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Biodiversity Weblift
A Guide to Searchable Databases Online
About the Biodiversity Weblift
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weblift is intended for scientists, conservationists
and others who need information about species and
their distributions. Its primary goal is to provide
a convenient mechanism by which
resource
managers, scientists, conservationists, and citizens
can make queries on searchable databases and other
on-line resources that include information about
various.
The catalogue of biodiversity
databases is being assembled by searching existing
databases for key geographic terms. Institutions and
their appropriate databases are listed below when
they are found to include references to species from
localities in Haiti or its marine jurisdiction. All
of the resources that are listed below contain
information on Haitian biodiversity. We welcome
comments and input from users, whom we invite to
suggest additional databases that we have not yet
included. We are working to include data about all
taxa that occur in Haiti.
The links to biodiversity
resources given below will connect users directly to
the host institutions that maintain the databases.
Links are provided at two or three hierarchical
levels depending on the structure of the host
institution's web site. There is always a link to
the institution's homepage, and it should be
consulted by users who are visiting the host web
site for the first time. Whenever possible, we
provide a link at an intermediate level that gives
instructions for use of the search mechanism in that
institution. At the third level, there is a link
directly to the search form of the database. The
third-level connections will be convenient for
persons who are already familiar with online
searchable databases.
This weblift is part of a network
of websites that were designed to provide
Caribbean-based scientists and conservationists with
tools to access data of Caribbean origin no matter
where it is located. The Haitian Weblift is the
best one to use to find data specifically related to
Haiti. Those who are searching for data from
throughout the Caribbean should use the Caribbean
Biodiversity Weblift below. The network includes a
growing number of sites designed specifically to
access data relevant to other Caribbean countries,
each in the local language. They will be the most
useful tools for queries related to the biodiversity
of individual countries. |
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Scanned image of a
herbarium sheet showing a specimen of Stevensia
minutifolia collected in the Massif de la Selle,
Haiti. Detailed information about the specimen
including ecological information and mapping data
are available on-line from the Herbarium of the New
York Botanical Garden using the links below. Click
on the thumbnail to see a larger image. Courtesy of
the International Plant Science Center of
New York Botanical
Garden. |
Currently,
the network includes the following components:
Online Databases
that Contain Haitian Biodiversity Information
Multi-institutional resources:
NEODAT
- Inter-Instituional Database of Fish Biodiversity in the
Neotropics
Orthoptera
Species File
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List of databases
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Search Tettigonioidea, the katydids or bushcrickets
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Search Grylloidea, the crickets
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Search Acridomorpha, the grasshoppers and locusts
World List of Marine, Freshwater and
Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans
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Search the World List
of Isopods
Resources in universities, herbaria, and natural history
museums:
Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia
American Museum of Natural History
Auburn University,
Museum of Natural History
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About the fish collection
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Search fishes as guest (sign-in required)
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Search fishes (via
NEODAT; select AUM from the institution drop-down menu)
California
Academy of Sciences
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About the Botany Department
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Search the database of type specimens of vascular
plants
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About the Herpetology Department
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Search amphibians and reptiles
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About the Ichthyology Department
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Search the on-line Catalogue of Fishes, a guide to
current names of all fishes
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Search fish collection
(via NEODAT; select CAS from the institution drop-down
menu)
Cornell University,
Museum of Vertebrates
Field
Museum of Natural History
Florida
Museum of Natural History
Harvard University,
Museum of Comparative
Zoology
Muséum
National de l’Histoire Naturelle (database forms in
French and English)
Naturistoriska
RiksMuseet (in Swedish and English; some parts in
Spanish)
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About the fish collection
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Search fishes
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About the collection of botanical types
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Search the collection of botanical types
New
York Botanical Garden
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About the
herbarium and its databases
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Search the entire database of plants and fungi
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Search
vascular plants
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Search
type specimens of vascular plants of the West Indies
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Search
orchids of the West Indies
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Search
the flora of Navassa Island, West Indies
Royal Ontario Museum
Smithsonian Institution,
National Museum of Natural
History
University of Kansas,
Natural History Museum
University of Michigan,
Museum of Zoology
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About the fish catalogue searches
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Search
fishes
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About the collections of amphibians and reptiles
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Search
type specimens of amphibians and reptiles
Yale
Peabody Museum
The
weblift was developed in collaboration with
The
Center for Applied
Biodiversity Science at
Conservation International. |
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