http://www01.wsl.ch/species/index.html
Glossary of Dendrochronology
http://www01.wsl.ch/glossary/index.html

The Dendrochronology Species Database was composed by Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, a Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee. The database "currently contains the names of over 1,100 tree and shrub species for which tree rings have been analyzed in the published literature." Records include the authority and scientific and common name(s) for each species. For species with available data in the International Tree-Ring Data Bank (ITRDB), records provide an ITRDB Code, and a link to the ITRDB website. The second site is an online adaptation of the Multilingual Glossary of Dendrochronology compiled by Michèle Kaennel Dobbertin of the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research. The original Glossary involved "53 scientists who participated in the definition and translation of 351 terms in 7 languages; English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Russian." In addition to terms, the online glossary includes references, a list of contributors, and a User Guide. [NL]

http://130.225.211.158/svampebase/Data-fungi.htm

The Database of Fungi is one of several databases offered by the University of Copenhagen's Botanical Museum and Library. The Database "includes at present c. 34,000 records of collections from the fungal herbarium." Collection records include entries for scientific and Danish names, locality, country of origin, and more. The database is updated twice yearly to account for taxonomic and nomenclature changes resulting from new molecular research. Although the entry categories for each record are in Danish, they are not difficult to interpret. Moreover, the database search engine provides English translations for the various search fields. [NL]

http://ant.edb.miyakyo-u.ac.jp/E/index.html

The 2003 revised edition of the Japanese Ant Image Database was developed under the direction of the Japanese Ant Database Group (JADG). The website, which merges taxonomic information and stunning photographs, will no doubt delight myrmecologists and others. Information about different types of ants can be accessed through browseable, hyperlinked lists organized by subfamily, genus, and species. Genus and species profiles include images, references, descriptive information, simple distribution maps, and more. The site includes a Japanese Ant Image Library with hundreds of quality images, and a smaller SEM Image Library as well. The site also offers sections with Type Specimens and Taxonomic Keys. Please note that the site has not been updated since 2003; there are future plans to revisit the project when updates and corrections become necessary. [NL]

http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/databases/herps/intro.htm

The University of Florida Herpetology Collection Master Database currently contains 137,936 records. The Database search engine offers fields for common and scientific name, as well as Country or Nation; State or Department; County or Province; and Collection Month and Year. Users can select up to 200 records per page, and request a Table or Report output style. Specimen loans are available to permanent staff members at institutions, but not to individuals. In addition to information about specimen loans from the Herpetology Collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Collection site contains concise information about data requests, and specimen dissections. [NL]

http://www.msb.unm.edu/mammals/

The Mammal Collection at the University of New Mexico's Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) "contains over 118,000 specimens, mostly from the southwestern United States, Mexico, Central and South America, but there are also large holdings from other portions on North America, Japan, Africa, and Eurasia." MSB offers a searchable database of the Mammal Collection with search fields for Order, Family, Species, Continent/Ocean, Country, Sex, Season, and more. MSB specimen loans are available to "researchers at established, scientifically recognized institutions." Site visitors will appreciate the extensive list of mammal-related publications from 1994-2004, with many of the papers from recent years available in downloadable format. MSB staff contact information, and related links are provided as well. [NL]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/projects/CCDS/index.html#ccdsProcess

The Consensus CoDing Sequence (CCDS) Database "project is a collaborative effort to identify a core set of human protein-coding regions that are consistently annotated and of high quality. The long-term goal is to support convergence toward a standard set of gene annotations on the human genome." CCDS project collaborators include the National Center for Biotechnology (NCBI), European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI), and University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The CCDS site links to four Genome Displays from the collaborating institutions including Ensembl Genome Browser, UCSC Genome Browser, NCBI Map Viewer, and Vega Genome Browser. The site offers Human CCDS Statistics, and a search engine that allows users to search by Nucleotide ID, Gene ID, Protein ID, and CCDS ID. [NL]

http://www.wildflorida.org/critters/panther/Beier-Panther-SRT.pdf

Housed in the archives of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) website, this December 2003 report, entitled An Analysis of Scientific Literature Related to the Florida Panther, was developed by a team of independent biologists commissioned by the FWC and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The authors of the 203-page (pdf) document "critically reviewed scientific literature on Florida panther to identify strengths and weaknesses of existing research, and to recommend future analyses and research priorities." Major headings include Habitat, Prey, Genetics, Demography, Biomedical, and Management Recommendations. Zoologists will surely appreciate the extensive Annotated Bibliography of Literature on the Florida panther, which constitutes a substantial portion of the publication. [NL]

http://cramp.wcc.hawaii.edu/_Bibliography/default.asp

This coral reef-related Bibliographic Database was developed by the Hawaii Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring Program (CRAMP). CRAMP conducts research "designed to identify the controlling factors, both natural and anthropogenic, contributing to the stability, decline, or recovery of Hawaiian reefs. The CRAMP "Bibliographic Database contains listings for published and unpublished documents concerned with the coral reefs and inshore marine resources of Hawaii." More than 2,500 references are currently housed in the database, and records conveniently include abstracts. The Bibliography Search Form offers search fields for Author, Title, Source, Keywords, Year, and more. In addition, searches can be narrowed to specific Hawaiian site locations such as Oahu, Lanai, Molokai, and Maui. [NL]