Taxonomy

About taxonomy and systematics at the University of Glasgow, with links to other internet resources on these subjects.

Includes photos of more than 50,000 plant, palm, cycad and other cultivated tropical plants from Florida and taxonomic information on grasses, especially bamboos, and other economically important and interesting plants.

A global network of country-owned collaborative LOOPs to support national programs for biosystematics to support goals in areas such as sustainable development and pest management.

Promotes research and teaching in the taxonomy, systematics, and phylogeny of vascular and nonvascular plants.

A world leader for research on taxonomy and biodiversity.

ETI is a non-governmental organisation in operational relations with UNESCO. Their mission is to develop scientific/educational computer-aided information systems, to improve general access to, and to promote use of taxonomic and biodiversity knowledge worldwide.

A short glossary explaining some of the terms used in taxonomy. From a site on scale insects.

Directory of specialists searchable by name, country, or specialization.

Information of interest to systematists and other organismic biologists such as biological collections, taxonomic files, directories and ListServ archives, computer programs, reports by standards bodies (IOPI, ASC, and SA2000), and access to on-line journals.

Etymologies, puns and funny sounds and wordplay in taxonomy.

An up-to-date historical cross-referenced classification of life based on original authoritative scientific literature.

A networked information service for biological information resources, based upon the Taxonomic Name Server, a thesaurus of taxonomic information.

A flexible format for encoding taxonomic descriptions for computer processing. It can be used to produce natural-language descriptions, conventional or interactive keys, classifications, and information-retrieval systems.

National Science Foundation (USA) competition to support competitively reviewed research projects that target groups of poorly known organisms.

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.

A relational database of phylogenetic trees and the data matrices used to generate them from published research papers. Includes animals, plants, and fungi.

Authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.

About two dozen links collected by the Ontology Project at the philosophy department of State University of New York at Buffalo.

Information from Wikipedia on the practice and science of classification, the arrangement of organisms in a hierarchical structure.

Article from National Geographic News arguing that the taxonomic classification system devised by Linnaeus is oudated by genetic research that shows that morphological similarities are not necessarily proof of evolutionary relatedness.

Dr Kurt M. Pickett is leading research into the taxonomy of the Vespidae, the role of taxonomy in biology and various methodological and computational issues in phylogenetics.

Provides a taxonomy browser, taxonomy resources and other information.

An annotated, extensive hypertext glossary of the terminology of Phylogenetic Systematics, with a discussion and criticsm of mainstream Computer Cladistics.

Strategies and tips for learning how to identify plants in the field. Introduction to botanical terms, checklist for plant identification, recommended resources.

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The NCBI Taxonomy database is a curated set of names and classifications for all of the organisms that are represented in GenBank.[2008/11/29]

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