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Links
(ALWAYS) Under Construction: I will provide some of the links that I have found useful over the past few years. Included are links of both general interest and interest to people doing plant or biogeographical research.
Biology
IBS - Internation Biogoegraphy Society
AFS - American Fern Society
GBIF - Global Biodiversity Information Facility - one of the worlds major life mapping programs
NAI - NASA Astrobiology Institute
Utah Herbarium - lick on "web manual" on left. this is an example of the kind of information herbaria have and how they can ultimately be used to assess patterns of life on the planets surface
ATBI - All Taxa Biological Inventory
AFE - Atlas Florae Europeae - all plants in Europe
USDA PNDB - Plants National Database
USFS FIADB - Forest inventory and analysis database
FNA - Flora of North America - excellent online flora
TOL - Tree Of Life - online tree of life, for general interest. Good for students
QGIS - open source GIS mac/linux/windows
Hawth's Tools - free extension to ArcView
BSBI - Botanical Society of the British Isles - remarkable distribution maps of the British Flora
TreeBase - Phylogenetic data
Silvics - information about woody trees
World of Equisetum - Equisetum, my favorite organisms
Phytogeography - I maintain this page on the wikipedia
General interest links
APOD - Astronomy Picture Of the Day
Strangemaps - Strange Maps
Science Friday - npr science program
Wikipedia - Go here first (really)
www.alexa.com - track the activity of websites
Babelfish - translate webpages or type in text
Ignobel prize - cutting edge research
Easy macro recorder - automates your actions on your computer for iterated tasks; trivial to implement. I have a few tricks that can be helpful. Anyone know of a good GNU macro recorder?
Open source software I have found useful
Kompozer - I made all these webpages with this free, open source software
GIMP - Don't buy photoshop, and photoshop is a RAM hog, this program is more streamlined, does most of what you want, and free
Inkscape - This is an excellent GNU, open source vector drawing program.
Perl websites
If you are a local IU graduate student just starting perl, please feel free to stop by and ask any questions. I am very new to it myself but may be able to help. Also, try these websites below. I refer to them all the time.
Perl.com - I started my perl experience by going through the introduction manuals available at this website
CPAN - Comprehensive Perl Archive Network. Warehouse of perl libraries (code already made for specific tasks) and more
Perl.org - The Perl directory.
Perfunc - a comprehensive list of perl functions
Perl Regular expressions - broad tutorial of matching with regular expressions. I regularly refer to this page when making regular expressions.
Map of the internets, from http://www.opte.org/maps/
last updated 2009-10-28
Marc Bogonovich
mbogonov@indiana.edu