The Tree of Life Web Project (ToL) is a collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 3000 World Wide Web pages, the project provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny), and characteristics. Each page contains information about a particular group of organisms (e.g., echinoderms, tyrannosaurs, phlox flowers, cephalopods, club fungi, or the salamanderfish of Western Australia). ToL pages are linked one to another hierarchically, in the form of the evolutionary tree of life. Starting with the root of all Life on Earth and moving out along diverging branches to individual species, the structure of the ToL project thus illustrates the genetic connections between all living things. ... [Information of the supplier]
Scientific names of organisms are not usually known for their entertainment value. They are indispensable for clarity in communication, but most people skip over them with barely a glance. Here I collect those names that are worth a second look. Some names are interesting for what they are named after (for example, Arthurdactylus conandoylensis, Godzillius), some are puns (La cucaracha, Phthiria relativitae), and some show other kinds of wordplay (such as the palindromic Orizabus subaziro). Some have achieved notability through accident of history, and many show the sense of humor of taxonomists. Home brings you back here. Rules gives a brief overview of the rules governing biological naming (and, along the way, includes several curious examples). Etymology lists names that are notable for what they are named after. Puns lists names which are unusual for how they sound. Wordplay includes all unusual features of names other than their meaning and pronunciation. Gene Names lists a few of the interesting names which have been given to genes. Misc. includes things which do not fit elsewhere, including other curious biological terms, interesting stories about names, and some creative writing. References includes also links, acknowledgements, and a list of the newest entries. ... [Information of the supplier]
ZipcodeZoo.com aspires to be a useful Field Guide to plants and animals of the world. Often, to be useful, a field guide must have a sense of where you are and what might be found there. Our natural world is rapidly losing its diversity and abundance. To slow this loss, and to better appreciate the natural world, we must begin with local nature. ZipcodeZoo works to bring the natural world to armchair, amateur, and professional naturalists. Our focus is Applied Biogeography: understanding plants and animals in their place, perhaps even your backyard. We want to build an online field guide suited for the amateur naturalist. Here are highlights of what we have done so far: a) We've added information on 2,646,557 species from around the world. Zipcode Zoo is not just for Americans (and more than half our visitors don't live in the land of zipcodes.) b) We've been gathering field observations -- 127,715,643 so far -- and mapping them with the help of Google, to help you see exactly where a plant or animal has been reported. c) Finding just the right species in all of this can be like finding a needle in a haystack. A Proximity Lister and a Region Lister will help you find plants or animals in a geographic area of interest. PlantFinder offers 19 criteria to narrow your selection of plants. PlantFinder's database currently includes 1,555,827 attributes for 209,411 of the 1,105,429 plants on this site. BirdFinder uses location and 102,204 attributes for 4,753 birds. d) We've added popup definitions for 236,201 terms. For many terms such as "abdominal", the popup definition pronounces the term. Short definitions such as that for "entire" simply popup on mouse over, then go away. Other definitions, such as that for "abdominal" open in small windows. e) We've built localized lists of Invasives Near You and Threatened Near You to list local Invasives and threatened species. f) We've made a start at sorting through identifications with Key, a tool that helps you step through kingdom, phylum, class, order, and family to help you decide what species you have at hand. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The IdentifyLife project seeks to do three main things: a) to bring together into one space a wide range of identification tools, to help people throughout the world identify living organisms. This part of IdentifyLife is called Keys Central. b) to create a collaboration space where the world's community of experts and enthusiasts can help manage identification keys and descriptive information. We call this space My IdentifyLife c) to start to build an ambitious key - the Key to All Life - to all the world's living organisms. The area Keys Central is a listing of keys and other identification resources for any group of living organisms from throughout the world. The last area of IdentifyLife is the ambitious Key to All Life project. This seeks to build a web-based, friendly and accessible yet powerful identification key to all the world's living organisms. ... [Information of the supplier, modified]
The web site documents, and analyses current practice in animal experiments. The area “database” gives you access to information for almost 3000 published investigations carried out by scientists working in Germany and Austria (with biographic data and content details). Specialist journals, doctoral work, and post-doctoral qualification work are evaluated. ... [Editorial staff vifabio]
Through this database you have access primarily to the titles published by IUCN - The World Conservation Union from 1948 to the present. However it also includes publications of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, TRAFFIC - the joint wildlife trade monitoring programme of IUCN and WWF, UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, and a small selection of titles from IUCN members or other publishers. ... [Information of the supplier]
NaturSportInfo is an information system with standardised short abstracts of the literature for the topic area “Effects of Sport and Leisure Time Activities on Flora and Fauna”. (Short abstracts are not, however, available for all titles.). In addition links, definitions, and background information is made available. [Editorial staff vifabio]
The SORA project is an open access electronic journal archive and is the product of a collaboration between the American Ornithologists Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, the Association of Field Ornithologists, the Wilson Ornithological Society and the University of New Mexico libraries and IT department. This archive provides access to an extensive Ornithological literature of international scope, and detailed material documenting the history of Ornithology in North America over the last 120 years. The content of this site includes the following titles: The Auk (1884-1999), The Condor (1899-2000), The Journal of Field Ornithology (1930-1999), The Wilson Bulletin (1889-1999), Pacific Coast Avifauna (1900-1974) and Studies in Avian Biology (1978-1999). The North American Bird Bander will also be available in the near future. The content is available in searchable and browseable formats and documents can be downloaded as pdf or djvu files. Djvu files rely on an “acrobat” type browser plug-in (www.lizardtech.com) for viewing and are approximately 1/4 the size of pdf files for faster downloads. Web browsers must have the ability to read java script (make sure it is turned on). The site is still under development and additional features and journals (JFO browse feature and NABB for example) will be added as the materials become available and the programming is completed. ... [Information of the supplier]
The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published - with original page numbers, illustrations etc. A search tool for the entire site or individual works stored in multiple files is provided (...). If scholars are to find digital texts more useful, it must be perfectly clear which historical text is represented and the text must be useable and citable in conventional ways. The texts provided here are an attempt to do so for the writings of Darwin. The site also provides many more Darwin texts than are available anywhere else in fact almost the complete works. ... [Information of the supplier]
Diese bibliographische Datenbank enthält die Daten des "Botanico Periodicum Huntianum (BPH)" (Lawrence & al. 1968), "Botanico Periodicum Huntianum/Supplementum (BPH/S)" (Bridson and Smith 1991), darüberhinaus die Titel, Titelabkürzungen und Publikationsdaten aus "Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2 (TL-2)" (Stafleu & Cowan 1976, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1985, 1988), und "Taxonomic Literature, ed. 2, Suppl. 1-3 (TL-2/S)" (Stafleu & Mennega 1992, 1993, 1995) sowie die enstprechenden Daten weiterer, nicht in diesen Werken enthaltener Publikationen. ... [Information des Anbieters, übersetzt und verändert]