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Ecoflora Home Page
This
allows you to enter a species name and from that name, gather all the data associated
with that species.
This
allows you to enter the name of a fungus causing a disease, a part of a plant
that is attacked, a type of attack, or a name of a disease, and obtain details
of the disease itself.If you wish to search for those fungi attacking a particular
plant, please go to the plant species pages.
This
is the same as the species , but the search is performed on the vernacular name
rather than the Latin binomial.
The
Ecological Database of the British Isles has been constructed from
a wide variety of sources by Dr Helen Peat and Professor Alastair Fitter at
the University of York, with financial support from the British
Ecological Society and the Natural Environment Research Council.
It consists of data on over 2200 species of higher plants that occur in the
British Isles, together with the bibliography of sources. This version has
been produced by Dr Henry Ford.
The data
comprises information on taxonomy (family, genus, specific name, authority,
and vernacular name, together with a synonomy), a suite of over 130 ecological
and morphological characteristics, vice-county distribution in Britain, European
distribution by country, mycorrhizal associations, phytophagous insects and fungal diseases. The
data are obtained from the literature and therefore coverage varies greatly
between species. Some data sets are incomplete at this stage.
Navigate
by means of the menu on the left. Please report factual errors or missing
data to ecoflora@york.ac.uk and web errors to Dr Henry Ford hen3ryford@googlemail.com.
The current
version is being updated and users are encouraged to submit data that have been omitted. The ecological characteristics table has been boosted by 33,000 records from the PLANTATT dataset, kindly provided by M.O. Hill, covering 1637 of the species (including all the native taxa) and over 100 species have had their datasets updated from the Biological Flora papers in the Journal of Ecology. The uk distribution for all species has been enhanced by providing direct links to the NBN Gateway Distribution Maps. The associated fungi have been updated with some 3200 fungi and over 20,000 records. Photographs and descriptions are being added regularly
This
searches the database for all synonyms and returns the name, associated synonyms
and the status of each name.
This
enables you to search on an insect name and retrieve details on the plant
parts attacked, the type of attack, the primary and other hosts. If you wish
to search for those insects attacking a particular plant, please go to the
plant species pages.
This
allows you to retrieve all the species which conform to a particular value of
an ecological characteristic. There is a list of characteristics, their values, and notes available from this page .
Contact
the managers of the ecoflora with comments and new data
Links to some Biological, Environmental, scientific and
governmental web sites relevant to wildlife in the UK
This provides a description of the ecological characteristics tables, hints to photographers, etc. A complete data dictionary is not provided.
If you need to cite the database, this gives you the information you require.
The latest information on new features, updates, and proposed alterations to the database
This allows you to selet 20 species and any number of ecological characteristics and retrieve the data in tabular form
