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General Links
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Goal: to catalog ALL living creatures within the time span of one human generation (twenty-five years). |
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A five-year effort to reconstruct the evolutionary relationships among all green plants has resulted in the most complete "tree of life" of any group of living things on the planet, including animals. |
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As amended through December, 1996. |
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |
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was National Seed Storage Laboratory (NSSL). Name changed in 2001 |
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Including GRIN - Genetic Resources Information Network. |
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A repository of information on parasitic plants. |
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Contains news and features about threatened and endangered species. Includes access to species data. |
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Informative/Educational
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Interdisciplinary eco-cultural education and action programs for cities, neighborhoods and villages. Building community vitality in harmony with nature. |
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5 Web pages emphasizing the Hawaiian Islands and addressing topics like, Diversity & Extinction, Alien Invasion, and Vanishing Species. |
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Links to botanical educational ideas and projects from NBII (National Biological Information Infrastructure) for grades K-12. |
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From The National Parks Service. Beginning with 13 steps to tackling a restoration project and including many tips and references. |
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An article by Laurent Belsie in The Christian Science Monitor. |
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Links to activities and resources. Includes sections on Plants & Trees, Endangered Plants, etc. |
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Invaders of the Gateway Region is an innovative campaign whereby volunteer "citizen scientists" will be empowered to become involved in efforts to more effectively slow the spread of harmful invasive species. |
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Article by Richard Primack in Plant Talk On-Line. |
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Article by William K. Stevens in the New York Times. |
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Education resources, activities and projects related to plants for elementary school level. |
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Links to plant-related resources and activities for elementary-level students. |
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11 Web pages including topics of threats to plant species and reintroduction of plants. See page 8, Helping the Plants & page 9, Moving the Plants. |
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The Workshop on Linking Ecology and Horticulture to Prevent Plant Invasions |
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Land Trusts
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Balancing economic and environmental issues, this organization promotes solutions for joining business and community-based perspectives -- efficiently preserving America's legacy of wildlife habitat, working landscapes and community open-space. |
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Online Databases
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You can sign up to be a contributor to this database. Check the bottom of the search page. |
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Automated descriptions of Angiosperm families. Purports to include all families and a morphological description of each. |
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USDA Forest Service data about fire effects on plant and animal species. |
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GRIN taxonomic data provide the structure and nomenclature for the
accessions of the National Plant Germplasm System. |
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An authority file of names of recognized native and naturalized angiosperm taxa in the Hawaiian Islands. |
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A database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants. Its goal is to eliminate the need for repeated reference to primary sources for basic bibliographic information about plant names. |
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A database with information on species names and their hierarchical classification. Includes documented taxonomic information of flora and fauna from both aquatic and terrestrial habitats. |
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A source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. |
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A source of standardized information about plants from the USDA. The database focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. |
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A system for information exchange to enhance utilization of library resources and museum collections for rare plant conservation in the southeastern United States. |
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Species 2000 has the objective of indexing all the world's known species of plants, animals, fungi and microbes as the baseline dataset for studies of global biodiversity. |
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service regulatory profiles for listed species. Search by common or scientific name. Images and other information are often available. |
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Organizations - International
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An international agreement between governments to insure that internation in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. |
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Established to guide the development of the plant network within the Species Survival Commission (SCC) of The World Conservation Union (IUCN). |
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The Nature Conservancy is the world's largest private, international conservation group. |
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Formerly known as ABI. Natural Heritage Programs and species data. (See link for NatureServe Explorer in the Online Databases section.) |
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Organizations - National
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National Garden Clubs is a not-for-profit educational organization composed of 50 State Garden Clubs. |
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The Association does not own or manage any natural areas. It provides support and information services to persons concerned with the protection and long-term stewardship of natural areas. |
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The PCA is a consortium of ten federal government Member agencies and
over 145 non-federal Cooperators working to solve the problems of native
plant extinction and native habitat restoration. |
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The Society for Ecological Restoration is an international non-profit
organization of individuals and organizations who are actively engaged in ecologically-sensitive repair & management of ecosystems. |
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Organizations - State/Region
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Botanical gardens, universities and government agencies facilitating the recovery of rare, threatened, and endangered plants of Georgia and the southeast U.S. |
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NPAT is a non-profit membership organization dedicated to the conservation, restoration, and appreciation of native prairies in Texas and throughout the United States. |
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The research emphasis of this group is on ecosystem dynamics of arid and semiarid lands with special interest on microbial ecology and plant-microorganism relationships. |
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Publications/Online Journals
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Published by the Botanical Society of America and is also available online. |
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The Journal of the Society of Conservation Biology (SCB). |
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An electronic, peer-reviewed, scientific journal devoted to the rapid dissemination of current research. Content of the journal ranges from the applied to the theoretical. |
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Ecological Restoration is a quarterly print publication that provides a
forum for people interested in all aspects of ecological restoration.
(Formerly, Restoration & Management Notes) |
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A bimonthly publication by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. It provides news of developments in the endangered species program. |
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Published by the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. |
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Viewable/downloadable PDF version of a booklet published by the Missouri Department of Conservation. |
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Provides technical and practical information on growing and planting North American (Canada, US, and Mexico) native plants for restoration, conservation, reforestation, landscaping, roadsides, etc. |
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This journal publishes articles focusing on nature preserves, natural areas, state or national parks, rare and endangered species, land preservation, and theoretical approaches to natural area work. |
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Chapter 10 from the Flora of North America, Copyright © 2000 |
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Provides -- on a world scale -- information, encouragement and advice on
plant conservation. |
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Student online journal from the University of Minnesota commencing with Volume 1, Spring 1996. |
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Through the quarterly journal Wild Earth, other publications, and advocacy, the Wild Earth Society works to foster a culture of conservation and shape the latest thinking in conservation science, philosophy, politics, and activism. |
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North America's magazine of wild flora. |
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State Native Plant Societies
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State Natural Heritage Programs
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Web Lists of Endangered Plants
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Separate list of endangered and threatened species for each state/territory. |
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