Botany
Getting Started
If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:
The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began in 2007 with the bold idea to provide "a webpage for every species." EOL brings together trusted information from resources across the world such as museums, learned societies, expert scientists, and others into one massive database and a single, easy-to-use online portal.
Encyclopaedia of Australian plants: suitable for cultivation
Botanica : the illustrated A-Z of over 10,000 garden plants
Flora of Australia (print and online)
Flora of south-eastern QueenslanD (print and online)
Native plants of Queensland, Keith Williams
Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (print and online)
Interpreting soil test results: what do all the numbers mean? (print and online)
Guidelines for Surveying Soil and Land Resources (print and online)
A dictionary of plant sciences (online)
Dictionary of plant genetics and molecular biology
The plant-book : a portable dictionary of the vascular plants (3rd ed.) (Mabberley)
The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Plant names : a guide to botanical nomenclature
The Penguin dictionary of plant sciences
Journal Articles
For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.
Maps
Specialised Resources
Australian Plant Phenomics Facility
The APPF is a national facility, available to all Australian plant scientists, offering access to infrastructure that is not available at this scale or breadth in the public sectors anywhere else in the world. The APPF is based around automated image analysis of the phenotypic characteristics of extensive germplasm collections and large breeding, mapping and mutant populations.
Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR)
The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR) collects information and maintains a database of genetic and molecular biology data for Arabidopsis thaliana, a widely used model plant.
PhytoChem Australia resource : a database on Australian plant chemistry 1940-2000
Australian Weed Identification & Information
Australian government Weeds in Australia site
Australia's Dynamic Land Cover
The National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset of Australia is the first nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference for Australia.
Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) - Queensland
Australian Soil Resource Information System - ASRIS
International Soil Reference and Information Centre provides soil datasets and maps on the local, national and global scale. A wider range of datasets can be queried using ISRIC's metadata service. In 2013 ISRIC opens a crowd souring framework for soil data storage. ISRIC invites individuals and organizations collecting soil data to contribute their data to this world soil database.
The Biota of North America Program (BONAP) maintains relatively complete phytogeographic and related botanical databases for all free-living vascular plants in North America (north of Mexico)
Web Sites
Provides linkages between all forms of information about Australian plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity information includes reference lists of species in different groups; databases of information on specimens held in natural history collections; databases of field observations from ecologists, naturalists and others; images and other multimedia; published literature (including digital versions); molecular data sets; identification keys; and a wide range of other databases and web sites.
The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. The eleventh edition of the Annual Checklist, contains 1,370,276 species, slightly over 2/3 of the world's known species.
Includes "Botanical resources" - tools providing information on Australia's flora for the general public and scientists.
Botany links from the Queensland Herbarium
Australian government - Environment Home
ePIC - Kew Electronic Plant Information Centre (incorporating Index Kewensis)
Index Nominum Genericorum (Plantarum)
The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled by expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.
Clearing-House Mechanism - Convention on Biological Diversity
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