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Chapter 11

Lists & databases on taxonomic experts

Lists and databases on taxonomic experts in your country, in Europe and the World

World and General

Tree of Life

World Taxonomist Database (WTD) at the ETI

Index Herbariorum

Homepages of Arachnologists: scientists who study some aspect of arachnology

Coleopterists’ Society: membership directory searchable by taxonomic group (of beetles)

Dipterists' Directory searchable by taxonomic group (of Diptera). Includes links to several regional or taxonomically limited dipterists’ databases

Biodiversity and Biological Collections

Europe

BioNET-INTERNATIONAL list of CEE Experts CD: Vorontsov’s Who is who in the biodiversity sciences in Armenia…. (former USSR) (no online version)

Fauna Europaea and Fauna Europaea NAS extension search service

Taxonomic experts on European animals located in Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia

Countries

Bulgaria
Bulgarian Clearing House Mechanism (CHM)
Czech Republic
Herbarias in the Czech Republic (with list of curators)

National Museum Prague – Science Branch – links and contacts to departments

Moravian Museum Brno

Entomological department

Zoological department

Botanical Department

Czech Academy of Science

Links to institutes (Botanical, Entomological, Parasitological, Hydrobiology, Soil Biology, Vertebrate Biology) related to taxonomy

Section of Biological and Medical Sciences

Section of Bio-Ecological Sciences

Germany
See also the NFP website ...
Netherlands
National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Leiden: People & Staff, Herbarium Details

National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Utrecht: People & Staff, Herbarium Details

National Herbarium of the Netherlands in Wageningen: People & Staff, Herbarium Details

ZMA/IBED

Naturalis (Natural History Museum)

CBS

Spain
There are several more databases to be found on the homepage of the Fauna Iberica project

Directories of Taxonomists (Spanish and non-Spanish)

Switzerland
Forum Biodiversität Schweiz / Forum Biodiversity Switzerland

Centre Suisse de Cartographie de la Faune

United Kingdom
Alistair Taylor (NHML) has a large database of UK experts. The online version is simple but the database behind is quite detailed. See publication “The Web of Life” The setting up of the UK GTI-NFP steering group showed that there really was not a great need for this database of experts!

Other Regions

Canada
Alphabetical List of Canadian Systematists

'Directory of Experts in the Identification of British Columbia Species' available here.

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