GrassWorld and AusGrass2 are Scratchpad websites that provide information about grasses. GrassWorld covers world grasses and includes descriptions, distribution maps, classifications, literature and images. It has over 12,000 species distribution maps. AusGrass2 focuses on Australian grasses and contains keys, fact sheets, classifications and other resources. Both sites track usage through Google Analytics and have plans to expand content such as adding morphological data and improving interactive identification tools.
This presentation was given by Dr. Avishek Bhattacharjee in Botanical Nomenclature Course held in Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong in November 2016. This may be helpful to the undergraduate and post graduate Botany students to understand different types of taxonomic literature, especially Flora, Revision and Monograph.
This presentation was given by Dr. Avishek Bhattacharjee in Botanical Nomenclature Course held in Botanical Survey of India, Eastern Regional Centre, Shillong in November 2016. This may be helpful to the undergraduate and post graduate Botany students to understand different types of taxonomic literature, especially Flora, Revision and Monograph.
This pdf contains information about the various methods of documentation in plant taxonomy. It includes, floras, manuals, monographs, dictionaries, glosaries, indexes, icones, etc.
Models of gene duplication, transfer and loss to study genome evolutionboussau
Presentation of the models of gene duplication, transfer, loss, and incomplete lineage sorting developed by my colleagues and myself. Results on gene tree inference, species tree inference are presented. Groups of species studied include mammals, birds, fungi and cyanobacteria.
Overview of the approaches I co-developed to reconstruct species trees and gene trees, in the presence of gene duplications, losses and transfers, or incomplete lineage sorting. Includes Phyldog, ALE, MP-EST*, RevBayes.
Towards inferring the history of life in the presence of lateral gene transfe...boussau
Short presentation given at Evolution 2014 (similar to that given at SMBE 2014). Introduces a new method for estimating a species tree in the presence of gene duplication, loss, and lateral gene transfer, in a statistical framework, based on a large number of gene families. Results on simulations and real data are presented.
Diversity of hymenopteran parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) associated w...arboreo.net
This research evaluated the diversity of hymenopteran
parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) at different
reforestation sites of Tectona grandis. Insects were collected with Malaise traps from October 2009 to September 2010.
One collected a total of 414 Chalcididae specimens
distributed in 3 genera and 16 species. Brachymeria and
Conura were the most representative genera with 14 species.
The site bordered by pasture vegetation presented a higher
number of collected specimens when compared to the other sites. Brachymeria pandora and Ceyxia ventrispinosa
occurred as super dominant, super abundant, super frequent and constant species.
Michel digital nomenclature-gna-zoobank-2014-co-namesconfv2Ellinor Michel
Global Digital Infrastructure for Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy
Ellinor Michel, Dep’t of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, (e.michel@nhm.ac.uk)
Richard L. Pyle, Natural Sciences Dep’t, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA
Robert P. Guralnick, Dep’t of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Jon Todd, Dep’t of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK,
The future for interoperable scientific information is digital, yet scientific names, the handles for all biodiversity information, remain without an integrated system tied to published descriptions and museum type specimens. Descriptions and type specimens provide standards for the otherwise fluid concepts of biological taxa. We are working to unify the infrastructures for biological nomenclature across nomenclatural codes (including zoological (ICZN - http://iczn.org/), botanical (ICNafp - http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php) and bacterial (ICNB) codes) through the Global Names Architecture (GNA). Our initial focus is on animal names, as these comprise the largest component of metazoan biodiversity and ZooBank (zoobank.org) is the first code-related online nomenclatural registration system. Users are applied scientists in agriculture, medicine, veterinary science and climate change research; biodiversity researchers such as ecologists, physiologists; archives such as museums; the scientific publishing community – in short, all users of scientific names of organisms based on the work of taxonomists.
Variation Of Phytolith Morphotypes Of Some Members Of Cucurbitaceae Juss.iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences(IOSR-JPBS) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of Pharmacy and Biological Science. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Pharmacy and Biological Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
I investigated the assumption that race and ancestry can be determined using DNA sequence analysis. I was able to present the results of my senior project at Luther College Research Symposium in April 2010.
A presentation given by Don Kirkup at the KikForum
Abstract:
A brief overview of some Kew “key” projects, potential areas of overlap and possible exchange mechanisms.
