Ecoinformatics Resources

Spatial, Climate & Environment Data:
Australian Natural Resource Atlas
DAYMET US Data Center -- Univ. Montana
EROS Data Center - USGS
Geographic Network - ESRI
National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse - FGDC
Net Primary Productivity Database -- Oak Ridge National Labporatory
Numerical Terradynamics Shttp://www.ntsg.umt.edu/mulation Group -- Univ. Montana

Ecoinformatics Tools
CBI -- USGS Center for Biological Informatics
EcoInformatics.org -- An online data and information management source
EML -- The Ecological Metadata Language
Environmental Informatics - SDSC
International Society for Ecological Informatics
Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)
Metacat -- The flexible XML Database
SALVIAS -- Spatial analysis of local vegetation inventories across scales
SEEK -- Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge

Modeling:
Swarm Simulation System
EcoSim

Organizations
Ecoinformatics.org
ISEI, The International Society for Ecological Informatics
SEEK, The Science Environment for Ecological Knowledge

Phylogenetics:
Angiosperm Phylogeny Website
Phylogenetics Software Resources
Phylogeny Programs
TreeBase

Plant traits:
BiolFlor : Datenbank biologisch-ökologischer Merkmale der Flora von Deutschland
FloVegSi
IRIS: Dutch plant database for reproductive traits
LEDA: Life-history traits of the Northwest European flora
USDA Plants Database
UConn Plant database

Plot data:
Austrian Alps -- A GIS-based vegetation database of the Austrian Alps.
EcoPlant -- A phytoecological database for France's forests (also pdf)
Gentry Dataset -- Alan Gentry's tropical forest plots
LTER Data
NVS -- New Zealand Vegetation Survey
RAINFOR -- Amazon Forest Inventory Network
USGS - NPS Vegetation Mapping Program --US National Parks
VegBank -- ESA Vegetation Panel Plot Archive

Plot databases systems :
Archive for botanical data
TurboVeg
USGS-NPS Plots
VegAna (Vegetation edition and Analysis) is an integrated software package oriented toweards the storement, management and analysis of ecological data.
VegBank (online archive) & VegBranch (desktop)
VPRO a freeware database program designed to manage large data set of ecosystem plots collected using the standard field form, methods, and codes of A Field Manual for Describing Terrestrial Ecosystems
VegBank (online archive) & VegBranch (desktop)

Regional synthesis tools
SynBioSyst - Europe Statistical tools:
ADE4
Community analysis programs -- Dave Roberts' package
CANOCO
Geographically weighted regression
Jari Oksanen's Software for community analysis
JUICE -- Program for analysis and classification of phytosociological tables
Mike Plamer's Ordination Webpage
MULVA
PC-ORD
SYN-TAX
Vegan -- Jari Oksanen's package
VegAna (Vegetation edition and Analysis) is an integrated software package oriented toweards the storement, management and analysis of ecological data.
VTAB

Taxonomic data:
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
International Plant Names Index
International Working Group on Taxonomic Databases
Mexican Biodiversity Information Network - REMIB
NatureServe Explorer - Community and Species classification
Species Analyst
USDA Plants Database
VegBank -- ESA Vegetation Panel Plot Archive
W3 TROPICOS

Training:
Analysis of phytosociological databases - Chytrý & Tichý