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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 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 |
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
Czech Academy of Science Links to institutes (Botanical, Entomological, Parasitological, Hydrobiology, Soil Biology, Vertebrate Biology) related to taxonomy |
| Germany |
| See also the NFP website ... |
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There is a number of directories on systematists and taxonomists on the internet available. They differ according to structure and degree of completeness, but all give in information on the taxon and the email address of the worker. Directory of Experts in the Identification of British Columbia Species American Society of Plant Taxonomists GLODIR: Global Directory of Marine (and Freshwater) Professionals: OceanExpert currently contains 10418 records Directory of Systematists of the World Verzeichnis deutschsprachiger Entomologen & Arachnologen Latvian Taxonomists and Systematists by D. Telnov Database of Indian Taxonomists (DIT) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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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