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THE OVERSTORY #153--Online species references for agroforestry
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THE OVERSTORY #153--Online species references for agroforestry
by Permanent Agriculture Resources


Contents:

ONLINE SPECIES REFERENCES
RELATED EDITIONS OF THE OVERSTORY
PUBLISHER NOTES
SUBSCRIPTIONS


ONLINE SPECIES REFERENCES

Although some of the best species references for agroforestry and
forestry are still only found in book form, several very useful species
databases have appeared online during the past few years. This is a list
of some of the online species resources that are most useful. Feel free
to send additional web site recommendations to us at:
overstory@agroforestry.net. 

Listings are arranged in no particular order.

Agroforestree (AFT) database by the World Agroforestry Centre (formerly
the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry (ICRAF)) is a tree
species reference and selection guide for agroforestry trees covering
more than 500 species
<http://www.worldagroforestry.org/Sites/TreeDBS/AFT/AFT.htm>

FACT Sheets (formerly NFT Highlights) by Winrock International,
Morrilton, Arkansas, give concise summaries about many multipurpose tree
and shrub species (many available in Spanish, French, Indonesian,
Chinese, Vietnamese, and Khmer)
<http://www.winrock.org/forestry/factpub/factsh.htm>

Forage Tree Legumes in Tropical Agriculture (Editors: R. Gutteridge and
M. Shelton, 1994 [republished 1998]), published by The Tropical
Grassland Society of Australia, St Lucia, Queensland, Australia
(previously published by CAB International, Wallingford, UK) covers a
number of multipurpose tree legumes that can serve as ruminant forage in
silvopastoral agroforestry systems
<http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Publicat/Gutt-shel/x5556e00.htm>

The Forestry Compendium (2005 Edition) [commercial subscription site] by
CAB International (CABI) includes detailed information (text, maps and
pictures) for over 1,200 tree and shrub species of importance to
forestry and agroforestry and basic information for over 20,000
additional species. Tropical, subtropical, temperate and boreal species
are included <http://www.cabicompendium.org>

The USDA PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the
vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the US
and its territories <http://plants.usda.gov/>. The site also provides
excellent links pages such as to invasive plants
<http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/link_categories.cgi?category=linkinv>,
links to Floras, Databases, and Nomenclature
<http://plants.usda.gov/cgi_bin/link_categories.cgi?category=linknames>
, and general plant links <http://plants.usda.gov/links.html>

The Native Plant Network is devoted to the sharing of information on how
to propagate native plants of North America (Canada, Mexico, and US) and
has propagation protocols for US, Hawaii, Canada, Mexico, US Virgin
Islands, Hawaii, and other Pacific Islands
<http://www.nativeplantnetwork.org/>

Seed Leaflets published by Danida Forest Seed Centre are aimed at seed
technicians, extension workers and farmers, and contain information on
practical seed handling for about 90 tropical tree species
<http://www.dfsc.dk/seedleaflets.htm>

Protabase published by Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA)
provides information primarily on species of tropical Africa
<http://database.prota.org/publishedspeciesEn.htm>

Grass Genera of the World: Descriptions, Illustrations, Identification,
and Information Retrieval; including Synonyms, Morphology, Anatomy,
Physiology, Phytochemistry, Cytology, Classification, Pathogens, World
and Local Distribution, and References (includes of course bamboo
species) <http://delta-intkey.com/grass/index.htm>

The Silvics of Native and Exotic Trees of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean
Islands (Spanish  version) published by the USDA Forest Service
<http://www.fs.fed.us/global/iitf/libpdf.html>

The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names
and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants
<http://www.ipni.org/index.html>

Species Database published by Plants For A Future is an extensive,
searchable database of useful species
<http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.html>

Invasive Species Related Links by the US Geological Survey
<http://www.werc.usgs.gov/invasivespecies/invasive-links.html>

Survey of Economic Plants for Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (SEPASAL) is a
database and enquiry service about useful "wild" and semi-domesticated
plants of tropical and subtropical drylands, developed and maintained at
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew <http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ceb/sepasal/>

The Traditional Tree Initiative‹Species profiles for Pacific Island
Agroforestry published by Permanent Agriculture Resources (also
publishes The Overstory E-journal) provides detailed information on some
of the most important Pacific island agroforestry tree species
<http://www.traditionaltree.org>

The USDA National Plant Germplasm System catalogs species biodiversity
in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)
<http://www.ars-grin.gov/npgs/searchgrin.html>

NewCROP(tm) by The Center for New Crops & Plant Products at Purdue
University provides windows to new and specialty crop profiles
<http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/default.html>

The PRELUDE database concerns the use of plants in different traditional
veterinarian and human medicines in Africa
<http://www.metafro.be/prelude>

A Database of Foods, Drugs, Dyes and Fibers of Native American Peoples,
Derived from Plants <http://herb.umd.umich.edu/>

Cornell University Poisonous Plants Informational Database includes
plant images, pictures of affected animals and presentations concerning
the botany, chemistry, toxicology, diagnosis and prevention of poisoning
of animals by plants and other natural flora (fungi, etc.)
<http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html>

The System-wide Information Network for Genetic Resources (SINGER) is an
information exchange network of the Future Harvest Centres of the
Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
<http://singer.grinfo.net/index.php>


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/RELATED EDITIONS OF THE OVERSTORY

The Overstory #115--Agroforestry Resources--organizations, periodicals, and
web links (Part 2 of 2)
The Overstory #114--Agroforestry Resources--agroforestry references,
species
references, and book sources (Part 1 of 2)


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/PUBLISHER NOTES

Publisher: Permanent Agriculture Resources
Editor: Craig R. Elevitch

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