Rivers Project

TECI Program

Resources for Understanding Plants and Insect: 
Digital Libraries and Identification Tools

P. Bryan Heidorn,
University of Illinois
Graduate School of Library and Information Science

Links for class use.

The Class Slide Presentation for April 21, 2001 http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/pub/BiologyOnLine/
National SMETE Digital Library http://www.smete.org/
National Biology Digital Library  http://cecssrv1.rnet.missouri.edu/NSDLProject/
PLAN-IT EARTH http://www.isbe.state.il.us/planit/
Unit 1 PLAN-IT Slides
Unit 1 – Activity 1
Slides and Handouts [http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/OnlineBio/slides.html]

Flora and Fauna on the Web

DMOZ: Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna

Finding Plants on the Web
DMOZ: Science: Biology: Flora and Fauna: Plantae
Biobrowser http://www.biobrowser.org
NatureServe http://www.natureserve.org/
Association for Biodiversity Information
Australian National Botanical Garden -http://www.anbg.gov.au/
http://www.rbgsyd.gov.au/HISCOM/Virtualherb/virtualherbarium.html
FloraBase http://www.calm.wa.gov.au/science/florabase.html
Glossary of Flora of Australia – http://www.anbg.gov.au/abrs/flora/webpubl/splitgls.htm
Missouri Botanical Garden http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html
Ohio State University's Factsheet Database http://plantfacts.osu.edu/
Colorado State University Cooperative Extension
Flora of North America http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/

Collecting
Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research http://www.anbg.gov.au/projects/collecting/collecting.html
Field Techniques Used by Missouri Botanical Garden
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/library/Fieldtechbook/frontpg.html

Insects
The Virtual Insectary! http://filebox.vt.edu/forestry/wildlife/stein/insects.html
PrairieWatch Butterflies http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~webvibe/Butterflies/Butterflies.htm

Keys
Delta http://biodiversity.bio.uno.edu/delta/
IntKey http://biodiversity.uno.edu/delta/www/diff.htm
FNA keys http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/
PrairieWatch Butterflies of Illinois http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~webvibe/Butterflies/Butterflies.htm
NaviKey 2.0  http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/computerlab/web_keys/navikey/
Polyclave http://prod.library.utoronto.ca/polyclave/
PalmKey version 1.0 http://www.herbaria.harvard.edu/~cwebb/PalmKey/

Publications
The Plant Information Center by Evelyn Daniel, Peter White, Jane Greenberg, and James Masse. First Monday, volume 5, number 6 (June 2000), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue5_6/daniel/index.html
North Carolina Botanical Information Network http://metalab.unc.edu/botnet/flora/indexstart.html and the Classified Glossary of Botanical Terms linked to that page

Other Resources
Missouri Botanical http://www.mobot.org/
BioBrowser http://www.biobrowser.org/
The New York Botanical Garden http://www.nybg.org/bsci/herb/ Type imageing project
The CalFlora Species Database
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/calflora/about.html
THE USDA Plants Database http://plants.usda.gov/plants/
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)http://www.itis.usda.gov/index.html
Inquiry Page http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/