Welcome to the Key to WA Soil Groups

Author:
Dr Shahab Pathan | Soil Resource Officer
Land and Water Assessment Program
Agricultural Resource Risk Management
Department of Agriculture and Food, WA
www.agric.wa.gov.au

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This tool uses Lucid Phoenix which requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), free from www.java.com.

WATTLE Acacias of Australia ver. 2. By B.R. Maslin

• This key is a revision of WATTLE Acacias of Australia that was published on CD in 2001. 
• WATTLE ver. 2 includes 1223 taxa of Acacia sens. lat. that occur in Australia. These include all formally described taxa of Acacia sens. str., Acaciella, Vachellia and Senegalia. Undescribed (phrase named) taxa and hybrids are included in the key where these entities exist in the public domain accompanied by a description.
• This interim edition of WATTLE ver. 2 does not include species profiles for the taxa. The fully implemented version of the key will be deployed on the Atlas of Living Australia site in the near future. Users will be notified here when this is about to occur.
• Descriptions and illustrations of taxa that were included in WATTLE ver. 1 (2001) can be sourced from the WorldWideWattle website (http://www.worldwidewattle.com/speciesgallery/browse.php?l=a); photographs of most taxa included in WATTLE ver. 2 are also available in this same place.

There are two options for this key are available:

Lucid Key Server Edition	Lucid Java Applet Player
Slightly less features but no Java Runtime Environment (JRE) required, only your browser - instant play!	More features but requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) to be installed.
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Interactive key  for the identification of 159 species of grasses of France. This key is illustrated with more than 1200 photographs or drawings. Fact sheets include detailed descriptions, key features, distributions, ecology and phytosociology information.
In addition, a comprehensive description of  Poaceae family is provided.

Published by:  Gilles Geneix
Cost:  Free
Author(s): Gilles Geneix

An identification and information tool for Pest Thrips in East Africa

This identification key is a significant step in, enhancing the information on thrips and their natural enemy diversity in East Africa and Africa at large. So far thrips taxonomists have largely considered Africa as “a dark region” in terms of availability of thrips diversity information. It includes over 1,400 pictorial illustrations for more than 100 species of thrips species belonging to nearly 60 genera in the families’ Aeolothripidae. Phlaeothripidae and Thripidae occurring in East Africa. It also includes a key to eight Eulophid thrips parasitoids belonging to four genera occurring in East Africa, which is a first of its kind. The key is accompanied with factsheets for all the thrips and parasitoid species with detailed taxonomic, biological, bio geographical and bibliographic information targeting a wide range of end-users such as students, thrips researchers, economic entomologists, quarantine officers, IPM practitioners and conservationist in Africa and beyond.

Features

• Project and key introduction with quick start guide.
• Slide preparation techniques.
• Introduction to thrips biology, economic importance, control strategies and thrips as tospovirus vectors.
• Biology of thrips natural enemies with a key to Entedoninae recorded in Africa.
• Glossary of morphological terms with particular attention to key characters for thrips and enemies.
• Interactive identification key to families, subfamilies and 104 economic important thrips species in East Africa.
• Factsheet fusion data base for all taxa with more than 1400 computerized photomicrographs, with notes on recognition, taxonomic identity, genus and species descriptions, similar or related species.
• Biology with notes to host plants and control strategies.
• Biogeography with links to survey sites in East Africa to stay up to date.
• Extensive library with about 1300 references.