objects, mostly British in origin. The images are presented to illustrate biodiversity and as an aid to identification. While pictures alone are generally NOT sufficient for identification, by showing different stages, states and views of the organisms more information can be offered than is available in field-guides. How to find your way around: BioImages is arranged in the normal biological classification (or at least my interpretation of it.) This is a hierarchical system with species grouped in genera, genera in families, families in orders and so on up to kingdoms and superkingdoms. 'Living Things' takes you to the top of the classification tree. If you just want to browse, Shortcuts takes you to a list of links to groups of organisms. You can then go directly to the group your are interested in. Then follow the links down to the species you want to see. On the left of each page in the classification hierarchy is a column of links to take you back up the hierarchy. Using these and the subtaxon links in the body of the page you can navigate sideways. This is a large site containing (Mar 06) 53,000 images depicting 4,600 species. The images include habitat shots, close-ups, macro shots and microscopy. Enjoy! ... [Information of the supplier]
The Cell Centered Database (CCDB), launched in 2002 as one of the first Internet databases for cellular imaging data, makes 3D microscopic imaging data available to the structural biology and neuroscience communities. This database houses structural and protein distribution information derived from confocal, multiphoton, and electron microscopy, including correlated microscopy. ... [Information of the supplier]
Whether you're talking to scientists or school children, nothing animates a presentation more than video of the subject. With support from The Royal Society, I've acquired video footage of a variety of reef-related phenomena during research trips. The full database of over 500 clips is provided here and is freely available for educational and research use. Simply select clips, download them to your hard disk, and insert them in PowerPoint or other presentation software. ... [Information of the supplier]
The aim of this work is to provide a large iconographic sample of European moths and butterflies and, for each species, information about foodplants, breeding, life cycle. [Information of the supplier]
The Digital Fish Library (DFL) is a collaborative project at the University of California, San Diego between the Center for Scientific Computation in Imaging (CSCI), the Center for functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (CfMRI) and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), including the Birch Aquarium at Scripps. The DFL mission is to catalog the anatomical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data of fishes from most major saltwater, and many freshwater genera to provide a resource for research and education. ... [Information of the supplier]
Iconographia Zoologica is a 19th century collection of zoological prints that was created by bringing together various collections in the library of the Dutch Royal Zoological Society Natura Artis Magistra between 1881 and 1883. The illustrations were systematically sorted according to the Animal Kingdom classification system used at the time ensuring that the state of science within zoology of that time was permanently recorded. The size and structure of Iconographia Zoologica make it immensely valuable to cultural and scientific heritage. In addition to drawings, Iconographia Zoologica has a particularly large number of prints made using a variety of printing techniques and often hand-coloured. They originate from zoological publications dating back to the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Together these prints and drawings constitute a unique paper databank of more than 80,000 illustrations. A selection of approximately 20,000 illustrations of mammals, birds and fish have been included in Memory of the Netherlands. The collection is housed in the Artis Library, part of the Special Collections of the Library of the University of Amsterdam. ... [Information of the supplier]
Welcome to Smithsonian WILD! This site is designed to showcase some of the exciting research conducted by the Smithsonian Institution and its collaborators around the world, and to highlight the incredible diversity of wildlife that exists in a range of habitats across the globe. The use of motion-triggered 'camera traps' has become an incredibly useful tool for scientists to answer an enormous range of conservation and ecological questions. Researchers attach these unique cameras to posts or trees, often along forest trails, and when a camera's sensor registers an animal's body heat and movement, a photograph is taken. The studies highlighted here demonstrate the range of applications of this method, and how these cameras give us a glimpse into an animal world that is rarely seen by anyone. You can search the site by following the trail of interesting animals or the lure of diverse sites around the world. You will notice that the images on this site vary considerably in quality, resolution and color. This is because the researchers involved in these studies have used a range of different camera models. Earlier camera models utilized standard film technology and took single photos when triggered. More recent camera models take digital photos and have the capacity to take many photos at each trigger event. We have included not just the most striking photos from these studies, but all the photographs. We think this will give you a better sense of the diversity of images captured by the cameras. This also allows us to show you 'near-video' sequences, which often display the movements and behavior of the animals. Our hope is that while you are being entertained by the amazing photographs, you will also learn about the animals, their diverse habitats, and what is being done to conserve them. At present we are accepting new photographs and datasets from professional survey efforts. If you have a dataset you think would be appropriate for this site, please contact William McShea. We hope in the future to accept photographs from citizen scientists as well, so keep checking back with the site for relevant updates. ... [Information of the supplier]
The Chrysomelidae Database includes thorough information on the holdings of all species of flea beetles (alticines), Aulacoscelidines, tortoise beetles (cassidines),and chlamisines in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History (USNM). The database documents the approximately 5,000 species in these four groups and provides information on type material, geographic region, country and state holdings, bionomic data, and classification. (To access, click on the gold disk above.) The data on remaining chrysomelid lineages will gradually be added to this database over time, with the Hispinae and Lamprosomatinae coming on board next in late 1999. ... [Information of the supplier]
Die Seite dient als Wegweiser zu privaten und öffentlichen Datenbanken, in denen überprüfte Informationen zur Laufkäfer-Faunistik aus Literatur, Sammlungen und Projekten gespeichert sind. Damit soll die Arbeit in Grundlagenforschung, Umwelt- und Artenschutz unterstützt werden. [Information des Anbieters, verändert]
This private website provides a photo gallery of 2,285 species out of approximately 7,000 beetle species known to occur in Germany. A search engine allows searching photos by scientific names or morphological characters. Wide information about morphology of beetles, biology of special species (Stag Beetle (Lucanus cervus); Click Beetle (Lacon querceus); Jewel Beetle (Agrilus biguttatus)), variability of ladybirds (Coccinellidae), phylogeny of Coeleoptera and conservation are given. A map module displays species records on a map of Germany. A glossary, information about further literature, meetings and web links are also provided. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
