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THESAURI, GLOSSARIES, DICTIONARIES
BIOLOGY
Resources listed here include taxonomies. Other subject-specific thesauri and glossaries are listed elsewhere. Click here to access.
AmphibiaWeb http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw/ Eventual aim is to provide information on every amphibian species in the world. So far, 137 are covered.
Animal Diversity Web http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology
Biocomputing Index http://www.uni-mainz.de/~frosc000/bcd-vhg/bcdindex.html
BIOME http://biome.ac.uk/ Internet Resources in the Health and Life Sciences, part of the UK Resource Discovery Network. Access to quality resources in agriculture, food, forestry, pharmaceutical sciences, medicine, nursing, dentistry, biological research, veterinary sciences, the natural world, botany, zoology, and more.
Birds of the World Sibley and Monroe classification. http://birdingonthe.net/sibmon/birdframe.html
BUGBIOS http://www.insects.org/ Site dedicated to insects, including information on classification. Still relatively new and under development.
eNature.com http://www.enature.com/ The eNature.com Online Field Guide is a searchable database for identifying more than 4,000 plant and animal species of North America. Additional species and other nature content is constantly added to the database.
Encyclopedia of Psychology http://www.psychology.org/links/ A collection of over 2000 links on psychology. The links are organised hierarchically, and brief definitions are supplied for terms on each level of the hierarchy.
Entomology Databases http://entomology.si.edu/entomology/data.lasso About 25 databases on taxonomy etc of various families of insects. Produced by the Smithsonian Institute.
Extoxnet A network of University of California-Davis, Oregon State University, Michigan State University, Cornell University, and the University of Idaho providing information on toxicology, with emphasis on pesticides. The home page is at http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/ Two resources of interest are the glossary of pesticide-related terminology at http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/tibs/glossary.htm and the list of pesticide names at http://ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/tibs/pestgrp.htm
Fossil and Recent Brachiopod Genera http://www.nmnh.si.edu/gopher-menus/Brachiopods.html Over 4,000 references sorted by genus. Records include some or all of the following: author, date, type species, author of type species, superfamily, and stratigraphic range at the time of publication.
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING) http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/ing/ Collaborative project of the International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) and the Smithsonian Institution, initiated in 1954 as a compilation of generic names published for all organisms covered by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
Mammal Species of the World http://www.nmnh.si.edu/msw/ in a taxonomic hierarchy.
Marlin http://www.marlin.ac.uk/ Aims to be "the most comprehensive and easily used source of information about marine habitats, communities and species around Britain and Ireland and their sensitivity to natural events and human activities." The site includes a glossary of scientific marine biological terms used in the Biology and Sensitivity Key Information Sub-programme (in the Species Information section).
MedBioWorld http://www.sciencekomm.at/ A collection of 25,000 links to journals, associations, databases, publishers, glossaries and other resources in the biological and medical sciences.
Neoflora http://www.neoflora.com/ Database of plants, with over 38,000 entries.
Plants Database http://plants.usda.gov/ Diverse information about plants, including common and scientific names. Focuses mainly on plants that grow in the US.
Species 2000 http://www.sp2000.org/index.html "Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of organisms on Earth (animals, plants, fungi and microbes) as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity."
Vascular Plant Families and Genera http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/data/vascplnt.html The data presented here are taken from the publication Vascular Plant Families and Genera compiled by R. K. Brummitt and published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew in 1992.
World of Plants http://scitec.uwichill.edu.bb/bcs/bl14apl/bl14apl.htm Information on plants, with emphasis on Caribbean species.