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Online Databases
CalFlora
A comprehensive database on the flora of California.
Canopy Citations Database.
The Canopy Citations Database contains over 1700 citations on canopy ecology.
Climate-Vegetation Atlas of North America: Conifers
Online version of USGS Professional Paper 1650-A, with PDF files showing range and climatic requirements of North American conifers. Very useful graphic presentation of climate requirements.
The Cycad Pages
Provides information on all described cycad species, and extensive supplemental information.
Virtual Cycad Encyclopedia
Administered by the Palm & Cycad Societies of Florida (PACSOF).
Bibliography of Dendrochronology: Search Page
Searchable database that includes virtually everything ever published on the subject of dendrochronology.
FEIS database
FEIS was developed at the USDA Forest Service Intermountain Research Station's Fire Sciences
Laboratory (IFSL) in Missoula, Montana. Among other things, it includes a database featuring many
plant species found in the western United States, providing information on distribution, fire effects,
value, ecological characteristics, and references for each species treated.
ICE Flora and Fauna Database
Slow and unwieldy, but provides a fairly complete listings of all plant and animal species found
in units of the US National Parks system.
Missouri Botanical Garden - Flora of
China Checklist.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program
Tree-Ring Data Search Page
PineBib: A Conifer Bibliography
PineBib is a bibliography containing references on conifer reproductive biology, breeding
systems, and genetics. It focuses on, but is not restricted to, the Pinaceae. Last update 2/25/94.
Plants Database
The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information about plants. This
database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and
its territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification
information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data,
plant materials information, plant links, references, and other plant information.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees
Provides a database including information on all 318 conifers currently classified as rare,
sensitive or endangered -- as well as approximately 7500 other tree species, and extensive supporting information.
Other Online Data Sources
Internet Directory for Botany
Conifers of the Pacific Northwest
Cycads of Mexico
Flora of North America
Vascular Plant Image Gallery
Non-Flowering Plant Families
Atlas of Florida Vascular Plants (Institute for Systematic Botany website)
Dr. Jerry Leverenz' Conifer Introduction page
Botanical Gardens
Internet Directory For Botany: Arboreta And Botanical Gardens
Arboretum de Villardebelle
French arboretum devoted to conifers.
The Eddy Arboretum
"The Eddy Arboretum at the Institute of Forest Genetics in Placerville, CA contains
the best-documented collection of pines in the world, in addition to many other native and
exotic conifers."
Fairchild Tropical Garden
Especially noteworthy for its cycad collection.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Particularly good for publications, and a good links page.
Norfolk Island Botanical Gardens
New York Botanical Garden
Royal Botanical Garden Edinburgh
(specifically, conifers).
Spanish Association of Parks and Public Gardens
Links Directory
An extraordinary collection of links dealing with all aspects of botany, both scientific and aesthetic.
Over 3600 links catalogued by topic.
University of
Delaware Botanical Garden
Glossaries
These links will help you with the sometimes rather obscure terms used in this database.
Flora of Australia Glossary
About 80K, no search page.
Botanical Glossary
About 2400 terms, searchable.
Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
Will help you to determine the meaning of species names, such as nidulum.
Glossary of -Onyms
Defines taxonomy's -onyms, such as "basionym".
Individual Species (alphabetical by genus)
Ecology and Distribution of Abies alba Mill. and mediterranean fir. This site, maintained in Italian by Enrico Rovelli, has descriptions for all species of Abies native to the Mediterreanean region. It includes photographs of most species. All pages are also available translated to several other European languages by an automatic translator.
Abies concolor, white
fir (University of California Fullerton website). Short, well-illustrated piece by Jason Richling and Erika
Catanese-Palacios.
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius. A short description with drawings of tree and foliage. By Brian G Forster.
The Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana). Short piece by Hank Nichol.
Wollemia nobilis,
Wollemi pine (Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney). A detailed, well-illustrated group of pages.
Miscellany
World Altavista: this page has
Altavista's translation service, which provides automated (and often amusing) translations
of web page texts. This will be useful for anyone pursuing links on non-English pages, and
may also be helpful to non-English speakers using the Gymnosperm Database.
The Mountains of California: The Forests
This chapter from John Muir's 1894 book, the Mountains of California, describes the
awesome conifers of the Sierra Nevada in terms both inspiring and scientifically accurate.
The website (which is part of the John Muir Website, maintained by the Sierra Club) includes
the full text of the book, with illustrations.
Diversity,
Endemism and Extinction in the Flora of New Caledonia
This outstanding website, prepared by Missouri Botanical Garden botanist Porter P. Lowry III,
describes the physiographic setting of New Caledonia and has many interesting comments and
fine photographs documenting native gymnosperms.
The American Conifer Society
The Cycad Society
Gondwana Gardens
Although primarily a commercial nursery, their selection includes many S Hemisphere
gymnosperms and they provide useful (chiefly horticultural) information on most stocked species.
Heronswood Nursery
This is another nursery that combines a large collection (conifers and ginkgo) with useful online information.
Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
Ultimate Tree-Ring Web Pages
The first place to go for information on any aspect of dendrochronology. Much useful
information and an extraordinary array of links.
The Tree-Ring Society
The only formal association of dendrochronologists worldwide. Publishes a journal,
Tree-Ring Research, sponsors international meetings, archives tree-ring data, etc.
PBIO 250 Lecture Notes -- Index -- Spring 1999
SYSTEMATIC BOTANY. Despite the unwieldy title, this is a complete set of lecture notes
for a course taught by James L. Reveal, a highly respected systematic botanist at the
University of Maryland. Extensively linked.
Central America and Mexico
Coniferous Resources Cooperative (CAMCORE).
Timber
(names and conservation status of many different timber trees)
Annotated
links to internet resources, especially for palaeobotanists (with an Upper Triassic bias).
The Ecological Role
of Fire in Sierran Conifer Forests
Conifers, an e-mail forum for discussion of horticultural questions
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