World Conservation Monitoring Centre
Wiktionary - type a word in and get the translation in several languages
ILDIS - International Legume Database and Information Service
The Human Footprint - Wildlife Conservation Society
Specimen data - for Guyana, French Guyana and Suriname plus georeferencing information
Indian plant species - database of 930 indian plant species that are traded for their medicinal properties, but which are also of conservation concern
King's College Geodata portal - new datasets making use of Google Earth/maps, in particular RALUCIAPA, Conservation-Eye and Terrascope
BGCI IUCN assessment website - searches both the 2006 IUCN database and the 1997 database (no need to check in the 1997 Red List book - but check most recent IUCN database as it comes online)
BG-Base - searches 28 herbaria
Specimen data for southern Costa Rica - ZOBODAT, Austria - Costa Rican specimens from the Tropenstation, Piedras Blancas National Park, Puntarenas
National Herbarium of Colombia online collections - currently approx 25% of the collections are online, can search by genus/species/collector/types
Global Forest Watch - Interactive maps - useful for species in Alaska, Brazilian Amazon, Cameroon, Canada,
Central Africa, Congo, Indonesia, Russia or Venezuela, detailed maps with GIS layers relating to forests, some of the data can be downloaded
Mexican (and USA/Costa Rica/Peru) specimen data - links for all the herbaria in
Mexico, also in southern USA, such as Texas etc. Access all their databases at the bottom of the page -
"Access to the information", and output as comma delimited is great for copying and
pasting into wordpad and then adding to excel to convert
the degrees to decimals and adding to ArcMap
University of Reading Herbarium Specimens Online - great for Phanerogams: Europe, especially Great Britain and Ireland, the Iberian
Peninsula, North Africa (especially Morocco), Macaronesia, the Middle
East, cool temperate South America; Pteridophytes: worldwide;
Bryophytes: worldwide; Lichens: Europe, especially Great Britain and
Ireland, Morocco. Also has a Mediterranean Plants Identification and Distribution Link.
Database of Valencian flora (Spain) with mapping - click on "Buscador" to add genus/species name. Then Buscar and then on
the various symbols to see distribution maps, Legal status (E. legal -
i.e. in IUCN, habitat directives), photos etc.
Anthos - information on Spanish plants, with maps
ispecies - might be useful for assessments
