resources
At quinquenervia, we believe that information should be easily accessible and freely available. Our aim is to create high-quality and easy-to-understand guides to the living things in our local area, and to direct like-minded individuals to the right sources of information they need. This page serves as a repository for the educational resources we have created, as well as bookmarks that we use or think others with a similar passion may find useful, and keys to help identify species. These pages are constantly evolving, so please don’t hesitate to contact us at hello@quinquenervia.com if you encounter any errors or if you would like to contribute to this growing list of resources.
Ecology resources
General
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility
- Global Plants on JSTOR
- GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora
- iNaturalist
- International Barcode of Life
- International Plant Names Index
- Internet Archive
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
- Legume Data Portal
- Plants of the World Online
- ResearchGate
- SciHub
- Wikidata
- Wikipedia
- Wikispecies
- Wiktionary
- ZooKeys
Australia
- ABRS Databases and Online Resources
- Atlas of Living Australia (ALA)
- ALA Labs
- ALA Phylolink
- Australasian Systematic Botany Society Inc.
- Australia’s Bioregions (IBRA)
- Australian Association of Bush Regenerators (AABR)
- Australian Cultivar Registration Authority List
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Australian Mosses Online
- BirdLife Australia
- Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
- CSIRO Data Access Portal
- Flora of Australia Profile Collections
- Fungimap
- Plant Groups Profiled
- Research Data Australia
- Weeds Australia
New South Wales
- Eastern NSW Plot to PCT Assignment Tool
- NSW BAM Calculator
- NSW BioNet
- NSW BioNet Resources
- NSW Environment Research and Publications
- NSW Key Threatening Processes
- NSW PlantNET
- NSW Threatened Biodiversity Profile Search
- NSW Threatened Species Scientific Committee Determinations
- NSW WeedAlert
- NSW WeedWise
Other states
Herbaria
Journals and books
Glossaries
Species lists
- ABRS Lichen Checklist (ABRSL)
- Australian Algae List (AAL)
- Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)
- Australian Lichen Name Index (LNI)
- Australian Moss Census (AMC)
- Australian Moss Name Index (AusMoss)
- Australian Plant Census (APC)
- Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)
- Checklist of Australian Liverworts & Hornworts
- Checklist of Pacific Island Lichens
- Checklist of the Lichens of Australia and its Island Territories
- Fungi Classification
- Fungi Name Index (FNI)
Ecology keys
Flora – Australia
- Acacias of Australia (Wattle)
- Bryophytes of Australia
- Dicotyledons of Australia (to family)
- Environmental Weeds of Australia
- Eucalypts of Australia (EUCLID)
- Flowering Plants of Australia (to family)
- Grasses of Australia (AusGrass)
- Key to the Cassinia Group
- Peas of Australia
- Rubus Species of Australia
- Tropical Ferns and Lycophytes of Australia
- Tropical Rainforest Orchids of Australia
- Tropical Rainforest Plants of Australia
- Vascular Plants of Australia
Flora – New South Wales
Vertebrates – New South Wales
Invertebrates – Australia
- Aquatic Arthropoda of Australia (to order)
- Aquatic Beetles of Australia (to family)
- Aquatic Crustacea of Australia (to family)
- Aquatic Flatworms of Australia (to class and order)
- Aquatic Hemiptera of Australia (to family)
- Aquatic Invertebrates of Australia (to phylum and class)
- Aquatic Molluscs of Australia (to family)
- Carrion Flies of Australia
- Caterpillars of Australia (to family)
- Freshwater Arachnids of Australia
- Heterobranch Sea Slugs of Australia (NudiKey)
- Hymenoptera of Australia (Ants, Bees, Wasps, and Sawflies)
- Insect Families of Australia
- Jumping Spiders of Australia
- Lace Bugs of Australia
- Ladybirds of Australia
- Scarab Pests of Australia
- Soft Scale of Australia
- Spider Mites of Australia
- Spiders of Australia (to subfamily)
- Stink Bugs of Australia
- Thrips of Australia
Invertebrates – New South Wales
- Christmas Beetles of New South Wales
- Dung Beetles of Eastern New South Wales
- Flower Chafers of New South Wales
- Leaf Beetles of New South Wales