Internet Directory for Botany - Algae, Bryophytes, Fungi

Algae

• Algae Gallery of the Chapman Lab, Department Plant of Biology, Louisiana State University, USA.
• Algaetech's Gateway to the Seaweeds of the Gulf of Maine. A comprehensive, one stop location for information on tne species, research, products, companies, agencies and regulations for the seaweed resource in the Gulf of Maine, USA.
• Algal Microscopy & Image Digitization Home Page. Bowling Green State University World Wide Web Center for Algal Microscopy & Image Digitization, USA. This Home Page has been created and is maintained by David W. Johnson, Department of Biological Sciences.
• Algal Physiology Web Pages, Portland State University, Oregon, USA.
• An introduction to nongeniculate coralline algae by Derek W. Keats, University of Western Cape, Botany Department, South Africa.
• Baltic Sea Algaline by Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Finland. The Finnish Institute of Marine Research delivers information on the phytoplankton in the Baltic Sea via Internet. The data comprises of recordings made unattended on several ferries and information from various research institutes and environmental authorities surrounding the Baltic Sea. The information will be updated at least on weekly basis.
• Brazilian National Catalogue of Strains - Algae, Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. The National catalogue presents algae from Brazilian culture collections.
• The British Phycological Society, UK.
• CCALA, Czechoslovak Database of Algae and Cyanobacteria, from Base de Bados Tropical Brazil. The online catalogue of algae and cyanobacteria is produced by the culture collection of autotrophic organisms at the Institute of Botany, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Trebon. Descriptions of cyanophytes, algae, mosses, liverworts, ferns and duckweeds are included.
• Checklist of phytoplankton in the Skagerrak-Kattegat (including heterotrophic protists) from the Department of Marine Botany, University of Göteborg, Sweden.
• The DIATOM-L (maintained in Indiana, USA) is an electronic distribution list of researchers involved with diatom ecology, taxonomy, paleoecology, and other Bacillariophycean pursuits. Subscribe at listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu by sending a message: subscribe diatom-l your_first_name your_last_name.
• European Journal of Phycology, UK.
• The Farlow Herbarium Diatom Catalog, Harvard, USA.
• The Grass of the Sea: Phytoplankton. Prepared by Mahlon Kelly, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Virginia, USA.
• Index of Algae Search Interface, Japan. A WAIS search directory of algae cultures in collections around the world.
• Information pertaining to to algae (Index Nominum Algarum demonstration, Indian Ocean benthic algae) by U.C Berkeley's University and Jepson Herbarium, California, USA.
• IPPAS, from Base de Dados Tropical, Brazil. IPPAS is the culture collection of microalgae at the K.A. Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Journal of Applied Phycology gopher, UK
• Paleolimnology & Diatom Home Pages, Biology Department, Indiana University, USA. Web pages designed to be a central web node for paleoecologists and diatomists to locate useful data, programs, information, etc. and connect to other useful Internet sites.
• People's Use of Algae. Developed by Dr. Iain Taylor, Department of Botany, University of British Columbia, Canada.
• The Phycological Society of America, USA.
• Phycological Society of Southern Africa
• The Plankton Net. Marine Plankton Ecology and Biological Oceanography Homepage, University of Guelph, Canada.
• Plankton Reactivity in the Marine Environment (PRIME), NERC Thematic Research Programme, UK.
• Provasoli-Guillard National Center for Culture of Marine Phytoplankton (Algae Aquaculture), McKown Point, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, USA.
• Seaweed Information Server - University College Galway, Ireland - ALGAE-L. ALGAE-L is a bulletin-board-type list to which you can subscribe if you are interested in any aspect of phycology. - Check-list of the Seaweeds of Britain, Ireland and Northern Europe. - Culture Collections of Algae. - Irish Seaweed, etc.
• University of Texas, Algae Culture Collection, USA. A searchable database of the over 2,100 strains of algae in the collection, an order form, and related information.

