2. Scratchpads
A flexible online resource for biodiversity
hosted by Natural History Museum, London.
In the first year (2007) 466 people from
more than 30 countries registered for
Scratchpads.
In Aug 2011 there were 3466 active users in
more than 60 countries. 363,000 pages of
content since March 2007.
Currently 314 Scratchpad sites, one of which
is GrassWorld and another is AusGrass2.
16. GrassWorld Menu Items
Descriptions of World Grasses
Global Distribution Maps
Check List of World Grasses
Classification
Historic Literature
Generic Descriptions
How to reference this site
Interactive Keys
Maps -TDWG
Published Grass Illustrations and Images
References
World Grass Floras
Agrostologists of Note
Useful Links
19. Global Distribution Maps
One global map for each
species
12,100 species
3 people inputting data from
continual upgrades of the
information in the DELTA
editor since May 2011
Sep 2012 – midway through
letter S.
Future plans are to colour
code where the distribution is
naturalised.
29. Issues relating to Generic Circumscriptiom
of Grasses
The selection and use of characters
Polyphyly, Paraphyly and Monophyly
Parsimony
Monotypic genera
Generic concepts (circumscription by
morphology and/or molecules)
34. Generic Descriptions
At this stage
there is no
morphological
data in these
descriptions. it
is planned to
compile these
using the DELTA
progam
gesumm
35. Interactive Keys
Not presently online but
will cross-link from
Identifylife
These will be in English,
French, German and
Spanish.
The INTKEY keys in
these 4 languages are all
ready to be uploaded.
36. Published Grass Illustrations
Achlaena piptostachya
Illustrations (Books): A.S.Hitchcock, Manual of the Grasses of the West Indies (1936).
Achnatherum altum
Illustrations (Books): G.E.Gibbs Russell el al, Grasses of Southern Africa (1990).
Achnatherum aridum
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum arnowiae
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum breviaristatum
Illustrations (Books): S-L Chen et al, Flora of China, Illustrations, Poaceae (2007).
Achnatherum bromoides
Illustrations (Books): N.Feinbrun-Dothan, Flora Palaestina 4 (1986).
Achnatherum chingii
Illustrations (Books): S-L Chen et al, Flora of China, Illustrations, Poaceae (2007).
Achnatherum contractum
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum coronatum
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum curvifolium
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum diegoense
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007).
Achnatherum duthiei
Illustrations (Books): S-L Chen et al, Flora of China, Illustrations, Poaceae (2007).
Achnatherum eminens
Illustrations (Books): M.E.Barkworth et al, Flora of North America north of Mexico Vol 24 Poaceae, part 1
(2007); R.McVaugh, Flora Nova-Galiciana Vol.14 Gramineae (1983).
41. Useful Links
AVH
Angiosperm Phylogeny
AusGrass2
CNWG
DELTA
GRIN
Gateway to African Plants - Poaceae
Generic Synonyms (Kew)
Global Compendium of Weeds
GrassBase & Synon
Grasses of Argentina
Grasses of Brazil
Grasses of China (FoC)
Grasses of Flora Zambesiaca
Grasses of Madagascar
Grasses of Mongolia
Grasses of NZ
Grasses of North America
Grasses of Pakistan
Grasses of Taiwan
Grasses of Zimbabwe
IPNI
IdentifyLife
Phylogenetic Classification of Poaceae
TROPICOS
The Plant List Poaceae
Wikipedia English
Wikipedia French
Wikipedia German
Wikipedia Spanish
43. Further Information
Bibliography, Maps (TADWG and GBIF), Google Scholar,
Wikipedia, Images (Flickr, Morphbank, Yahoo), Molecular databases and many others
66. GrassWorld and AusGrass2: The future
GrassWorld
Generic Descriptions using gesumm
Global maps – native and naturalised distributions
Images
Type specimen Images
Blogs and Groups
Interactive keys (Intkey and Lucid) to both Genera and Species on Identify Life
Newsletter
AusGrass2
Morphological data where missing
Brush up on links from keys and synonyms
Interactive keys (Intkey and Lucid) to both Genera and Species on Identify Life
Add more images
Newsletter
67. Scratchpad2
Line wrap problem fixed
Maps with colour separation (useful for weed distribution)
Integrated mapping tools - dynamically display point locality data,
regional data and shape files as overlays on a Google Map
Over 2012 a number of additional enhancements are planned.
These include:
Integrated Single Sign On (SSO), (with author-ID)
Proper Globally Unique Identifiers beyond URL’s
Scratchpad site registry with metadata and visualisations
concerning content in all the Scratchpads and author level metrics
on content
Rebuild of http://Scratchpads.eu, focusing on content within sites
rather than the Scratchpad infrastructure
Identification key building and species database visualisations
derived from character data in the matrix editor
Centralised services on controlled vocabularies
Phylogenetic analytical services
Improved training functionality
68. Acknowledgements
Yucely Alfonso and Dan Healy (BRI) for many hours
of data input
Kehan Harman and Maria Vorontsova (K) for use and
transfer of Grassbase data and RBG Kew, especially
Derek Clayton, for the use of this data
Gilberto Ocampo (CAS), Philip Sharpe (Coolum),
Hildemar Scholz (B) and Philippe Morat (P) for
translating the Delta character set to Spanish, German
and French.
Irina Brake (BM) and Isa Vandevelde (Natural
Sciences Museum, Belgium) for Scratchpad tutoring.