Links on the www: Botany

Botany

The internet sites were selected based upon the authority and/or reputation of the issuing body in addition to the quality and organization of the website.

• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Site devoted to information of interest to systematists and other biologists of the organismic kind.
  
  
• Biology Browser Resources for the life sciences information community. Formerly produced by Biosis, now by Thomson Scientific.
  
  
• Index to American Botanical Literature A database of extant and fossil plants (land and marine) and fungi in the Americas, from Greenland to Antarctica. Coverage includes systematics floristics, morphology, ecology, economic botany, and general botany. Produced by the New York Botanical Garden.
  
  
• Internet Directory for Botany An index to botanical information available on the Internet.
  
  
• National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII): Botany A broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry.
  
  
• PLANTS Database Focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. Includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials information, plant links, and references. Created by the National Plant Data Center of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
  
  
• Tree of Life A project containing information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics. The information is linked together in the form of the evolutionary tree that connects all organisms to each other.
  
  
• Species 2000 Catalogue of Life Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes on Earth as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity.