Life Sciences
This is a guide for life sciences at Arizona State University.
Botany
- Find Articles
- Botanical Libraries
- Botanical Collections at ASU
- Taxonomy and Systematics
- Websites
- Canotia
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AgricolaWorldwide coverage of agricultural literature. Compiled by the NationalAgricultural Library & institutions in agricultural and related sciences. Indexes journal articles, book chapters, monographs, series, microforms, audiovisuals, maps, etc.
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CAB Abstracts ArchiveSearch for articles and more in the fields of agriculture, forestry, aspects of human health, human nutrition, animal health, and the management and conservation of natural resources. Coverage is for 1913 to 1972.
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BioOne.1Search for articles in over 80 biological, ecological, and environmental sciences journals from science professional societies and publishers.
Additional Resources
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American Journal of BotanyThe flagship journal of the Botanical Society of America.
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Avery Index to Architectural PeriodicalsIndexes journals, popular periodicals, professional association publications, US state & regional periodicals, and major serials on architecture and design.
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Elsevier's ScienceDirectScienceDirect is an index to journal articles and book chapters from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals and more than 11,000 books published by Elsevier, it's partner publishing units and other publishers, such as Cell Press.
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JSTOR Ecology and Botany Collection IIThe Ecology & Botany Collection II includes approximately 80 journals in the areas of biological and plant sciences.
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JSTOR Global PlantsGlobal Plants contains the contributed collections of herbaria from around the globe. Herbaria preserve plant type specimens that are used for the study of botany, ecology, and other plant science disciplines.
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Plant ScienceSearch for articles on all aspects of Plant Science.
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Plantwise Knowledge BankThe Plantwise knowledge bank brings together key plant health information from across the world, including a useful diagnostic tool and factsheet library to help diagnose and manage plant health problems.
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ScopusScopus is a database of peer-reviewed literature and web sources with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research. Includes many articles in the Health Sciences & Hard Sciences.
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ASU Natural History CollectionsThe Natural History Collections are comprised of nine collections that directly support the University's teaching, research, and public outreach functions. Our holdings emphasize flora and fauna from the arid southwest of North America, especially Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Collectively, our holdings rank among the largest collections of Sonoran desert biota in the world.
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The ARBORETUM at ASULocated at ASU’s Tempe campus and Polytechnic Campus, the Arboretum collections include palms and palm-like plants, deciduous trees, fruit-bearing trees, conifers, evergreen trees, desert trees, cacti, succulents, and desert accent plants.
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Arizona State University Vascular Plant HerbariumThe Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium is the second largest in the Arid Southwest with over 290,000 specimens.
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Index of Organism NamesION will ultimately contain all the organism names related data found within the Thomson Reuters life science literature databases.
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International Plant Names IndexThe International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of seed plants, ferns and fern allies.
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NCBI TaxonomyThe NCBI Taxonomy Database is a curated classification and nomenclature for all of the organisms in the public sequence databases. This currently represents about 10% of the described species of life on the planet.
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Arizona Cooperative ExtensionA nationwide educational network of scientists and educators.
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Biodiversity Heritage LibraryThe Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
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Botanical Society of America Online Image CollectionEducational images for instructional use from BSA.
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Encyclopedia of LifeThe Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is an ambitious, even audacious project to organize and make available via the Internet virtually all information about life present on Earth.
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Flora of North AmericaInformation on the names, taxonomic relationships, continent-wide distributions, and morphological characteristics of all plants native and naturalized found in North America north of Mexico
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USDA PLANTS DatabaseThe PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories.
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CanotiaThe journal is devoted to botanical and mycological papers. Contributions may include those to the Vascular Plants of Arizona (VPA) project, checklists, local floras, new records for Arizona and ecological studies. All manuscripts are peer-reviewed.