* The Agricultural Research Service (USDA) National Agricultural Library,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2351, has just published (Sept.’98) an annotated
bibliography “Vegetables and Fruits: A Guide to Heirloom Varieties and
Community Based Stewardship.” SRB 98-05, compiled by Suzanne P. DeMuth (285
pages). This incredible 3 volumn bibliography is available by writing to
USDA, ARS National Agricultural Library and sending a self-addressed return
mailing label. The three volumns list summaries of books, articles, videos,
internet sites, resource organizations, historical bibliographies, etc. *
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*Phenology Web Links - Sequence of Bloom:*
*Uses of plant phenology and sequence of bloom:*
- Correlation of plant phenology with insect emergence and pest control
- Correlation with crop planting dates
- Designing farmscapes with cover crops and hedgerows to enhance
natural biological control
- Designing bee forage plantings
- Prediction of global warming trends
*Floral Calendars for Native Plants & Wildflowers*
Sequence of bloom (phenology) for wildflowers at Dawes Arboretum,
Newark, Ohio, between , Mar 1, 1988 - Oct 31, 1995. Compiled by Elaine
Gandolph Hendricks. Dates for some species extended by additional
observations in the years 1996-1998 by Karen Matz. The table starts with
flowering of Skunk Cabbage on March 1st and progresses through the
season
to Black Nightshade on October 11th.
This web link is a table of around 340 wildflowers of Ohio listed in
chronological order for sequence of bloom, with data on beginning and
ending dates of bloom as well as scientific and common names of plants.
Oklahoma Wildflowers by Charles S. Lewallen Table of Contents Ordered by
Date http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/okwild/toc_date.html
An excellent web site for color pictures of 480 wildflowers and native
plants of Oklahoma. The flowering dates are organized by month
of the year
(March thru December), including the actual day of the year each picture
was taken.
The Botanical Sorting Machine by Marco Bleeker of The Netherlands is a
plant lover’s web site organized by names of plant families and plant
orders with links to color pictures, some with botanical/habitat
descriptions or links to other web sites.
A special feature is the "In Bloom" section that contains bloom data
for a sample of 369 plants, recorded by the Marco Bleeker over a 10-year
period. Flowering times are listed on a monthly basis for the
colder months
(January-February and November-December) and bi-weekly during the peak
bloom season (March thru October).
Plant data is organized by color of bloom, Latin name, common name,
garden (g) or wild (w) plant, and form (herb, shrub, tree). Background
notes discuss phenology and colour.
Bloom Times for Wildflowers of the Southern Appalachians http://ncnatural.com/wildflwr/blmtime.html
Bloom times, organized by month, for about 140 wildflowers of the
southern Appalachian bioregion. Some plants link to individual pages
containing color photos and botanical descriptions.
Phenology of New York State Rare Plants The New York Natural Heritage
Program ftp://ftp.heritage.tnc.org/pub/nhp/us/ny/plants2.html
A table of 700 native (rare) plants of New York state. The phenology
list shows the months of the year when the flowers (F), fruits (R) or
vegetative parts (V) of each rare species can be seen.
The Spring, Summer, and Fall wild flower pages contain high quality
thumb-nail images of wildflowers blooming by season, with links to more
brief information on species and habitat.
Two wildflowers featured per week, with color photos and links, the Week
of June, 28 to July 05, 1998 through the Week of September 20 to
September
27, 1998.
A floral calendar for about 135 wildflowers and native plants of New
York, recorded by the Crescent Trail Association.
The Crescent Trail is a footpath in the Town of Perinton, a suburb
southeast of Rochester, New York on the historic Erie Canal between the
Finger Lakes and Lake Ontario. Twenty-six miles of trail wind through
wooded hills and scenic wetlands. The Trail connects with the Erie Canal
Heritage Trail (or towpath) along the banks of the Erie Canal, to the
Perinton Hikeway-Bikeway. The Town of Perinton is a southeastern
suburb of
Rochester, New York.
Phenological Checklist of the Birds of Konza Prairie http://climate.konza.ksu.edu/flora_fauna/bird.html
Phenological checklist for 208 species of birds in Konza Prairie
(Kansas), sightings recorded between March through February of the
following year. Modified and updated from data previously published from
Zimmerman, J.L. 1985. Birds of Konza Prairie Research Natural
Area, Kansas.
The Prairie Nauralist 17:185-192.
Native Wildflowers of the North Dakota Grasslands Northern Prairie
Wildlife Research Center http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/literatr/wildflwr/wildflwr.htm
A collection of short articles and color photographs of about 250
prairie wildflowers, written by Northern Prairie biologist Harold A.
Kantrud over a 15 year period. The articles appeared weekly in local
newspapers and were published during the week each species was
expected to
bloom.
Each article is three to four paragraphs in length and usually
consists of the life history of the species, its identifying
traits, where
in North Dakota one can expect to find it, and its nomenclatural
history.
Pictures are available for most species.
Midwestern Wetland Flora: Field Office Guide to Plant Species Northern
Prairie Wildlife Research Center http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/othrdata/plntguid/plntguid.htm
This guide to wetland flora was compiled in response to increased focus
on the value of wetlands at the federal level, especially in the
Swampbuster provision of the 1995 Food Security Act. The guide
contains 300
species of vascular plants. The guide excludes all species that are true
aquatics that live in water, because they are obvious wetland
species. Also
excluded were those species that most people readily recognize, such as
cattail, lizard's tail, and others.
The Species List and Identification Key contains color photos,
distribution maps, and botanical features including flowering times
indicated for month(s) of bloom.
