General
Internet Directory for Botany
Plant Functional Ecology
General ecophysiology
Tree Physiology : How
two-thirds of the biosphere works
Plant Science Australia
Experimental Plant Ecology
(University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Plant Ecophysiology
(Pennsylvania State University)
General Stress Physiology
www.plantstress.com (outstanding
resource!)
Center for Environmental
Stress Physiology (Purdue University)
Horticultural
Stress physiology course (University of Washington)
Stress tolerance
in plants
Drought Stress
Physiology
of drought stressed plants
Flooding Stress
Anaerobic
stress
Responses
of woody plants to flooding and salinity (Review article)
Salinity Stress
Salinity and plant
tolerance
Salinity stress tolerance
engineering
Root Biology
Rhizosphere links
Penn State Root Biology
Root
growth and development (article)
Rhizobotany concept map
Plant
root engineering
Plant morphology and architecture
General
Morphology
and taxonomy of flowering plants (Basic)
Plant anatomy for ethnobotanists (Dr. David
Webb, University of Hawaii)
Plant anatomy course (Dr. David Webb,
University of Hawaii)
Plant diversity course (Great info.
and images of plant structural diversity, University of Hawaii)
Center
for plant architecture informatics
Fractal
ferns
Fibonacci numbers in plant form and in
other living (and nonliving) things:
1. JanusTeam: Interesting
website on Fibonacci patterns in plants.
2. Fibonacci
Numbers in Nature (outstanding website!)
3. Fibonacci
Numbers and Nature (another fascinating site)
4. Fibonacci
Numbers and the Golden Section
5. Fibonacci
Numbers and the Golden Section in Art, Architecture, and Music
During my senior year as an undergraduate,
I wrote a computer program to demonstrate the effects of
different divergence angles on primordia patterns on shoot apices.
I have created a page exhibiting two key patterns generated by that
program.
Plant Allometry (scaling relationships)
Scaling
in biology (Dr. Brian Enquist's lab at the University of New Mexico)
More
on scaling in biology (Dr. James Brown, University of New Mexico)
Biocomplexity,
includes link to successful NSF proposal for allometry research (Dr. James
Brown, University of New Mexico)
Allometric
scaling of plant energetics and population density (letters to Nature,
1998)
Karl
Niklas' home page at Cornell University (author of the book Plant
Allometry, 1994)
Plant Biomechanics
The making of plant
vascular systems - from single cell to supracell
Plant
Biomechanics Group-Freiburg (Drs. Thomas Speck and Hans-Christoph
Spatz)
Plant
biomechanics research page of Dr. Adrian Goodman (De Montfort University,
UK)
Karl
Niklas' home page at Cornell University (author of Plant Biomechanics,
1992)
Botanical Latin
1. Dictionary
of Botanica Epithets
2. "Words"
by William Whitaker (online Latin dictionary with ca. 30,000 entries)
3. Peter Bostock's
Home Page
4. Botanical Latin
Translations
Botanical Organizations
Societies
Botanical Society of
America
American Society of Plant
Biologists
Association for Tropical
Biology
Research Stations & Institutes
Smithsonian
Tropical Research Institute
Organization
for Tropical Studies
Institute
for Tropical Ecology and Conservation (Panama;
I took a course there during summer 2001)
Botanical Gardens
Florida
Fairchild
Tropical Garden (Miami, Florida)
Marie
Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, Florida)
Montgomery Botanical
Center (Miami, Florida)
Kampong
of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
(Coconut Grove, Florida)
Mounts Botanical
Garden (West Palm Beach, Florida)
Elsewhere
New York
Botanical Garden (Bronx, New York)
Missouri
Botanical Garden (St. Louis, Missouri)
National Tropical
Botanical Garden (Hawaii)
United States Botanic
Garden (Washington, D.C.)
University of California
Botanical Garden (Berkeley, California)
Royal
Botanic Garden Edinburgh (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew (West Sussex, England)
Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology Conservatory
(University of Connecticut)
Searchable online herbaria and other botanical
databases
1. International Plant
Names Index
2. W3TROPICOS
3. Andean Botanical Information
System
3.
New York Botanical Garden
4. Manual
de la Flora de Costa Rica
5.
Searchable Living Collections at Botanical Gardens
6. Atlas of Florida
Vascular Plants
7. Thomas Schoepke
Plant Image Gallery
8.
Checklist of World Ferns
9. Botanical
checklists and floras
Last updated
March 19, 2003