Research

Links

Botanic gardens
Botany and Herbaria
Climate change
Conservation of species
Entomology
Horticultural science
Hazardous plants
Plant pathology
Soils & soil science
Taxonomy & nomenclature

Aquatic plants & water gardening
Conservation of garden plants
Horticultural and ornamental specialists
Natural environment
Sustainable horticultural practices

Botanic gardens

National Botanic Garden of Wales/Gardd Fotaneg Genedlaethol Cymru, Carmarthenshire, Britain's newest botanic garden

National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Ireland

Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, includes online databases

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, includes several online databases

Botany and Herbaria

PlantNet, an association for all those involved in plant collections.

Internet Directory for Botany: Search facilities enabling exploration of the largest botany databases in the world.

Botanical Society of America

Harvard University Herbaria databases: (includes plant collectors)

Index Herbariorum: Index to the world's herbaria

Taxonomy and nomenclature

International Code of Botanical Nomenclature, (online version of the Tokyo Code)

New World plants: Gray Card Index

TROPICOS

International Plant Names Index: a collaboration between Kew, Harvard University Herbarium & Australian National Herbarium

T-LAN (Taxonomy of Landscape Plants): Horticultural taxonomy resource with many links.

Climate change

National Trust Statement on climate change

UK Climate Impacts Programme

Climate Change and Demand for Water (CCDeW)
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (formerly DETR) commissioned a consortium to evaluate the impact of climate change on the demand for water in England and Wales. The project began in June 2000 and produced the final report in February 2003. For a copy of the report click here

Conservation of wild species

The four statutory UK agencies for nature conservation are:

Countryside Council for Wales

English Nature

Northern Ireland Environment & Heritage Service

Scottish Natural Heritage

Other sites concerned with aspects of conservation include:

Convention on Biological Diversity, UK implementation

Convention on International Trade in Endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

HM Government CITES

Friends of the Earth, major environmental pressure group

International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)

Plantlife

Scottish Environment Link, liaison body for voluntary sector environmental organisations in Scotland

World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), information services on conservation of global natural resources

WCMC Threatened Plants database

Entomology

British Entomological & Natural History Society

Entomological Society of America

Royal Entomological Society

The Amateur Entomologists Society

Entomology Index of Internet Resources (hosted by Iowa state university, USA)

Horticultural science

American Society for Horticultural Science

CAB International

Central Science Laboratories

CSIRO Scientific and industrial research for Australia

FAO of UN: includes statistical databases, photos

Horticulture Research International

Institute of Horticulture

International Society for Horticultural Science

John Innes Centre

Hazardous plants

BODD Botanical Dermatology Database, Cardiff

Plant pathology

American Phytopathological Society

British Mycological Society

British Society for Plant Pathology

CABI Abstracts Database

CABI Fungal Names Database

Soils & soil science

British Society of Soil Science

UK Composting Association

University of Reading Soil Science Department

Conservation of cultivated plants and gardens

National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens (NCCPG), UK organization overseeing the National Collections Scheme.

National Trust

Sustainable horticultural practices

Backyard Conservation, advisory leaflets from Natural Resources Conservation Service, US Department of Agriculture

Centre for Alternative Technology, conservation of energy and resources; practical organic gardening advice.

Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), premier UK organic gardening organization

The natural environment

Natural History Museum, includes online databases, also hosted sites

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, includes information on habitat conservation

Horticultural and ornamental specialists

Horticultural Trades Association, UK

Plant Societies: a large international list, but with strong US bias

SaxiHorti, Alpine-L, The Electronic Rock Garden Society.

The Arboricultural Association

New Ornamentals Database: useful source of information on some new cultivars.

Aquatic plants and water gardening

Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants, University of Florida

International Waterlily and Water Gardening Society