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| Giga Bits (more) | Taxonomic | fungi | 2000 |
| species | Mammals | amphibians | Taxonomy |
| groups of organisms | Biodiversity | invertebrates | butterflies |
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Encyclopedia of Life A new project to create an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet. Includes FAQ and press resources. www.eol.org - cached |
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NCBI Taxonomy Searchable and browsable taxonomy tree of organisms for which there are publicly available gene sequences. Search in Category: Science: Biology: Taxonomy Search in Category: Science: Biology: Bioinformatics: Directories Search in Category: Science: Biology: Genetics Search in Category: Science: Technology: Biomedical Engineering www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/taxonomyhome.html |
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ARKive : Images of Life on Earth The Noah's Ark for the Internet era. A global initiative gathering together films, photographs and audio recordings of endangered species from round the world. Search in Category: Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: Living Things: Animals: Endangered Species Search in Category: Science: Environment: Biodiversity: Education www.arkive.org - cached |
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Biodiversity Explorer Classification of all forms of life, with some photos. Has a strong South African emphasis. Search in Category: Regional: Africa: South Africa: Travel and Tourism: Attractions www.museums.org.za/bio - cached |
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BioImages - Virtual Fieldguide for UK Biodiversity Large selection of pictures of organisms, mostly British in origin. Images are an aid to identification, showing different stages, states and views of the organisms. Search the database or follow a taxonomic tree. Search in Category: Recreation: Outdoors: Wildlife: Europe Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Science and Environment: Biology www.bioimages.org.uk - cached |
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BioLib Taxonomic tree of plants and animals with a photo gallery and some checklists for the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In Czech and English. Search in Category: World: Česky: Věda: Biologie: Flóra a fauna www.biolib.cz - published: Jan 22 2009 - cached |
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BiologyBase Checklists, articles, and links for the world of life. www.biologybase.com - cached |
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Canada's Aquatic Environments Information about the aquatic habitats, animals, and plants of this country. Search in Category: Kids and Teens: School Time: Science: The Earth: Biomes: Marine Habitats Search in Category: Science: Biology: Ecology: Aquatic Ecology Search in Category: Science: Environment: Water Resources www.aquatic.uoguelph.ca - cached |
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Census of Marine Life A global network of researchers engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the past, present, and future diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans. www.coml.org - cached |
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Clear Mind Photos Photographs by Philip Goddard of insects, other invertebrates, wild flowers, lichen, fungi and some birds and mammals. www.clear-mind-photos.com - cached |
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Discover Life Information about taxonomy, natural history, distribution, abundance, and ecology of many species worldwide. Includes tools to identify, map, and database species. Search in Category: Science: Environment: Biodiversity: Organizations www.discoverlife.org - cached |
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Families Introduction to the classification of plants and animals from the Franklin Institute, with links to many groups of living organisms. sln.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/classify/classify.html - cached |
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Integrated Taxonomic Information System Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world. Search in Category: Science: Biology: Taxonomy www.itis.gov - cached |
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Nature of New England Photos, facts, and links to information about birds, butterflies, mammals, and wildflowers of this region. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Regions: New England: Science and Environment www.nenature.com - cached |
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Tree of Life Web Project Collaborative effort of biologists from around the world, providing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their evolutionary history (phylogeny) and characteristics. www.tolweb.org - cached |
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Willi Hennig Society Society of cladisticians, publishes the journal "Cladistics" Search in Category: Science: Biology: Taxonomy: Cladistics www.cladistics.org - cached |
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World's Boreal Forests: Animal and Plant Species Fact sheets and photos for mammals, birds, trees and other plants of boreal regions. Search in Category: Regional: North America: Canada: Ontario: Regions: Northwestern www.borealforest.org/world/world_species.htm - cached |
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African Wildlife Photographs Library of high resolution stock wildlife photographs by John Visser. www.africanwildlifephotos.co.za - cached | |
