Descriptions of the sites are linked by this graphic () to previously appearing daily descriptions. If that link failed in my monthly checking of the links, the following symbol will be shown instead (). Particularly authoritative sites are marked with an exclamation point ( - I am still in the process of adding these). All links were last checked on 9 June 1999 (Total links checked: 3015) by CyberSpyder Link Check. This month's entries are resting in a temporary file until the end of the month.

Grass Genera of Texas - checklist and illustrated dichotomous key to the Poaceae (or Grass Family, =Gramineae)

Louisiana Ecosystems & Plant Identification: An Interactive Virtual Tour - plants and 360° images of wetland and upland habitats of Southern Forest with detailed pages on about 200 plants

Gecko GrassWorlds - parameter-rich PC software simulating predation conflict in grasslands

Kurtz-Fernhout Software: Garden with Insight - free PC software that simulates garden conditions for many parameters

Gecko Woods - parameter-rich PC software simulating competition and predation in a Northeast US forest

Kyrk: Cell Biology Animations - animations cell biology topics, including movies on cell anatomy, organelles, membranes, diffusion, glycolysis, photosynthesis, nucleic acids, mitosis and more

Carnegie Plant Cell Imaging - Quicktime movies, protocols and articles on molecular imaging with fluorescent probe constructs, transformation and confocal microscopy, featuring mitosis, organelles, microtubules and more

Phyllotaxis - applets, illustrations, discussions, exercises and research papers on leaf positioning from a botanical and mathematical perspective

Figs and Fig Wasps - biology of the fig wasp and its relationship with the pollination and fertilization of figs, with movie!

Frog Calls - studying decline of frog populations in the wild and our neighborhoods

Plant Cell Biology on CD - confocal and electron microscope images of plant cell organelles and tissues

NOVA: Orchid Hunter - orchid images, adaptations and famous amateur scientists from history

Virtual Classroom Biology - images, explanations and exercises on basic biology topics

ExploreLearning: Photosynthesis - ecological physiological modeling of phtotosynthesis action spectrum, intensity and oxygen production

ARKive - Images of Life on Earth - archive of biological images, particularly endangered and threatened species

NOBEL SITE: Microscopes Help Scientists Explore Hidden Worlds - phase contrast, fluorescence, transmission electron and scanning tunneling microscopy are featured

NOVA: Deep Sea Invasion - a marine alga presents a classic example of the danger of invasive species

Plants In Motion - QuickTime movies featuring photoperiodism, phototropism, geotropism, nutation, circadian movement, flower opening, growth, as well as entertainment

Science Friday - weekly science radio show on National Public Radio (NPR)

Powers of Ten - From intergalactic space to the interior of a proton, at powers of 10 meters per view

Science Behind Tobacco - farming, manufacturing and health risks involved in tobacco use

BOTANY Online - The Internet Hypertextbook - incredible online botany textbook

Commitment to Origins: On Good Grounds - supporting sustainable coffee production while maintaining biodiversity

Virtual Paleobotany Laboratory - geological history of plants and tools to understand paleobotany

Plants of Western Washington Collection - Model for MSIE-based digital image collections

Blooming of the Titan Arum - Rare blooming event of the Titan Arum

Palmyra Atoll - Rainforest at Sea - high bandwidth site on a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching - peer-reviewed and rated web sites are listed and assessed

Deep Green Hyperbolic Trees - interactive phylogenetic tree of green life

OwlCam Home Page - webcam viewing the life of two owls

Spring in Northern Cyprus - virtual tour of Cyprus

One World Journeys - Eco-images gallery and fancy web effects..

Desert Botanical Garden - virtual tours of arid-adapted xerophytes

A Tenerife Photo-Essay - Photo-essay and botanical and local information about plants of the Canary Islands.

DNA From the Beginning - tutorial and reference material on molecular biology

Big Bend National Park - virtual tour

Omnicyber Plant Family Key - online taxonomic dichotomous key

Costa Rican Rain Forest Ecology Field Trip - slide show of tropical rainforest

The Tallest, Biggest and Oldest Trees - slide show for teaching

Joe Armstrong's Course Sites - economic botany photo essays on cassava, coir, paper, rubber

Visual Models of Morphogenesis - fractal algorithms and models of virtual lifeforms are presented with QT movies

Plants In Motion - QuickTime (QT) movies on phototropism, geotropism, nutation, flower opening, plant growth

The Biology Project - interactive online tutorials for Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Mendelian Genetics, Immunology, Chemicals and Human Health, Developmental and Molecular Biology

Lick Creek Park - a virtual tour

Protein Synthesis - tutorial, mRNA, ribosome, translation

Virtual Classroom - University of Connecticut WWW courses

Access Excellence Activity Exchange - classroom exercises and multimedia mystery site

Virtual Galápagos - islands, biogeography, wildlife, history, expeditions, QTVR views

Apple's QuickTime Software - FTP site for QTVR virtual reality and QT movie viewers (free!)

Virtual Forest - CD-ROM model site for virtual reality of forest ecology and tree identification

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Virtual Laboratory - a model virtual lab site on antibody research

Virtual FlyLab - model genetics site using Drosophila

Plants in Motion - QT movies and GIFs on phototropism, flower opening, plant growth

Missouri Botanical Garden - Research, education, images, virtual tours, floras, databases

The Navasota Flora - Virtual Tour (SE Texas), angiosperm families site, lots of photos

PBIO 250 Lecture Notes - Plant Taxonomy - Model for multimedia use in lecture notes, nice external links

Virtual Plants: 3D Measurement and Simulation of Morphogenesis - Computer-simulated plants

Cells Alive!! - Multimedia cell animations

HomeArts: Bloom! - Hearst gardening site

Seeds of Life - multimedia introduction to seeds

Virtual Garden - Information on growing plants

University of Delaware Botanic Gardens - Pictorial and tour

Flynn Bogs foray - Flynn bogs, TX

This service is organized by Scott Russell through the Department of Botany and Microbiology of the University of Oklahoma. If you have any comments for the improvement this page or nominations for links, please contact me by email (srussell@ou.edu).