The Diversity of Life

Click on some part of the taxonomic tree and learn more about a particular group of organisms. Rich source of links, and growing all the time.

American Museum of Natural History (http://www.amnh.org)

Animal Diversity Web University of Michigan Museum of Zoology: (http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu)

Plant Diversity Penn State University (http://hortweb.cas.psu.edu:800/hort131)

A Survey of the Plant Kingdom Manhattan College and the College of Mount Saint Vincent (http://web1.manhattan.edu/fcardill/plants/intro/)

Ark Animals Magazine (Exotic and Captive Wildlife) (http://www.arkanimals.com)

The Microbial Underground (contains medical, molecular biological, and microbiological material; site is not being updated, thus some information is outdated, but the site contains some useful links to on-line journals; Louisiana State University Medical School): (http://www.medschool.lsumc.edu/Micr/mirror/public_html/index.html)

Virtual Museums

American Museum of Natural History research collections (http://www.amnh.org/research)

Hayden Planetarium (http://www.haydenplanetarium.org)

National Museum of Natural History [part of Smithsonian] (http://www.mnh.si.edu/rc/db/colldb.html). Biodiversity in Hawaii (http://rathbun.si.edu/botany/pacificislandbiodiversity/hawaiianflora/index.htm)

Missouri Botanical Garden (http://www.mobot.org) Use W³Tropicos link.

Morton Arboretum, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago Botanic Garden; Virtual Herbarium of plants from the Chicago area (http://www.vplants.org)

University of California at Berkeley

Amphibiaweb (http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw)
Mammal Networked Information System (http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis)

University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center (http://www.speciesanalyst.net)