This page is under construction and subject to significant revision. #sidebar TableOfContents

• Species Distributions
• Geographic Regions
• Flora
• Fauna
• Glossaries/Vocabularies
• Occurrence Status
• GROMS
• Distribution Sources
• Species Profile
• Migration
• GROMS
• Ecological Indicators
• Lifeform
• Botany
• zoology
• Bacteria
• Publication related
• Potential sources
• Software
• Tree Visualisations
• JIT
• Name parsing

Why Taxonomy Matters

Species Distributions

Current ECAT distribution extension: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r4I1G8E7mDIgY_kt9Rxyc8A&gid=2

Geographic Regions

Flora

• TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions
• http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/GeographicRegion.rdf
• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/geo2.htm
• http://www.kew.org/gis/tdwg/
• Floristic kingdoms (Ronald Good)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochorion#Floristic_kingdoms
• Takhtajan's floristic provinces
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytochorion#Takhtajan.27s_floristic_provinces
• Ecoregions WWF
• http://www.panda.org/about_our_earth/ecoregions/ecoregion_list/
• http://www.natura.org/biogeographicregions.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeographic_Region

Fauna

• http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~etaylor/413www/413outlnew.html
• ISO Countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Glossaries/Vocabularies

• http://www.sel.barc.usda.gov/SCALENET/glossary.htm
• http://www.biologybrowser.org/nomglos_AZ.html
• Nomenclatural Status

Occurrence Status

• http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted_sites/tdwg/poss_standard.html
• Euro+Med: http://ww2.bgbm.org/EuroPlusMed/explanations.asp
• http://www.emplantbase.org/down/documents/DatastructureV1.pdf
• http://www.emplantbase.org/down/documents/Data_standards_Version2-8.pdf
• Fauna Europaea: http://www.faunaeur.org/documents/FaEu_Guidelines_v4.0.1.pdf

GROMS

• 0
• all year round
• breeding
• feeding, wintering
• general distribution
• moulting
• non breeding summer
• prior wintering area
• resident
• sightings
• staging areas

Distribution Sources

• Atlas Florae Europaeae: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/english/botany/afe/index.htm
• Fauna Europaea: http://www.faunaeur.org/distribution.php

Species Profile

Current ECAT profile: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=r4I1G8E7mDIgY_kt9Rxyc8A&gid=4

Migration

GROMS

• anadromous
• data deficient
• Groms migrant
• intercontinental
• interoceanic
• intracontinental
• intraoceanic
• local migrant
• nomadising
• non migratory
• oceanodromous
• partial
• possibly migratory
• Possibly migratory
• potamodromous
• range extension
• technical migrant

Ecological Indicators

• Ellenberg: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeigerwerte_nach_Ellenberg

Lifeform

Botany

• Raunkiær: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raunkiær_plant_life-form

zoology

??? flying, aerob

Bacteria

• Morphology
• cocci
• bacilli
• vibro
• spirilla
• spirochaetes

Publication related

Potential sources

• http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
• Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/

Software

Tree Visualisations

• http://itol.embl.de/
• software list for visualisation and manipulations of Trees: http://bioinfo.unice.fr/biodiv/Tree_editors.html

JIT

• http://thejit.org/
• SpaceTree allows dynamic loading of nodes: http://thejit.org/Jit/Examples/Spacetree/example2.html
• http://groups.google.com/group/javascript-information-visualization-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/8f88c97d90b550a9
• hypertree, great, but presently cant dynamically load data: http://thejit.org/Jit/Examples/Hypertree/example1.html
• http://christ.bouthier.free.fr/

Name parsing

curl -H "Content-Type: application/xml" \
-i -X POST -d \
'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<names>
Betula verucosa
Homo sapiens
</names>' \
http://globalnames.org/parsers