Almost without exception, these sites are free ecological and natural systems information and resource sites and other related links.
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flora
vascular plants
Flora Databases Victorian Vascular Plant Census Virtual Herbarium distribution maps Victorian Flora - a private plant picture site Flora of Australia online ANBG Australian Flora Resources page Australian botanical database resources ASGAP plant images Swinburne flora image bank PlantNET (NSW site, but has many common species) World Wide Wattle home page Plantnet's Wattle Web An introduction to the Eucalypts Eucalink: a web guide to Eucalypts Conifers.org Australian Native Plant Society photo gallery Greening Australia's Gardening with native plants Australian National Botanical Gardens home page Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research home page GreenNet Australia home page Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research Interactive CD Keys NRM Navigator search engine The Encyclopedia of Life Florabank native seed resource site Bibliography of Australian plant identification literature Searching either Google Images, Bing Images, or PicSearch for flora species is an easy way of getting pictures of species for quick ID confirmation purposes grasses
DPI native grasses page GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora Native grasses in the vineyards Native grasses in pasture Bio-diversity in the paddock - a land managers guide Grass, cows and kangaroos Stipa Inc. - Benefits of native grasses The Native Grass Menagerie Grass identification handbook for temperate Australia 24 papers on grasses from a Native Grasses Association conference Kangaroo Grass: a keystone species for restoring weed-invaded temperate grassy woodlands The Grassy Groundcover Research Project Some grasses, rushes and sedges More grasses, rushes and sedges Weedy grasses in Victoria Victorian seagrasses About seagrass beds ferns
Australian National Botanical Gardens Ferns The ANBG Fern Pages Pteridophytes - the ferns and their allies Australian Ferns and Fern Allies images Fern and fern allies identification key orchids
Retired Aussies - A great private site for orchids and other stuff Orkology Australian orchids Orchidspecies.com 10,000 orchids fungi, lichen & bryophytes
ANBG Fungi pages Interactive catalogue of Australian fungi ANBG Aboriginal use of fungi Australian Lichens checklist Checklist of Australian liverworts and hornworts Mosses, liverworts and hornworts site RGB Ausmoss Freshwater algae database RBG Fungi, Lichens and Bryophytes CD’s and posters Fungimap, a project for volunteers to record fungi distribution Fungibank is a site about including fungi in revegetation Dr. Tom May on wood rotting fungi Key to the major groups of mushrooms A visual key for mushrooms Bill Leithhead's amazing Fungi site What does Myrtle Rust look like? weeds
CSIRO report: Jumping the Garden Fence Invasive Species Council home page DPI Victoria’s A to Z of weeds A to Z of Australian weed species Weeds Australia search engine Weed CRC weed status page Advisory list of weeds of Victorian coastal plains and heathy forests DPI Invasive Plants site Become a Weed Spotter DPI Weed Spotter Newsletters CSIRO invasive plants page Weedy grasses in Victoria Blue Mountains Weeds - good info Herbiguide, a site with weed photos, drawings and detailed descriptions threatened species
DEWHA Species Profile and Threats Database FFG Victorian threatened flora, fauna and communities, a 14 page list DSE Rare or Threatened Plants in Victoria EPBC List of Threatened Flora Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia IBCN Red List of threatened species Lots more threatened species and communities links ecological vegetation classes
Short explanation of EVCs and bio-regional conservation status EVC Benchmarks for the Gippsland Plain Bio-region Victorian Resources Online EVC page Biodiversity Interactive map - find an EVC land restoration
Bringing Back the Bush ANBG ecosystem restoration page Definitions of ecological integrity Australian River Restoration Centre Information & knowledge resource kit Farm business and biodiversity Land for Wildlife home page Land for Wildlife DPI page Trust For Nature conservation covenants EcoTender & Bush Tender - get paid to manage your land well Habitat Restoration Fund The Bradley sisters biography page Landcare Port Phillip & Westernport regional & other websites
Indigenous nurseries Melbourne region CERES Southern bayside foreshores The Bega Valley community website with many native flora, weed and fungi photosSwan Bay Environment Association Swan Bay regional flora lists with some pictures. Many species common to this side of the pond Victorianflora.com - a good private site Blue Wedges Port Philip Conservation Council Victorian National Parks Association website Australian Network for Plant Conservation links pages Australian Native Orchid Society (ANOS) Nepean Conservation Group website Peninsula Speaks Kananook Creek Association Friends of Sherbrooke Forest Balcolme Estuary Rehabilitation Group SWIFFT My Environment.NET South Eastern Centre for Sustainability Environment East Gippsland The Wilderness Society Environment Victoria Friends of the Earth Melbourne The Rainforest Information Centre The Thin Green Line worldwide wildlife ranger family support Environment Victoria's long list of affiliated organisations Mornington Peninsula Bushland Restoration web group law & legislation
Victoria's Native Vegetation Management: A Framework for Action The Vegetation Gain Approach DSE Vegetation Quality Assessment Manual Vegetation Quality Assessment primer using the Habitat Hectares method Environment Defenders Office advocacy WebLaw: environmental law information The RAMSAR Covention on Wetlands Many more Australian legal biodiversity framework links here grants
