LUCID identification keys

Infopest (Growcom)

Infopest is a comprehensive database of registered Australian chemicals. Previously produced by the Qld Dept of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation (DEEDI), Infopest is now owned and managed by Growcom. Provides accurate, up-to-date information for the effective control of weeds, pests and diseases in a wide range of crops and livestock.

International Plant Protection Convention - IPPC

The IPPC develops International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures (ISPMs) for safeguarding plant resources including: procedures and references; pest surveillance, survey and monitoring; import regulations and pest risk analysis; compliance procedures and phytosanitary inspection methodologies; pest management; post entry quarantine; exotic pest emergency response, control and eradication; and export certification. IPPC also provides information exchange related to import and export requirements, pest status and regulated pest lists provided by each member country and Regional Plant Protection Organizations.

World Biodiversity Database - arthropod and other projects

See also the option to search across all projects.

World Taxonomist Database

CSIRO Biosecurity Flagship

Australia's Virtual Herbarium

Australian Tropical Herbarium

Global Plants Site (ongoing)

Photographed plant type specimens from over 300 herbaria world-wide will be available for open access viewing.

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

Plant specialists index

Index herbariorum 8th ed.

Australian Weed Identification & Information

Australian government Weeds in Australia site

Queensland weeds 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

ISRIC World Soil Information

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.

North American Plant Atlas

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)

Australia, state of the environment

Species Profile and Threats Database

Australian Marine Zooplankton: a taxonomic guide and atlas

ZooBank

ZooBank is intended as the official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).

Nomenclator Zoologicus

Nomenclator Zoologicus is a continuous record of the bibliographical origins of the names of every genus and subgenus in zoology published since the 10th ed. of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae in 1758 up to 1994 in nine volumes. Names are listed alphabetically, with a bibliographic reference to the original description of each one and an indication of the animal group to which it belongs. There are an estimated 340,000 genera represented in the text as well as approximately 3000 supplemental corrections. This version of the data is very accurate but the conversion process may have introduced some errors in the digital record.

Index Animalium

Sherborn's Index Animalium is a compendium of zoological taxonomic species nomenclature from 1758 to 1850. For each species described in this period it clearly lists the genus name, author, publication, pages, and date.The scientific names of animals are indexed in three different sources, which complement each other. Sherborn's Index Animalium covers all the names from the start (1758) to 1850; the Zoological Record, an annual index, started in 1864 and continues to present. The third source is Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus, which provide an index of genus-group names. Other community efforts are underway to provide digital access to the names in the Zoological Record and Neave. Hence, Sherborn remains the only index that will not have been converted.

Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology

The Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology (ICMVZ) is an historic compendium of parasitological literature and a key resource for researchers in emerging diseases and global animal health. It comprises more than 100 publications with about 20,000 pages of references.With funding from the US National Library of Medicine, Oklahoma State University and Texas A & M digitized the Index-Catalogue and made it freely available online and electronically searchable.

Nomenclator Zoologicus

Nomenclator Zoologicus is a continuous record of the bibliographical origins of the names of every genus and subgenus in zoology published since the 10th ed. of Linnaeus' Systema Naturae in 1758 up to 1994 in nine volumes. Names are listed alphabetically, with a bibliographic reference to the original description of each one and an indication of the animal group to which it belongs. There are an estimated 340,000 genera represented in the text as well as approximately 3000 supplemental corrections. This version of the data is very accurate but the conversion process may have introduced some errors in the digital record.

Index Animalium

Sherborn's Index Animalium is a compendium of zoological taxonomic species nomenclature from 1758 to 1850. For each species described in this period it clearly lists the genus name, author, publication, pages, and date.The scientific names of animals are indexed in three different sources, which complement each other. Sherborn's Index Animalium covers all the names from the start (1758) to 1850; the Zoological Record, an annual index, started in 1864 and continues to present. The third source is Neave's Nomenclator Zoologicus, which provide an index of genus-group names. Other community efforts are underway to provide digital access to the names in the Zoological Record and Neave. Hence, Sherborn remains the only index that will not have been converted.

Bacterial nomenclature up-to-date

WFCC-MIRCEN World Data Centre for Microorganisms

GMID (Global Market Information Database) - Key database for global consumer market analysis. Provides time series statistics by country and market.

IBISWorld - IBISWorld Industry Market Reports provide strategic insights and analysis on over 500 Australian industries.

Margaret Gee's Australian media guide - detailed entries on more than 16,000 media contacts and 2,500 media outlets

Safety Data

ChemWatch - Chemgold III (includes material safety data sheets)

The Sigma-Aldrich library of chemical safety data

Sax's dangerous properties of industrial materials

Atlas of Living Australia

The Atlas of Living Australia contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.

Species Profile and Threats Database

The database is designed to provide information about species and ecological communities listed under the Australian Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. It provides information on what the species looks like, its population and distribution, habitat, movements, feeding, reproduction and taxonomic comments. The information has been compiled by summarising information from a range of sources and contributors. Profiles are not available for all species and ecological communities, but will be regularly added to the database.

EDGAR (JCU and ALA) - mapping bird species and climate change

Australian Heritage database

20,000 natural, historic and Indigenous places in: World Heritage List, National Heritage List, Commonwealth Heritage list, Register of the National Estate, Overseas Places of Historic Significance to Australia, under consideration, or that may have been considered for, any one of these lists.

World database on protected areas

Foundation dataset for conservation decision making, ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis, and is increasingly used for private sector decision-making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats.\

CRC CARE

The Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment is an independent organisation that performs research, develops technologies and provides policy guidance for assessing, cleaning up and preventing contamination of soil, water and air.

Environmental Fate Database

Several databases on persistent chemicals.

Australian Policy Online - Environment

Institute for Sustainable Futures

Solutions that consider the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability.

Population-Environment Research Network

PERN seeks to advance academic research on population and the environment by promoting online scientific exchange among researchers from social and natural science disciplines worldwide.

Rocky Mountain Institute

RMI's strategic focus is mapping and driving the business-led transition from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewable energy, with a focus on the transportation, building, industrial and electricity sectors.

Breakthrough Institute

Politics and the environment. Breakthrough Institute was founded in 2003 'on the premise that the complaint-based, interest group liberalism born in the 1960s and 1970s was failing to achieve the broad social and ecological transformations America and the world need.'

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

Forests Australia

PANGAEA Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science

PANGAEA is operated as an Open Access library aimed at archiving, publishing and distributing georeferenced data from earth system research. The system guarantees long-term availability of its content through a commitment of the operating institutions.

New Mechanisms Information Platform

Mechanisms and evaluation of GHG emission reductions or removals by developing countries including: UN Framework Convention on Climate Change NAMAs (nationally appropriate mitigation actions), REDD and REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest degradation in Developing countries) and other actions.

Australian child support cases

Australian De Facto Relationships Commentary

Australian family law cases