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This is my last post about Scratchpads. Here you can find some Scratchpads of Divulgative Websites and Resources Providers divided in:
- Collection techniques, herbarium, museums, and libraries.
- Dna Barcoding, Molecular Biology and Related.
- Historical Scratchpads.
- Another Resources.
- Collection techniques, herbarium, museums, and libraries.
- Dna Barcoding, Molecular Biology and Related.
- Historical Scratchpads.
- Another Resources.
If you want to:
- know what is Scratchpad. Visit my post or the official webpage.
- See a summary of Scratchpads by subjects go the post:
Este es mi ultimo post acerca de Scratchpads. Aquí encontrará algunos Scratchpads divulgativos y con algunas herramientas útiles, divididos en: - Técnicas de colecta, herbarios, museos y bibliotecas.
- Códigos de barras de DNA, Biología Molecular y relacionados.
- Históricos
- Otros recursos.
Si quiere:
- Saber que es Scratchpad. Visite mi post al respecto o la página web oficial.
- Ver una recopilación de Scratchpads vaya al sitio que le llame la atención:
- Scratchpads por grupos taxonómicos Parte I: Magnoliids y monocotiledóneas
- Scratchpads por Grupos Taxonómicos Parte II: Eudicots
- Scratchpads por Grupos Taxonómicos Parte III: Otros Grupos
- Scratchpads de Proyectos en Regiones Biogeográficas Específicas
COLLECTION TECHNIQUES, HERBARIUM, MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
Countless natural history treasures are deposited in museums across the world, many hidden away beyond easy access. The OpenUp! project creates a free access to these resources, offering over one million items belonging to the world’s biodiversity heritage. The objects made available through OpenUp! consist of high quality images, videos and sounds, as well as natural history artworks and specimens, and also include many items previously inaccessible to visitors. Information provided through OpenUp! is checked by scientists and made available through the Europeana portal at www.europeana.eu.
Natural Science Collections
This is a page to connect the people with the natural science collections throughout the UK, sharing the many values of natural science collections in research, science, museum practice, engagement and education. This page hopes that all people, in particular non-science curators that have natural science collections, find this space a useful place to explore the uses and maintenance of natural science collections, find helpful resources and links to museums, representative organisations, and training opportunities.
Start your exploration by reading a series of blogs by natural science collection professionals on a variety of subjects from developing conservation training for front of house staff to UK museums collaborating, and insights into bird sound collections.
This website is developed to provide community-driven curation tools to engage the biodiversity community in crowd-sourcing based collaborative activities, e.g., taxonomic name curation and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) error correction in the scanned biodiversity literature.
This website will support the JISC-Funded ComTax Project, A Community-driven Curation Process for Taxonomic Databases, in the Open University (OU), UK. This project aims to develop and establish a community-driven curation process among practising taxonomists. The project will combine recommending new texts to users with an online verification process in order to engage the biodiversity community in collaborative taxonmic database curation. Potential undiscovered taxonomic names with associated taxonomic descriptions are automatically extracted from biodiversity literature and are presented to a wide range of taxonomic curators. Multiple human judgements are collected for taxonomic name validation.
The project deliverables will facilitate and improve the curation process by developing an automated tool to exploit historic legacy of scientific literature and providing a Scratchpad-based web service to allow biodiversity researchers work collaboratively as a team.
To learn more about this Project, please visit our OU project website, ComTax Project.
Open Technology for Biodiversity
Open Source Data Loggers is a project to develop Open Hardware and Open Source Software tools for biodiversity scienctists that integrate into the existing landscape of biodiveristy informatics.
This is the webpage for the Herbarium Techniques and Biodiversity Conservation Course, run by the curators and botanists working in the herbarium at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. It sets out what the course is about, information about their past courses and also acts as a focal point for contact for their past participants. They will also deposit digital copies of their newsletter for participants on this site.
The London Natural History Society Library is located in the Angela Marmont Centre at the the Natural History Museum. Their library is available for reference by both members of the LNHS and the general public; books can be borrowed by LNHS members.