Bryophytes

• A List of the Bryophytes of Kentucky, with County Distributions, from gopher at Cornell, USA. Flora Online issue no. 15, 1988, by A. Snider, S. M. Studlar & M. Medley.
• ARCTOA is a Russian bryological journal, published in Moscow University. - (in Russian/partly in English).
• Australian Moss Catalogue, searchable from the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG), Canberra.
• Bryophytes Page at the Department of Plant Biology at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA:
• Checklist of Japanese Mosses, important collections (liverworts of Shikoku, mosses of Shikoku) and moss type specimens from KOCH, Kochi University Herbarium, Japan.
• Checklist of Mosses in Stuttgart. A checklist of mosses found since 1822 in the city of Stuttgart, SW Germany. Compiled by Uwe Schwarz, University of Stuttgart.
• Index of Mosses, Missouri Botanical Garden (St. Luis, USA; gopher). The records in this Gopher Server contain information about bryophytes from the TROPICOS - MOST Database at the Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) in St. Louis. The information comes from the bryophyte names authority files used for the Index of Mosses project. You can also search the Index of Mosses Bibliography and Missouri Botanical Garden Moss Types.
• International Bryological Information Service of the International Association of Bryologists. Established by Dr. Jan-Peter Frahm, Duisburg University, Germany. IBIS includes a selection of files and software library of the International Association of Bryologists. Index to available files, and a bryological information gopher search tool.
• Mosses of China from the Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, USA.
• Mosses of the former USSR. The database contains an electronic version of the Checklist of mosses of the former USSR (Ignatov, M.S. & O.M.Afonina, 1992 ) with the latest additions and corrections. It is maintained by Dr. Michael S. Ignatov, Russia, as a personal database on a PC. New versions of the database will be loaded to FLORIN at DataX/FLORIN site every two or three months.
• New York Botanical Garden Catalog of North American Bryophytes.The New York Botanical Garden is in the process of cataloging its approximately 200,000 specimens of bryophytes from North America (north of Mexico). These records will be made available family by family, as cataloging is completed. In February 1996 the family Lejeuneaceae (1500 records) is available through the Biodiversity and Biological Collections gopher, Cornell, USA.
• The World's Most Endangered Bryophytes (mosses and liverworts), B. C. Tan, P. Geissler and T. Hallingback Committee on Endangered Bryophytes IUCN Bryophyte Specialist Group/International Association of Bryologists. The official list of world's most endangered bryophytes was first published by IAB/IUCN in The Bryological Times (no. 77), 1994, with the purpose of generating publicity to promote bryophyte conservation on a worldwide basis. - From the server of the Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

