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Online Databases
CalFlora
A comprehensive database on the flora of California.
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).
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.
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.
Bibliography of Dendrochronology: Search Page
Searchable database that includes virtually everything ever published on the subject of
dendrochronology.
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.
Accuracy is not guaranteed.
NOAA Paleoclimatology Program Tree-Ring Data Search Page
Missouri Botanical Garden - Flora of China Checklist.
CARL UnCover Main Search Page.
CARL UnCover isabout the most comprehensive search engine for the published scientific literature available on the Web today. Searching is free. Most articles can be faxed or e-mailed to you for a fee of about US$1.50 to $30.00 per page.
Canopy Citations Database.
The Canopy Citations Database contains over 1700 citations on canopy ecology.
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
Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum
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)
Abies concolor, white fir (University of California Fullerton website)
Encephalartos transvenosus: The Forest of Modjadji
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius: description and photos
Picea mariana, black spruce (Auburn University)
The Torrey Pine (Pinus torreyana).
Pseudotsuga menziesii, Douglas-fir (Auburn University)
Pinus longaeva, Inyo National Forest: Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
Wollemia nobilis, Wollemi pine (Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney)
Miscellany
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 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 Web Pages About Tree Rings And Tree-Ring Research
The first place to go for information on any aspect of dendrochronology. Much useful information and an extraordinary array of links.
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.
Index of threatened Australian plant species — 404, TRY SEARCH
Central America and Mexico Coniferous Resources Cooperative
Timber (names and conservation status of many different timber trees)
Social and Economic Report: Craftwood [Aus. & NZ species]
Annotated links to internet resources, especially for palaeobotanists (with an Upper Triassic bias).
The Ecological Role of Fire in Sierran Conifer Forests
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