PENSOFT ARTICLE COLLECTION ABOUT MYANMAR
https://pensoft.net/about#Company-Profile
Pensoft is an independent academic publishing company, well known worldwide for its innovations in the field of semantic publishing and for its cutting-edge publishing tools and workflows. Founded in 1992 "by scientists, for the scientists" and initially focusing on book publishing, it has grown to become a leading publisher of innovative open access journals, such as: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, Nature Conservation, NeoBiota, Comparative Cytogenetics, and others. Pensoft has published more than 1,000 books and over 4,000 open access articles, mostly in the field of natural history.
Pensoft is a member or partner of several professional publishing organisations and data publishing platforms, including CrossRef, OASPA, PubMedCentral, CLOCKSS, Research Data Alliance (RDA), OpenAIRE, LifeWatch, DataONE, Dryad Data Repository, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), and others.
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24248/
A new remarkable species of Alloscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Myanmar (Burma) (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae)
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24453/
Filling the BINs of life: Report of an amphibian and reptile survey of the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, with DNA barcode data
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24198/
Taxonomic notes on Babinskaiidae from the Cretaceous Burmese amber, with the description of a new species (Insecta, Neuroptera)
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/22510/
Laubuka tenella, a new species of cyprinid fish from southeastern Bangladesh and southwestern Myanmar (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Danioninae)
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/22310/
New genus and species of sisyrids (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Late Cretaceous Myanmar amber
https://www.facebook.com/groups/799902210118950/permalink/1642543752521454/
https://www.facebook.com/Pensoft/
This pdf contains information about the various methods of documentation in plant taxonomy. It includes, floras, manuals, monographs, dictionaries, glosaries, indexes, icones, etc.
Models of gene duplication, transfer and loss to study genome evolutionboussau
Presentation of the models of gene duplication, transfer, loss, and incomplete lineage sorting developed by my colleagues and myself. Results on gene tree inference, species tree inference are presented. Groups of species studied include mammals, birds, fungi and cyanobacteria.
Overview of the approaches I co-developed to reconstruct species trees and gene trees, in the presence of gene duplications, losses and transfers, or incomplete lineage sorting. Includes Phyldog, ALE, MP-EST*, RevBayes.
Towards inferring the history of life in the presence of lateral gene transfe...boussau
Short presentation given at Evolution 2014 (similar to that given at SMBE 2014). Introduces a new method for estimating a species tree in the presence of gene duplication, loss, and lateral gene transfer, in a statistical framework, based on a large number of gene families. Results on simulations and real data are presented.
Diversity of hymenopteran parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) associated w...arboreo.net
This research evaluated the diversity of hymenopteran
parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) at different
reforestation sites of Tectona grandis. Insects were collected with Malaise traps from October 2009 to September 2010.
One collected a total of 414 Chalcididae specimens
distributed in 3 genera and 16 species. Brachymeria and
Conura were the most representative genera with 14 species.
The site bordered by pasture vegetation presented a higher
number of collected specimens when compared to the other sites. Brachymeria pandora and Ceyxia ventrispinosa
occurred as super dominant, super abundant, super frequent and constant species.
Michel digital nomenclature-gna-zoobank-2014-co-namesconfv2Ellinor Michel
Global Digital Infrastructure for Biological Nomenclature and Taxonomy
Ellinor Michel, Dep’t of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK, (e.michel@nhm.ac.uk)
Richard L. Pyle, Natural Sciences Dep’t, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, USA
Robert P. Guralnick, Dep’t of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA
Jon Todd, Dep’t of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK,
The future for interoperable scientific information is digital, yet scientific names, the handles for all biodiversity information, remain without an integrated system tied to published descriptions and museum type specimens. Descriptions and type specimens provide standards for the otherwise fluid concepts of biological taxa. We are working to unify the infrastructures for biological nomenclature across nomenclatural codes (including zoological (ICZN - http://iczn.org/), botanical (ICNafp - http://www.iapt-taxon.org/nomen/main.php) and bacterial (ICNB) codes) through the Global Names Architecture (GNA). Our initial focus is on animal names, as these comprise the largest component of metazoan biodiversity and ZooBank (zoobank.org) is the first code-related online nomenclatural registration system. Users are applied scientists in agriculture, medicine, veterinary science and climate change research; biodiversity researchers such as ecologists, physiologists; archives such as museums; the scientific publishing community – in short, all users of scientific names of organisms based on the work of taxonomists.
Variation Of Phytolith Morphotypes Of Some Members Of Cucurbitaceae Juss.iosrjce
IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences(IOSR-JPBS) is a double blind peer reviewed International Journal that provides rapid publication (within a month) of articles in all areas of Pharmacy and Biological Science. The journal welcomes publications of high quality papers on theoretical developments and practical applications in Pharmacy and Biological Science. Original research papers, state-of-the-art reviews, and high quality technical notes are invited for publications.