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Classification of Living Things An introduction to the naming and relationships of living things. Classification involves much human judgement and is in a constant state of flux as new information is discovered. Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Business and Economy: Industries: Manufacturing: Optics Search in Category: Science: Methods and Techniques: Microscopy: Light Microscopy www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/index.html?http:/www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/pond/taxonomy.html - cached | |
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GlobalTwitcher.com Database covering the flora and fauna of the world with a checklist for each country. www.globaltwitcher.com - cached | |
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HabitasOnline Information on the plants, animals, and fossils of Ireland. Includes an encyclopedia of marine life of the UK. From the Ulster Museum Sciences Division. Search in Category: Regional: Europe: United Kingdom: Northern Ireland: Science and Environment: Wildlife www.habitas.org.uk - cached | |
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Thomson: Free Resources Includes the Index to Organism Names, a publicly available subset of TRITON the Taxonomy Resource, and the Zoological Record Thesaurus. scientific.thomson.com/free - cached | |
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World Biodiversity Database A growing taxonomic database and information system that aims at documenting all presently known species (about 1.7 million). Taxonomic trees, descriptions, synonyms, literature citations, and molecular database queries. Search in Category: Science: Biology: Taxonomy Search in Category: Science: Biology: Taxonomy: Software: Taxonomic Databases Search in Category: Science: Environment: Biodiversity: Informatics: Software www.eti.uva.nl/Database - cached | |
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Dr. PI bloobook Multilingual weblexicon for animals, plants, fungi, bacteria and other organisms of the world, covering more than 5000 species. www.bloobook.net - cached | |
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Lepidoptera and Other Life Forms Taxonomic tree of mammals, insects, birds, and plants. Includes common and scientific names, publication details, references, links, general range maps, and some images. Most complete for Lepidoptera. www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/intro.html - cached | |
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Natural Selection A gateway to quality, evaluated Internet resources in the natural world co-ordinated by The Natural History Museum, London. www.nature.ac.uk | |
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Natural Perspective This site is dedicated to the beauty and science of nature and to the joys nature brings to those who explore it. The joy of seeing "familiar faces" everywhere; the invigoration a nature walk brings to both body and soul; the beauty and diversity of our Earthly co-habitants; and the pleasure of eating something found along the way. The material here is organized according to the biological principles of Taxonomy, or classification: We live on a planet called Earth. Biologists call the Earth ... www.perspective.com/nature - published: May 13 2000 - cached | |
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Mikko's Phylogeny Archive During the move of Archive away from the Finnish Museum of Natural History server I made a promise to do more frequent updates. Despite my best hopes expressed during the lauch of the Archive in new location, I was unable to do more updates during 2008 and 2009. Although I have been working towards a more steady state of updates, my hopes has been mashed by such trivial and mundane things as day job and lack of free time. Poor Archive has suffered due this lack of commitment to it for over 1½ ... Search in Category: Reference: Museums: Science: Natural History: Europe Search in Category: Regional: Europe: Finland: Arts and Entertainment: Museums www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo - modified: 1 month ago - cached | |
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iSpecies A species search engine from Rod Page of Glasgow University. Search on either the common or Latin name of a species. Results are generated by querying other data sources. Search in Category: Science: Search Engines darwin.zoology.gla.ac.uk/~rpage/ispecies - cached | |
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Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Integrated Taxonomic Information System Searchable database of four kingdoms: plant, animal, fungi, monera. Search by scientific or common names, English or French. sis.agr.gc.ca/pls/itisca/taxaget?p_ifx=aafc | |
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Survey of the Plant Kingdoms Explores plant anatomy, taxonomy, and classification, from Monera through the higher plants. Includes descriptions as well as graphics and schematics. home.manhattan.edu/~frances.cardillo/plants/intro - cached | |
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Utah Conservation Data Center Database of photos and fact sheets for animals and plants occurring in this state. Includes lists of sensitive, threatened, and endangered species. Search in Category: Regional: North America: United States: Utah: Science and Environment: Environmental Research dwrcdc.nr.utah.gov/ucdc - cached | |
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