Useful Regional Biological Resources

GIOS - Global Institute of Substainability(http://sustainability.asu.edu/gios/ ) - established to catalyze and advance interdisciplinary research on environmental, economic and social sustainability, especially as it relates to urban areas.

• http://caplter.asu.edu/home/index.jsp
• Symbiota Identification Tools
• http://seinet.asu.edu/symbiota/index.jsp (soon to be public)
• SEINet Collection search engine - Queries multiple AZ university collections for a given area or taxonomic group and presents the results in multiple formats. The checklist format allows users to create custom checklists for a given area.
• http://seinet.asu.edu/collections/selection.jsp
• SEINet Image library
• http://seinet.asu.edu/imageLibrary/ImageIndex.jsp

UA Herbarium - A repository of over 350,000 plant specimens which date back to 1826. It’s a museum or library for plants. While the central goal of the herbarium is to support botanical research, it also offers a public service to aid the general public in learning about and exploring their botanical environment. Feel free to drop by with a plant sample of which you want identified.

• Home page: http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/
• Map: http://iiewww.ccit.arizona.edu/uamap/staticLarge/35.html
• What is herbarium? http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/misc/whatis.html
• Flora of the Tucson Mountains: http://ag.arizona.edu/herbarium/floras/tucsons/index.html
• College of Agriculture and Life Sciences plant image page: http://cals.arizona.edu/extension/azffig/

UA Arboretum – A live plant museum. The whole of the UA University functions as the campus’ arboretum.

• There home page is full of interesting and useful botanical resources for cultivated species: http://ag.arizona.edu/arboretum/index.html
• Numerous plant walks: http://ag.arizona.edu/arboretum/plantwalks.html
• Interactive map of campus: http://codd.art.srnr.arizona.edu/arboretum/viewer.htm
• Campus Plant Walk: http://ag.arizona.edu/arboretum/pwalk/startpw.htm