I investigated the assumption that race and ancestry can be determined using DNA sequence analysis. I was able to present the results of my senior project at Luther College Research Symposium in April 2010.
A presentation given by Don Kirkup at the KikForum
Abstract:
A brief overview of some Kew “key” projects, potential areas of overlap and possible exchange mechanisms.
PENSOFT ARTICLE COLLECTION ABOUT MYANMAR
https://pensoft.net/about#Company-Profile
Pensoft is an independent academic publishing company, well known worldwide for its innovations in the field of semantic publishing and for its cutting-edge publishing tools and workflows. Founded in 1992 "by scientists, for the scientists" and initially focusing on book publishing, it has grown to become a leading publisher of innovative open access journals, such as: Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO), ZooKeys, Biodiversity Data Journal, PhytoKeys, MycoKeys, Nature Conservation, NeoBiota, Comparative Cytogenetics, and others. Pensoft has published more than 1,000 books and over 4,000 open access articles, mostly in the field of natural history.
Pensoft is a member or partner of several professional publishing organisations and data publishing platforms, including CrossRef, OASPA, PubMedCentral, CLOCKSS, Research Data Alliance (RDA), OpenAIRE, LifeWatch, DataONE, Dryad Data Repository, Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), and others.
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24248/
A new remarkable species of Alloscorpiops Vachon, 1980 from Myanmar (Burma) (Scorpiones, Scorpiopidae)
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24453/
Filling the BINs of life: Report of an amphibian and reptile survey of the Tanintharyi (Tenasserim) Region of Myanmar, with DNA barcode data
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/24198/
Taxonomic notes on Babinskaiidae from the Cretaceous Burmese amber, with the description of a new species (Insecta, Neuroptera)
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/22510/
Laubuka tenella, a new species of cyprinid fish from southeastern Bangladesh and southwestern Myanmar (Teleostei, Cyprinidae, Danioninae)
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/22310/
New genus and species of sisyrids (Insecta, Neuroptera) from the Late Cretaceous Myanmar amber
https://www.facebook.com/groups/799902210118950/permalink/1642543752521454/
https://www.facebook.com/Pensoft/
Maddison D.R., Moore W., Baker M.D., Ellis T.M., Ober K.A., Cannone J.J., and Gutell R.R. (2009).
Monophyly of terrestrial adephagan beetles as indicated by three nuclear genes (Coleoptera: Carabidae and Trachypachidae).
Zoologica Scripta, 38(1):43-62.
First attempts using NGS in Senecio (Asteraceae)
Building a robust phylogeny of Culcitium group: a baseline for addressing further evolutionary questions for the genus in the Andes
Dealing with heterogeneous data to improve our knowledge of biodiversity dynamics and ecosystem function: perspectives from synthesis projects: presented by Liliana Ballesteros-Meija for ACTIAS (Global patterns of insect diversity, distribution and evolutionary distinctness - What can we learn from two of the best-documented families of moths?) at the sfécologie conference 2018.
more information on the group: http://www.cesab.org/index.php/fr/projets-en-cours/projets-2014/130-actias
It describes the basics of Plant classification, morphological, anatomical, palynological, embryological, chemical and cytological evidences of classification
David Remsen lecture on Tuesday, Sept 15, 2009, for the Biodiversity Informatics Course, a Swedish Taxonomy Initiative (Svenska Artprojektet) course at the Swedish Natural History Museum, Stockholm, supported by the Swedish Species Service (ArtDatabanken) and the Swedish GBIF node.
2. Scratchpads
A flexible online resource for biodiversity
hosted by Natural History Museum, London.
In the first year (2007) 466 people from
more than 30 countries registered for
Scratchpads.
In Aug 2011 there were 3466 active users in
more than 60 countries. 363,000 pages of
content since March 2007.
Currently 314 Scratchpad sites, one of which
is GrassWorld and another is AusGrass2.
16. GrassWorld Menu Items
Descriptions of World Grasses
Global Distribution Maps
Check List of World Grasses
Classification
Historic Literature
Generic Descriptions
How to reference this site
Interactive Keys
Maps -TDWG
Published Grass Illustrations and Images
References
World Grass Floras
Agrostologists of Note
Useful Links
19. Global Distribution Maps
One global map for each
species
12,100 species
3 people inputting data from
continual upgrades of the
information in the DELTA
editor since May 2011
Sep 2012 – midway through
letter S.