Fungi

• Actinomycetes - Streptomyces Internet Resource Center, University of Minnesota, USA
• American Ginseng and Mycorrhizal Fungi from the University of Guelph, Canada.
• At Home in Oregon: What's Rex Up To Now? Truffles, mushrooms, Oregon State Parks, etc. by Rex Sartzendruber, USA:
• Brian McNett's Mycology On-Line FAQ. Gopher, USA.
• The British Mycological Society, UK.
• Checklist of Japanese Lichens recorded in floral studies since 1980, from the Department of Botany, Kochi University, Japan.
• Clamp Connexions, Howard Szafer, Canada. A conference devoted to the concerns of the amateur mycologist.
• CNYMS, Central New York Mycological Society Newsletter, Mycology, Mushrooms, and Club News, USA.
• Database LICHEN. Red List of the epiphytic lichens of Switzerland.
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Mykologie - The German Mycological Society, in German and partly in English; icluding the tables of contents of Zeitschrift für Mykologie (Journal of the German Mycological Society).
• Digital Exsiccate of Fungi, a joint project of the universities of Tübingen (Germany) and Gothenburg (Sweden).
• EcoNet's Mushroom & Mycology Resources - Econet's Mycology Archive (gopher), USA.
• Entomopathogenic Fungi Database by CENARGEN, National Center for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology, Brazil.
• Freshwater Ascomycete Database, University of Illinois, USA.
• Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Department of Microbiology, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, USA.
• The Fungi Imperfecti from University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, USA; a collection of pictures available for the mycologic "net" community to browse or use as an aid for identification.
• Fungi Perfecti
• Igor Malcevski's Home Page (a member of the Snohomish County Mycological Society (SCMS), in the state of Washington, USA). With information on the SCMS and its newsletters, links to mycological web sites etc.
• The International Culture Collection of Arbuscular and VA Mycorrhizal Fungi (INVAM), West Virginia University, USA.
• The International Mycological Association (IMA). The International Mycological Association (IMA) founded in 1971 represents the interests of 20,000 mycologists worldwide. It is a non-profit making organization, the purpose of which is the encouragement of mycology in all its branches. The International Mycological Association constitutes the Section for General Mycology of the International Union of Biological Societies (IUBS), the primary biological component of the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU).
• International Mycological Institute, London, UK.
• LIAS. A DELTA-based Information and Data Storage System for Lichenized and lichenicolous Ascomycetes edited by Botanische Staatssammlung München.
• Lichen Informations System, Salzburg, Austria.
• Lichens as Bioindicators from Global Lab, TERC, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
• Linköpings svampklubbs hemsida, Sweden. Mycological society of the town of Linköpinf (in Swedish).
• List of Fungi Reported from Brazil from Base de Dados Tropical (BDT), Brazil. This database consists of a list of Brazilian fungi recorded by the Brazilian mycologist A.C. Batista and his co-workers from the Institute of Mycology of the Recife University. The data source was the publication "Publicacoes do Instituto de Micologia da Universidade de Recife", which comprises 697 individual issues, from the early 50's to 70's. Altogether there are 7,826 records of Brazilian fungi, representing 2,770 binomials and trinomials in over 1,050 different genera in over 160 families.
• MA Herbarium Historical Fungus Collection, Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain.
• The Mushroom Experimental Station, Horst, the Netherlands. Agriculture, applied research, mushrooms, edible fungi, mycology, applied mycology, compost, agaricus.
• Mushroom Heaven by Lynne Reo Harris.
• Mushrooms on Sunset Blvd San Francisco, USA by Thomas Beutel.
• Mycelium. Maintained by Wayne Harrison, USA.
• mycoElectronica, John Dhabolt, USA.
• The Mycological Society of Toronto, Canada.
• Mycological Type Collection within the Herbarium of Oregon State University, USA.
• Mycology at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK.
• Mycologists Online, Cornell, USA. Mycologists Online is a running list of mycologists, lichenologists, fungal and lichenological herbaria and culture collections, editors of periodicals that publish papers on fungi and lichens, officials of national and international organizations, and contact persons for amateur societies accessible by E-mail.
• Mycology Resources of Smithsonian Institution, USA. Checklist of the Lichenized Fungi of the Guianas, Inoculum, Mycological Society of America Bulletin Board, MSA Directory, lichen and other types of U.S. National Herbarium.
• MycoPage by Marco Floriani, University of Trento, Italy. This page includes some interesting links to mycological resources on the Internet, plus a section with some basilar notions of mycology, a full description of some species and the abstracts of the articles published on the main Italian Mycological Reviews.
• Mycoteket, Uppsala University, Sweden - searchable culture collection
• Myko Web, USA. Myko Web is produced by Michael Wood, a past president of the Mycological Society of San Francisco. There is information on the Mycological Society of San Francisco, other North American Mycological Societies.
• Mushrooms of Slovenia
• Nathan Wilson's Fungi Photo Index from Venice, California, USA.
• Northeast Mycological Federation, Inc., USA.
• Plasmodiophorid Home Page, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio Uinversity, Athens, USA.
• Ralph's Finest Fungi Fancier File, Ralp Czerepinski, Michigan, USA.
• San Fransisco Bay Area Mushrooms by Michael Paul Thoma, USA.
• The Society for Actinomycetes Japan
• Spongospora Home Page, a place for information and communication exchange on different aspects of the pathogen Spongospora, maintained by the ETH Phytopathology Group in the Institute of Technology at Zürich, Switzerland.
• Spore Print, journal of the Los Angeles Mycological Society, USA (gopher).
• The state of taxonomy of the genus Armillaria, Harold H. Burdsall, Jr. and Thomas J. Volk, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Forest Service, U. S. D. A., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• Swedish Museum of Natural History - lichen collections. List of lichen taxa at the Department of Cryptogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Sydney Fungal Studies Group, Australia. The Sydney Fungal Studies Group is a loosely associated, non-profit, group of people who are interested in all aspects of fungi, and with an emphasis on Australasian fungi. The Group consists of mycological and other academics, students, and anyone else who might be interested.
• Tom Volk's Fungi, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Forest Products Lab, Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
• The University of West Indies Mycorrhizae Research Group
• U. S. Food and Drug Administration: Mushroom Toxins and Aflatoxins
• U.S. National Fungus Collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
• Virginia Tech Mycology Lab, USA, manages preserved fungal collections for the Virginia Tech Mycological Herbarium (VTMH) and fungal cultures for the Virginia Tech Culture Collection (VTCC). Collections include the Basidiomycetes, Ascomycetes, Zygomycetes, and Deuteromycetes. The greatest proportion of our collections and cultures are in the Agaricales (mushrooms).
• The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Mycology, a list of mycological resources on the Internet. Maintained by Kathie Hodge, Cornell, USA.
• Zoosporic Fungi Online, University of Maine, USA - by Mel Fuller and Joyce Longcore. This site will inform readers as to what is being done with zoospore-producing fungi, including our own research, and stimulate others to study these exciting fungi and fungus-like organisms.

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