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Useful websites
Here you will find other websites that I found useful when writing this website.
Included are herbaria that hold Lacistemataceae specimens.
Also to be found here are useful contacts relating to securing land for indigenous peoples, conservation, sustainable usage of forests, policies and legislation relating to Mexico, middle and South America.
Pinned Items :
Turland, N. J., Wiersema, J. H., Barrie, F. R., Greuter, W., Hawksworth, D. L., Herendeen, P. S., Knapp, S., Kusber, W.-H., Li, D.-Z., Marhold, K., May, T. W., McNeill, J., Monro, A. M., Prado, J., Price, M. J. & Smith, G. F. (eds.) 2018: International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (Shenzhen Code) adopted by the Nineteenth International Botanical Congress Shenzhen, China, July 2017. Regnum Vegetabile 159. Glashütten: Koeltz Botanical Books AND Turland N (2019) The Code Decoded, Berlin Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Berlin, Germany available from Advanced Books
Dr M.'s MSc. Plant Diversity degree, University of Reading, Reading, U.K., also online at Dr M goes Wild and for Dr M. additional links to The Big Botany Challenge Symposium celebrating 50 years of teaching botany at University of Reading, U.K. and its Twitter page.
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Atlas of our changing environment, Environment for Development, United Nations Environment Programme
Berlin negatives taken by J.F. Macbride, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A.
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The BR Herbarium Catalogue, Botanic Garden Meise (National Botanic Garden of Belgium), Meise, Belgium
Burdet H M (1979) Auxilium ad Botanicorum Graphicem homepage online version in French only. Decryption of botanists handwriting and location of their herbarium specimens. Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Geneve, Switzerland. To find a botanist select 'Recherche Simple' heading.
Catalogue of Life, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Center for International Foresty Research (CIFOR) , Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), Bogor, Indonesia
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica
Commonwealth Forestry Association, Shropshire, U.K.
Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A.
Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Canada
Department of Botany Collections, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Digital Collections, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
EMBL-EBI - the home for big data in biology, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, U.K.
What is Encyclopedia of Life (EoL) - video on YouTube, Encyclopedia of Life homepage
Environmental Investigation Agency, London, U.K.
Escuela de Ciencias Forestales at Universidad Nacional de Ciencias Forestales, Honduras
Espanol-Ingles / Latin American Spanish-English: botanical terminology translator, Flora Mesoamericana: online version by Missouri Botanic Garden, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Natural History Museum London
European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN), Wageningen, The Netherlands
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Virtual Herbarium (FTG), Florida, U.S.A.
Fairtrade Foundation, London, U.K.
Field (F) herbarium, Botany Collections Database, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, U.S.A.
Flora Mesoamericana, the online version by Missouri Botanic Garden, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Natural History Museum London
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Bonn, Germay
Forests and Forestry, Agriculture and Rural Development Department, The World Bank, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
Geneva (G) herbarium and other databases, Conservatoire et Jardin Botaniques, Ville de Geneve, Switzerland
Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN), World Wide Fund for Nature International, Gland, Switzerland
Global Witness, London, U.K. Investigates and campaigns to prevent natural resource-related conflict and corruption.
Harvard University Herbaria and Libraries, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Hedges S B, Kumar S (Editors), TimeTree: the timescale of life, Oxford University Press, New York
Herbarium Berolinense (Berlin) Virtual Herbarium, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
Herbario Nacional Colombiano - Scientific Collections Online, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, South America
Heywood V H, Brummitt R K, Culham A, Seberg O (2007) Flowering plants of the world, Kew Books, London or Flowering Plants : a concise pictorial guide (2011), Kew Books, London
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Copenhagen, Denmark
Holmgren P K and Holmgren N H (1998 - continuously updated) Index Herbariorum: a global directory of public herbaria and associated staff, New York Botanical Garden's Virtual Herbarium, New York, U.S.A.
House of Lords (U.K.) Systematics and Taxonomy report 2007-8 (pdf), Science and Technology Committee, London
Illegal-Logging.info, London, U.K.
Index of Botanical Publications Database, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Index of Botanists Database, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
INSDC
Inside Wood, The InsideWood Working Group, Libraries and the Department of Wood and Paper Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA
Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia (Amazon Institute of People and Environment IMAZON), Belém, Pará, Brasil
International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA), Fargo, North Dakota, U.S.A.
International Institute for Environment and Development (iied), London, U.K.
International Labour Organization (ILO), Genève, Switzerland.
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (2008 onwards)
International Tropical Timber Organization> (ITTO), Yokohoma, Japan
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Cambridge, U.K.
Brach, A. R. & S. Liu. (1996-) Internet Directory for Botany - [http://www.botany.net/IDB/botany.html].
JSTOR Global Plants Initiative: High resolution type specimens and supporting materials, Ithaka Harbors Inc., New York, U.S.A.
Kew (K) Herbarium Catalogue, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, U.K.
The Linnean Society of London, U.K.
Martius K F P von (1857) Flora Brasiliensis online
MICH herbarium, University of Michigan Herbarium, MI, U.S.A.
MO herbarium (2008 onwards), Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri, U.S.A.
Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Botany, Leiden, The Netherlands
New York (NY) herbarium, The C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium, The New York Botanical Garden, International Plant Science Centre, New York, U.S.A.
Nomenclature Name Checker, Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera (IRMNG), OBIS/CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, Australia
Paris (P) herbarium catalogue, Museum National D'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Planet Bob - Youtube video, ASU International Institute for species exploration, Arizona State University, U.S.A. International Institute for Species Exploration homepage, New York, U.S.A.
Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center, Lundell Herbarium, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, U.S.A.
Popovkin Alex, Field Botanist, Photographic record of Atlantic Forest, Bahia, Brazil available online at Flickr.
Proforest, Oxford, U.K.
Reveal J R (2009 onwards) Indices Nominum Supragenericorum Plantarum Vascularium, Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A.
Roots of Botanical Names, Karen Fletcher, The Garden Gate online website
Russell S (1996 onwards) Scott's Botanical Links, Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahama, U.S.A.
S herbarium, International Botanical Collections Database, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), Panama
Species Link Project, bringing together the collections of natural history museums, herbaria and culture of Brasil into one online open access database.
Stevens P (2001 onwards [and more or less continuously updated since]) Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
Taxacom - Biological Systematics Discussion List, co-managed by Peter Rauch & Jim Beach, hosted at the University of Kansas National History Museum, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Stafleu F A, Cowan R S (1976 - 2009) Taxonomic Literature II : a selective guide to botanical publications and collections with dates, commentaries and types, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, Slovakia. Alternative website Taxonomic Literature II
TDWG: Biodiversity Information Standards, hosted by GBIF, Denmark & NHM, London
Tree of Life web project, The University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences & The University of Arizona Library (1995-2005)
Tropenbos International, Wageningen, The Netherlands. To improve tropical forest management for the benefit of people, conservation and sustainable development.
Universal Biological Indexer and Organizer (uBio), The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
UN-REDD Programme (a network in forest climate policy to Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
Virtual International Authority File, Online Computer Library Centre (OCLC), Dublin, Ohio, U.S.A.
Web of Science for UK Education, Clarivate Analytics, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, United Nations Environment Programme, Cambridge, U.K.
World Rainforest Movement, Montevideo, Uruguay
World Resources Institute, Washington D.C., U.S.A.