Future plans are to colour
code where the distribution is
naturalised.
29. Issues relating to Generic Circumscriptiom
of Grasses
The selection and use of characters
Polyphyly, Paraphyly and Monophyly
Parsimony
Monotypic genera
Generic concepts (circumscription by
morphology and/or molecules)
34. Generic Descriptions
At this stage
there is no
morphological
data in these
descriptions. it
is planned to
compile these
using the DELTA
progam
gesumm
35. Interactive Keys
Not presently online but
will cross-link from
Identifylife
These will be in English,
French, German and
Spanish.
The INTKEY keys in
these 4 languages are all
ready to be uploaded.
36. Published Grass Illustrations
Achlaena piptostachya
Illustrations (Books): A.S.Hitchcock, Manual of the Grasses of the West Indies (1936).
Achnatherum altum
Illustrations (Books): G.E.Gibbs Russell el al, Grasses of Southern Africa (1990).
Achnatherum aridum
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum arnowiae
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum breviaristatum
Illustrations (Books): S-L Chen et al, Flora of China, Illustrations, Poaceae (2007).
Achnatherum bromoides
Illustrations (Books): N.Feinbrun-Dothan, Flora Palaestina 4 (1986).
Achnatherum chingii
Illustrations (Books): S-L Chen et al, Flora of China, Illustrations, Poaceae (2007).
Achnatherum contractum
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum coronatum
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum curvifolium
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum diegoense
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum duthiei
Illustrations (Books): S-L Chen et al, Flora of China, Illustrations, Poaceae (2007).
Achnatherum eminens
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007); R.McVaugh, Flora Nova-Galiciana Vol.14 Gramineae (1983).
41. Useful Links
AVH
Angiosperm Phylogeny
AusGrass2
CNWG
DELTA
GRIN
Gateway to African Plants - Poaceae
Generic Synonyms (Kew)
Global Compendium of Weeds
GrassBase & Synon
Grasses of Argentina
Grasses of Brazil
Grasses of China (FoC)
Grasses of Flora Zambesiaca
Grasses of Madagascar
Grasses of Mongolia
Grasses of NZ
Grasses of North America
Grasses of Pakistan
Grasses of Taiwan
Grasses of Zimbabwe
IPNI
IdentifyLife
Phylogenetic Classification of Poaceae
TROPICOS
The Plant List Poaceae
Wikipedia English
Wikipedia French
Wikipedia German
Wikipedia Spanish
43. Further Information
Bibliography, Maps (TADWG and GBIF), Google Scholar,
Wikipedia, Images (Flickr, Morphbank, Yahoo), Molecular databases and many others
66. GrassWorld and AusGrass2: The future
GrassWorld
Generic Descriptions using gesumm
Global maps – native and naturalised distributions
Images
Type specimen Images
Blogs and Groups
Interactive keys (Intkey and Lucid) to both Genera and Species on Identify Life
Newsletter
AusGrass2
Morphological data where missing
Brush up on links from keys and synonyms
Interactive keys (Intkey and Lucid) to both Genera and Species on Identify Life
Add more images
Newsletter
67. Scratchpad2
Line wrap problem fixed
Maps with colour separation (useful for weed distribution)
Integrated mapping tools - dynamically display point locality data,
regional data and shape files as overlays on a Google Map
Over 2012 a number of additional enhancements are planned.
These include:
Integrated Single Sign On (SSO), (with author-ID)
Proper Globally Unique Identifiers beyond URL’s
Scratchpad site registry with metadata and visualisations
concerning content in all the Scratchpads and author level metrics
on content
Rebuild of http://Scratchpads.eu, focusing on content within sites
rather than the Scratchpad infrastructure
Identification key building and species database visualisations
derived from character data in the matrix editor
Centralised services on controlled vocabularies
Phylogenetic analytical services
Improved training functionality
68. Acknowledgements
Yucely Alfonso and Dan Healy (BRI) for many hours
of data input
Kehan Harman and Maria Vorontsova (K) for use and
transfer of Grassbase data and RBG Kew, especially
Derek Clayton, for the use of this data
Gilberto Ocampo (CAS), Philip Sharpe (Coolum),
Hildemar Scholz (B) and Philippe Morat (P) for
translating the Delta character set to Spanish, German
and French.
Irina Brake (BM) and Isa Vandevelde (Natural
Sciences Museum, Belgium) for Scratchpad tutoring.