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Australian National Botanic Gardens

In Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, it is Sunday, 10-Mar-96 15:20:55 EST

This World Wide Web server provides access to a variety of local and remote information sources:

About the Botanic Gardens

• An introduction to the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG)

• Its scientific section, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CPBR)

• Its parent body, the Australian Nature Conservation Agency (ANCA)

• Its community support group, Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Databases

• About the ANBG's Integrated Botanical Information System known as 'IBIS':

• Botanical, horticultural and photographic databases

Maps

• The location of the ANBG in relation to Canberra's city centre, university and CSIRO.

• Detailed maps of the ANBG showing section numbers and buildings.

Coming events and attractions

• An art exhibition Its a Rare Thing Too for children and adults, starting Easter 1996.

Interesting items for Net browsers

• Introduction to the Gardens and its programs
• In Flower This Week at the Gardens
• Wattles (Acacia ) in the Gardens with lots of photographs.
• Some plants used by Australian Aboriginals with illustrations.
• Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos ) for your garden.
• Leptospermum taxonomy, an essay by Andrew Lyne.
• Grevillea wilkinsonii, its taxonomy and conservation by Bob Makinson.
• Macquarie Island and subantarctic island plants, by Jim Croft and Stuart Donaldson.
• Bird Studies within the Gardens, (with calls for those with sound)
• Frogs within the Gardens.
• Aboriginal Programs within the Gardens.
• Ferns and Man in New Guinea by Jim Croft.

For the more serious botanist

• ANBG Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS)
• Botanical biodiversity of Australia, some statistics.
• Leptospermum taxonomy an essay by Andrew Lyne.
• Grevillea wilkinsonii, its taxonomy and conservation by Bob Makinson.
• Wattles (Acacia ) in the Gardens
• Eucalypt collaborative data set project
• Botanical or biological agencies in Australia
• Herbarium data transfer standards - HISPID, etc. by Jim Croft.
• Collecting permits in Australia - contacts and regulations.
• Bibliography of plant identification prepared by Bob Makinson.
• A selection of botanical glossaries

For botanic gardens managers

• ANBG Plan of Management - Hypertext version
• ANBG Fire emergency procedures - Hypertext version
  (see also some resources on disaster preparedness from other institutions)
• Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens (CHABG)
  • Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens and Arboreta
  • Census of Plants in Australian botanic gardens
• Australian Network for Plant Conservation (ANPC)
• Collecting permits in Australia - contacts and regulations.

For students and teachers

• Herbarium Internship Program (Bob Makinson)
• ANBG Education Service
• Plant Enquiry Service

About the ANBG WWW server

• this ANBG World Wide Web biodiversity server
• ANBG Biodiversity Gopher
• Oracle relational database (internal use, with gateways to gopher and WWW)

There are a number of distinct themes or subjects area on the ANBG gopher; these can also be accessed through the ANBG WWW server.

Other projects and activities on this server

[ Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens ] [ Australian Nature Conservation Agency ] [ Australian Nature Conservation Agency Libraries ] [ Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research ] [ Australian Systematic Society ] [ Council of Heads of Australian Botanic Gardens ] [ Census of Plants in Australian Botanic Gardens ] [ Eucalypt collaborative data set project ] [ Australian Biological Resources Study ] [ Australian Network for Plant Conservation ] [ DEscriptive Language for TAxonomy (DELTA) ] [ Conservation On-line (CoOL) ] and others to be added...]

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Updated Monday, 26-Feb-96 08:20:01 EST, (www@anbg.gov.au)