Online Grants Link (Federal Government site) CMA Grants Guide download Victorian Volunteer Small Grants training & volunteering
Chisholm Conservation & Land Management certificate courses Greening Australia Habitat Conservation Management Course Conservation Volunteers Australia The Volunteer Coordinators Network (Natural Areas) Manual |
animalia
birds
Birdlife Australia (BOCA + Birds Australia) Australasian Bird Image Database ANBG birds checklist Birds in Backyards ABC WILDsounds archives: birds Top 40 bird calls Quicktime audio files Bird calls from the Asia Pacific region Birds Australia EagleCAM BOCA Bird Observers Club PENBOC Peninsula Bird Observers Club Birdway - heaps and heaps of birds other fauna sites
OzAnimals.com AustralianFauna.com Museum Victoria’s Critterbase Skulls Mammals Lizards Skinks and more skinks Even more skinks Amphibian Research Centre Frogs of the Mornington Peninsula. This site has frog calls on it for various other regions too Ed McNabb's frog call and owl call CD's Nightlife of South-Eastern Australian Forests EPBC Act List of Threatened Fauna Faunatech Austbat wildlife research equipment affordable infra red wildlife cameras
underwater
Native fish Native fish links Find a saltwater fish Reef Watch citizen science surveying Museum Victoria Nudibranch page Blue-ringed octopuses The Sea Slug Forum ArgoSearch - "Paper Nautilus" citizen science ferals
Feral.org.au RabbitScan citizen science - dob in a bunny FoxScan - you can dob in a fox too Invasive Species Council Invasive species Invasive Animals CRC Fox page The Fox DNA project Indian Mynahs Birds in Backyards - Introduced Birds fauna rescue & first aid
fauna first aid short-term care for fauna AWARE local wildlife rescue and carers insects
CSIRO Insect ID pages The Entomological Society of Victoria Invertebrates Key, a step-by-step ID What bug is that? The Insectarium Brisbane Insects - very good private site Aussie Bee - there are over 1500 native bees.. About native bees Butterflies Butterfly House, lots of Oz butterflies Australian Butterflies Photographed Insect and other wildlife images Australian insects by common name Ozanimals.com Australian insects Medical Entomology - things that bite Anatomical Atlas of Flies - amazing! Spiders Victorian spiders Yet more spiders Web2Spider- identify spiders by their spider webs More webs more flora and fauna sites
Museum Victoria's free Ask An Expert page Victorian Field Naturalists website Peninsula Field Naturalists The Victorian Naturalist journal Museum Victoria's Forest Secrets page Melbourne University Forest and Ecosystem Science Atlas of Living Australia - under development Melbourne area environmental report bibliography Landscape Logic A free Australian botanical name spell-checker dictionary add-in for Microsoft Word Phythoptera die back Download IFFA Indigenotes IFFA also have a good links page soils/geology
Soils/landforms on the Mornington Peninsula Peninsula soils map Sites of geological and geomorphological significance in the region PP&WP geomorphological units Soil carbon fact sheet Soil carbon sequestration website planning and mapping
Nearmap.com Hi-resolution sequential aerials How to create shared collaborative Google maps Biodiversity interactive map Victoria's planning schemes Mornington Peninsula planning scheme page DPI Earth Resources Store (much of it for $0.00) Planning scheme website Planning maps online Land and Survey Spatial Information (LASSIE) Federal Vegetation Mapping and Monitoring Links DSE interactive map page Melbourne Water index of river condition Groundwater online Strategic Overview for the Gippsland Plain Bioregion National Vegetation Information Systems vegetation mapping and monitoring links Australian online coastal information site Maps of Australia - from the earliest to the present Old maps on the web fire
Fireplan prescribed burn plan map Planned burns this season (July to July) Fire as a management tool Download DSE fire operations plans and maps Have your say on planned burns DPI Victorian Resources Online Australian Natural Resources Atlas Protected Matters search tool DSE Forest Explorer Drought in Australia The Great Australian Drought Bushfires in Victoria 1851 Black Thursday Summary of Major Bush Fires in Australia Since 1851 CSIRO report on the 2003 alpine fires, exposing the "Alpine grazing reduces blazing" mythology kooris
ABC Indigenous language map Wikipedia's Kulin Nation page Wikipedia's Bunerong page Koorie History. A collection of State Library references Gary Foley's Koori History Website Beth Gott on bush tucker in the ANBG Aboriginal languages of Australia miscellany
Trove: the National Library search hub The Biodiversity Heritage Library The National Archive Photo Search The National Library Picture Australia online archive The Public Record Office of Victoria MorningtonPeninsulaLocalHistory blog Australiana titles at the Free Read ebook site A list of Australian plant collectors and illustrators 1780’s to 1980’s The Flower Chain: the early discovery of Australian plants How to collect & press herbarium specimens Edible plants in Australia Cam Walker's Mountain Journal blog eco-shout independent Melbourne online eco press Sustainable Gardening Australia home page eco-shout's green directory Hancock Watch - Victoria's forest destruction documented... Black Rainbow Printing - What is environmentally sound paper? Green printing software Many more links here on the ANPC links page
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