There is shelving space for about half of the collection, and so they have put all the books on the open shelves, together with a selection of periodicals. Complete runs of the Society's own periodicals (The London Naturalist and London Bird Report) are available for reference.
They have basic arrangements for lending books to members, and any member who needs to borrow a specific work should contact the Librarian at lnhs.library@gmail.com. You can consult an online spreadsheet of the library holdings to search for individual works. If you wish to consult a specific work then contact the Librarian.
There is shelving space for about half of the collection, and so they have put all the books on the open shelves, together with a selection of periodicals. Complete runs of the Society's own periodicals (The London Naturalist and London Bird Report) are available for reference.
They have basic arrangements for lending books to members, and any member who needs to borrow a specific work should contact the Librarian at lnhs.library@gmail.com. You can consult an online spreadsheet of the library holdings to search for individual works. If you wish to consult a specific work then contact the Librarian.
DNA BARCODING, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND RELATED
The Belgian Network for DNA Barcoding aims at establishing a research network that provides an integrated and multidisciplinary molecular systematic and DNA barcoding task force. The network will:
1. coordinate the efforts and knowledge in the field of molecular systematics and DNA barcoding in Belgium
2. exchange experience and provide training opportunities for people in the field of molecular systematics and DNA barcoding
3. stimulate joint reseach in animal and plant groups where molecular systematics and DNA barcoding plays a pivotal role
4. centralize and integrate DNA barcoding activities in Belgium in international initiatives such as the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL) and the International Barcode of Life project (iBOL).
The Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU) is an integrated research infrastructure funded by the Belgian Science Policy and supported by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS, Brussels) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren). JEMU aims at supporting scientific research on natural history collections in the fields of DNA barcoding, phylogeny reconstruction and archiving biological specimens.
eFLOWER is a collaborative scientific project aimed at answering key questions on the evolution of flowers:
– What were flowers like in deep nodes of the angiosperm tree?
– Which floral innovations are linked with major increases in diversification rates?
– How are floral characters correlated with one another?
– To what extent has floral diversification been driven by pollination?
– Where do fossil flowers fit on the phylogeny of extant angiosperms?
To answer these questions, we are building a database of floral traits for a large sample of angiosperm species using an exemplar approach. To learn more about this database, click here: What is PROTEUS?
1. coordinate the efforts and knowledge in the field of molecular systematics and DNA barcoding in Belgium
2. exchange experience and provide training opportunities for people in the field of molecular systematics and DNA barcoding
3. stimulate joint reseach in animal and plant groups where molecular systematics and DNA barcoding plays a pivotal role
4. centralize and integrate DNA barcoding activities in Belgium in international initiatives such as the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), the European Consortium for the Barcode of Life (ECBOL) and the International Barcode of Life project (iBOL).
The Joint Experimental Molecular Unit (JEMU) is an integrated research infrastructure funded by the Belgian Science Policy and supported by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS, Brussels) and the Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA, Tervuren). JEMU aims at supporting scientific research on natural history collections in the fields of DNA barcoding, phylogeny reconstruction and archiving biological specimens.
A framework for understanding the evolution and diversification of flowers
– What were flowers like in deep nodes of the angiosperm tree?
– Which floral innovations are linked with major increases in diversification rates?
– How are floral characters correlated with one another?
– To what extent has floral diversification been driven by pollination?
– Where do fossil flowers fit on the phylogeny of extant angiosperms?
To answer these questions, we are building a database of floral traits for a large sample of angiosperm species using an exemplar approach. To learn more about this database, click here: What is PROTEUS?
eFLOWER is coordinated by a pilot group of 14 researchers from six countries. To learn more about who we are, click here: Who are we?
eFLOWER is still in its early stages. Once our database server is running smoothly, we will welcome contributions from other interested researchers.
This Scratchpad is a gateway for data and new results produced as part of the Decoding NAture project. The Decoding NAture project enables school children to play a key part in current research in collaboration with NHM scientists on biological diversity. Data gathered over the course of residential programs at the Old Malthouse in Dorset will be uploaded to the Scratchpad so that students and others can see their results. The data will then be exported to the online rescource: Barcode of Life Data Systems (BOLD) for the wider research community.