Phenology http://biologi.uio.no/avdelinger/protistologi/Phenology.html
Phenology Phenology, and plant phenology in particular, has traditions
since the 1850´s in Norway. Here, a brief introduction to the present
status of this area of wild plant botany in Norway is given, and the
intentions of becoming a part of an international phenological network
(IPN) is expressed.
The Lilac Phenology Network Home Page http://www.uwm.edu/People/mds/enanet.html
Phenology, which is derived from the Greek word phaino meaning to show
or to appear, is the science of periodic biological events in the animal
and plant world as influenced by the environment, especially weather and
climate. Sprouting and flowering of plants in the spring, color
changes of
plants in the fall, bird migration, insect hatches, and animal
hibernation
are all examples of phenological events. Plants are special, highly
sensitive weather instruments that integrate the combined effect
of weather
factors such as temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind, and sunshine in
their growth response. They can be observed year after year and dates
recorded when certain growth stages, such as opening of leaf buds or
appearance of first flowers occur.
Phenological Stages for the Lilac, Syringa chinensis 'Red
Rothomagensis' Phenological Stages for the Honeysuckle, Lonicera
tatarica
'Arnold Red'
Global Phenological Monitoring-site (GPM) http://www.student.wau.nl/~arnold/gpmn.html
Graphs and charts illustrating phenological records in Europe: Bud swell
& flowering dates of grapevine correlated to temperature;
arrival dates of
swallow in relation to temperature; leafing dates of oak; flowering
dates
of garlic mustard and emergence of orange tip butterfly; flowering of
herbs; flowering of apples.
The Four Goals of the Phenological Study Group
1. To promote a global dialogue among phenologists, by compiling
information on phenological research and data sets, and by
making this list
available to electronic and printed form.
2. To use this global forum: to encourage establishment and expansion
of phenological networks for data exchange for international
cooperation.
3. To explore methods of using phenology to stimulate public
interest, especially among pupils and students.
4. To encourage research that correlates phenological trends with
climatic trends, especially in the context of global change monitoring.
The Pedosphere and Its Dynamics is an on-line textbook from the Soil
Science Server at the University of Alberta. Information is provided
all aspects of soils, including soil texture, structure, mineralogy, pH and
reaction, water, air, ecology, organic matter, and others. It is probably
the most informative, best organized, and visually appealing web site on
soils anywhere on the Internet.
A Bureau of Land Management web site that features a concise,
graphics-supported
primer on soil biological communities typical of western, arid soils.
Excellent!
Another soil biology primer featuring concise summaries with supporting
graphics, from the Cooperative Research Centre for Soil & Land Management
in Adelaide, South Australia. Excellent!
*Soils Lecture Notes:*
Davey Jone’s “Plant-Soil-Microbial and Rhizosphere Interactions” Home Page
http://www.safs.bangor.ac.uk/dj/
A compilation of very informative and useful lecture notes from Davey
Jone’s home page at the School of Agricultural and Forest Sciences at the
University of Wales, Bangor. Especially see:
The Microbe Zoo is an educational web site for kids compiled by the
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology. Dirtland takes viewers on
a safari to discover microscopic organisms
that inhabit the soil. A good place to start for a quick summary and
images of below-ground creatures and the important jobs they perform in
agriculture, composts, soil building, etc.
A 4-page student paper on the Restoration and Reclamation Review website
at University of Minnesota – Horticultural Science 5015 course. This paper
looks at protozoan, nematode, termite and earthworm soil fauna; it
describes the fauna’s primary habitat, their role in soil health and ways
to promote fauna colonization.
A 4-page reprint from Farmer to Farmer magazine, January-February 1997,
the award-winning magazine published in California for several years.
Lotter’s article provides a brief description of the soil ecological
community, followed by an introduction to methods used to measure microbial
biomass and activity; microbial population counts; on-farm microbial
activity tests; potentially mineralizable nitrogen (PMN);
phospholipid-fatty acid (PLFA) method; and finally, earthworm indicator
tests.
A 13-page reprint of the classic article on the soil foodweb by Dr.
Elaine Ingham, soil microbiologist at Oregon State University, and founder
of Soil Foodweb Incorporated laboratory.
SFI is the soil microbial analysis lab founded by Dr. Elaine Ingham. In
addition to general background on the importance of the soil foodweb, the
following notes are provided on commercial products and agricultural
practices that support different microbial communities.
Especially see the following SFI notes on managing soil biology with
agricultural inputs:
The IMPACT Project deals with the Interactions between Microbial
inoculants and resident
Populations in the rhizosphere of Agronomically important Crops in
bypical soils. This site features a brief introduction to the benefits of
soil microorganisms accompanied by pictures.
The Health of Our Soils: Toward Sustainable Agriculture in Canada
Centre for Land and Biological Resources Research, Research Branch
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Publication 1906/E. 1995. http://res.agr.ca/CANSIS/PUBLICATIONS/HEALTH/_overview.html
Features on-line technical notes on soil management topics: Cover
Crops; Conservation Crop Rotation Effects on Soil Quality; Effects of
Residue Managment, No-Till on Soil Quality; Effect of Soil Quality on
Nutrient Efficiency; Herbicides; Legumes and Soil Quality; Effects of Soil
Erosion on Soil Productivity.
Glossary of Soil Science
Canadian Soil Information System (CanSIS)
Eastern Cereal and Oilseed Research Centre Ottawa (Ontario) http://res.agr.ca/CANSIS/GLOSSARY/