Links

African plants:

• AETFAT
• Sabonet
• Gabon National Parks
• flora zambesiaca
• Gulf of Guinea Islands' Biodiversity Network
• Guide to bryophytes of sub-Saharan Africa
• Flore du Benin

Cultivated plants: 

• Living  Solanaceae collection: Botanical Garden Nijmegen
• Genenbank with for e.g. Solanum collections: Centre for Genetic Resources 
• Garden Literature index 
• IPGRI Germplasm Databases

• botany
• for other herbaria: Index Herbariorum, part 1, The Herbaria of the World
• Cruijdeboeck
• Bamps Digitaal

For Plantnames:

• International Plant Name Index (IPNI)
• Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum)
• Database of the flowering plants of Africa South of the Sahara
• Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden's)
• electronic Plant Information Centre (ePIC) (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
• flora zambesiaca search
• taxonomic literature: Kew Record of Taxonomical Literature
• for proposals of conservering names: Conserved and rejected plant names: proposals and disposals
• databases for groups of plants and animals: Catalogue of Life van Species 2000 project
• for Leguminosae: ILDIS
• for Linneaanse names and their types: The Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
• for All Annononaceae names.
• for mushrooms and other Fungi: Index Fungorum
• for search in plantcollections:
  • Collections of the NHN using Brahms OnLine.
  • Other herbarium databases using Brahms OnLine.
  • Harvard University Herbaria
  • types and other herbarium collections database of the National Herbarium of The Nederland (old)
  • Tropicos (Missouri Botanical Garden's)
  • Solanaceae Source
  • Sonnerat herbarium collections Paris (P)
  • Zürcher Herbarien (Zurich, Z)
  • Compositae types database, resultaat van het INFOCOMP project van de Botanische Staatssammlung München
  • Linnean Herbarium (S-LINN) Linnaeus herbarium in Stockholm
  • Botanical Type Specimen Register (voor types in US herbarium)
  • Herbium specimens for SA
• for photos: Botanical Image Databases
• endangered species: 1997 IUCN Red List of Threatened Plants
• for classification: Landplants online with e.g.
• mosses classification: Bryophyta
• herbarium database programs: Brahms
• finding botanists (either collectors and authors): Index of Botanists
• Journal abbreviations according to BPH: Index of Botanical Publications
• Flora of Australia online
• Flora Europaea

SEARCH-ENGINE



                    Pdf-files
                   angiosperm phylogeny     

LITERATURE
      

• Taxonomic literature and search for names in papers: Biodiversity Library
•         botanicus digital library
•         Hunt Institute for botanical documentation.
  
  
  
  

Zoologie

• for names of locus and crickets (Orthoptera): Orthoptera Species File online (OSF) for names of beetles (Coleoptera): Coleoptera databases and catalogs
• for names of fish: FishBase
• for names of reptiles: Synopsis of the recent Reptilia
• selected databases for groups of plants and animals: Species 2000
• Standard abbreviations (Accronyms) for insect and spider collections of the world: Insect and Spider Collections of the World Web Site
• new and changed names in Entology: New Entomological Taxa

Both botany and zoology

• for threatened species: IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
• for standarised fieldnames: Taxonomic Databases Working Group and additions on the Berlin website
• The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
• taxa protected by CITES: Appendices 1, II & III
• CITES registered institutes: Register
• Wild conservation

DNA

• NHN protocol for the use of herbarium material and DNA samples for DNA analyses sequenses: taxon entry of genbank
• blast searches on sequenties: BLAST 
• analyses programms for molecular data: EMBOSS

Geografie:
     

• finding places, etc.: NIMA
• botanic collection sites on Madagascar: Gazetteer to Malagasy Botanical Collecting Localities
• map of Equatorial Guinea: Carte de Guinée Equatoriale (menu)
• maps available in Wageningen (geodesk): Geo Key Select
• adminstrative divisions: Country data index
• maps showing major en minor areas:
• Tanzania: Tanzania administrative units and Tanzania adminstrative Divisions (map)
• Afriterra Maps

Translate:

•      translations between several languages: SYSTRAN 
•      translate botanic terms English to French and visa versa. Glossary of botanical terms in French and English
•      Google translate

Phylogeny websites    
           Angiosperm Phylogeny Website

Nomenclatuur

• International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
• International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants
• International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Special groups

Botany

• The Parasitic Plant Connection
• Leguminosae: ILDIS
• Cryptocoryne and Lagenandra: The crypts pages
• cacti and succulents:
  • The Cactus and Succulent Plant Mall
  • The Succulent Plant Page
  • Succulenta
• orchids:
  • The American Orchid Society
  • The Orchid Weblopedia
• historic book n woods: Houtkunde van Martinus Houttuyn en de online versie
• Virtual Tree Guide of the Guianas
• Guide to bryophytes of sub-Saharan Africa
• Herbarium specimens
• Roxburgh Icones

Zoologie

• beetles: www.coleoptera.org
• links to selected beetle family study groups newsletters: Coleoptera Newsletters
• Leafbeetles: Oreina pagina and Goudhaantjes (Chrysomelinae) Tabel voor Nederland
• Orthoptera of Canary Islands: Ecofaunistics of Canarian Orthoptera
• cicads: Tymbal  

Online identifications and identification programs

• World Wide Flowering Plant Family Identification
• The Families of Flowering Plants
• Delta (e.g. identification software for all plantfamilies and for genera of Caesalpinioideae and Poaceae)
  

Foundations, Societies, etc.:

• Moabi  Small grants for African students to study the African flora
• International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT)
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT)
• AETFAT
• Sabonet
• Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging (NEV)
• Coleopterists Society
• The Orthopterists' Society
• Onderzoeksschool Biodiversiteit
• NLBIF

Other links:

• import rules to the Netherlands (fytosanitarian rules): Handboek fytosanitaire eisen

• Harvest Cals
• Wageningen Evolution and Ecology Seminars