...a data gateway for educational DNA barcoding
Navigate to the different schools from the home page by clicking on the school name and you will find the description of the research project and the results from each school.
This site contains Red List conservation assessments completed as part of the Sampled Red List Index for Plants project.
The Red List Index is our barometer of life, and tells us the status of biodiversity, how this changes over time and measures the extinction risk of a species. As plants are such a huge and diverse group, the Sampled Red List Index for Plants has randomly selected a sample of 7,000 out of the worlds 380,000 known plant species, which gives us a representative picture of the overall group.
In 2010 the first phase of the SRLI for Plants project revealed that one in five plants are threatened with extinction, and around a third of plants are so poorly known that we do not know if they are threatened or not.
ANOTHER RESOURCES SCRATCHPADS
The Red List Index is our barometer of life, and tells us the status of biodiversity, how this changes over time and measures the extinction risk of a species. As plants are such a huge and diverse group, the Sampled Red List Index for Plants has randomly selected a sample of 7,000 out of the worlds 380,000 known plant species, which gives us a representative picture of the overall group.
In 2010 the first phase of the SRLI for Plants project revealed that one in five plants are threatened with extinction, and around a third of plants are so poorly known that we do not know if they are threatened or not.
Please register and post a comment if you know anything relating to the conservation status of a species from the sample. Please note that all assessments are pending approval for listing on the IUCN Red List website, unless otherwise stated.
For more information about the project see 'Plants at Risk'. Also see the Plants Under Pressure report.
This is the home of the University of Reading Phenological Monitoring Network. Here you can search and access all of our stored data of phenological recordings. Find out what you can do to help with our phenological recordings.
This site serves as a repository for common (or vernacular names) for any species or species group in any language.
For more information about the project see 'Plants at Risk'. Also see the Plants Under Pressure report.
This is the home of the University of Reading Phenological Monitoring Network. Here you can search and access all of our stored data of phenological recordings. Find out what you can do to help with our phenological recordings.
How many of them are there?
Mycoheterotrophic plant species (MHP, Leake 1994) lack chlorophyll and depend on their mycorrhizal fungus for carbon and nutrient supply. This website aims to set up a list of all mycoheterotrophic plants on earth, combined with additional informations such as synonymy, pictures and a bibliography. So far, the list of accepted species with taxonomic comments as well as synonyms (listed above the accepted taxa, both in alphabetic order) are complete except for Orchidaceae. The bibliography (more than 1000 references) collects the bibliographic data of the taxonomic literature mentioned up to now, as well as other articles dealing with all aspects of mycoheterotrophic plants. The citations in the taxonomic comments (pages) are hyperlinked with the bibliographic data.
The criterium to be included in this list is "optical achlorophylly" or at least nearly such. We are aware of intergrading dependences on the mycorrhizal fungus even in green plants (see the pages The case of "Pyrola aphylla", Obolaria and Bartonia or Stemona aphylla), as well as of different amounts of chlorophyll content, which often is even hidden by other colouring compounds.
HISTORICAL SCRATCHPADS
This website is intended to be an island of accurate information in the sea of misinformation about Wallace. It contains information about Wallace's life and work, a unique archive of Wallace-related images, FAQ's debunking some of the many myths surrounding Wallace and Darwin, plus information about the A. R. Wallace Memorial Fund and its projects.
The content on this site was written by evolutionary biologist, entomologist and Wallace scholar Dr George Beccaloni (aka 'Wallace's Rottweiler').
This ongoing project, based at the Natural History Museum, London, aims to locate, digitize, transcribe and interpret the surviving correspondence and manuscripts of the great 19th century naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913). Wallace has many claims to fame, not least that he is the 'father' of evolutionary biogeography and the co-discoverer with Charles Darwin of the process of evolution by natural selection. For more information about his life and work CLICK HERE.
This site develop species accounts for organisms collected by Charles Darwin and mentioned in his works.
This site act as a forum for all aspects on the voyage of H.M.S. "Challenger", from its scientists and crew, to the specimens collected.
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