Links: Tropical America
Selected links to information on Neotropical botany
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Dababase of woody plants of the cerrados of Brazil with distribution maps and images. Information on the biodiversity of the cerrado, conservation issues, and the history of its botanical exploration.
Smithsonian Institution
Datasheets of plant distribution and tables of information on floristic
species.
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Searchable database providing information on occurrence, distribution, endemism, altitude range, phenology, synonymy and references.
The Field Museum, Chicago
Information from floristic and systematic investigations of the
flowering plants of Andean South America. Selected geographic regions
and groups of Andean plants, flora of coastal Peru and Chile, floristic
inventories from a variety of habitats in northern Peru, bibliographic
resources and searchable databases.
The New York Botanical Garden
Searchable specimen catalogue and links to databasing projects
on plant biodiversity in North America, South America, the West
Indies, the Neotropics, and other vascular plants worldwide.
Botanical Research Institute of Texas
International, multidisciplinary team of scientists, students,
and Peruvian locals working between the Botanical Research Institute
of Texas (BRIT) and selected field and museum sites in Peru. Studies
of interactions between organisms and their environment at multiple
spatial scales in the Andes-Amazon region of southeastern Peru.
Missouri Botanical Garden
A collaborative effort between the Missouri Botanical Garden the
Instituto de Biología of the National Autonomous University
of Mexico (UNAM), the Natural History Museum, London, and numerous
specialists world-wide. In Spanish, the Flora describes, for the
first time, all the vascular plants growing in the southeasternmost
states of Mexico (including the Yucatán Peninsula) and all
the Central American republics.
Field Museum of Natural History
Desktop reference set of high-quality images of dried herbarium
specimens representing a broad range of Neotropical genera and common
species. A few examples of each species, focusing on specimens that
are typical or illustrative of that species. Current selection with
a bias toward Peruvian species.
The New York Botanical Garden
Output from collaborative research In the southwestern Amazonian
state of Acre, Brazil between The New York Botanical Garden and
the Parque Zoobotânico (PZ) of the Universidade Federal do
Acre (UFAC). Checklists, publications, common names index, miscellaneous
reports.
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Conservation and management of the biodiversity of the cerrado biome