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Bird Song CD Series In the tropics, birds are good indicators of habitat type and condition. However, birds are more often heard than seen. Rapid inventories of bird populations depend upon knowledge of bird songs and calls. In collaboration with the Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, we have initiated a series of bird song compact disks (CDs) for South America. To date, we have released five such disks containing the vocalizations of almost 500 bird species along a single elevational transect (300 to 2500 m) in southern Peru. The CDs are available at www.birds.cornell.edu/lab_cds.html. <<back Birds of Peru Based on years of field research by the authors, two of whom are with ECP, this field guide will contain color plates and descriptions for identification as well as detailed ecological data on each species. It will be a long-lived tool for ecological research, inventory, and monitoring as well as an essential book for birders and ecotourists in Peru’s natural areas. We are partnering with Louisiana State University’s Museum of Natural Science and Cornell University’s Laboratory of Natural Sounds and have a publication contract with Princeton University Press. <<back Plants: Rapid Reference Collection and Rapid Color Guides  With a grant from the A. W. Mellon Foundation, ECP is reorganizing part of the Museum's herbarium into a dedicated reference collection for tropical plant identification. This rapid reference collection is designed specifically to accelerate the identification of tropical plants by organizing specimens into geographic regions and by including only representative examples of each plant species rather than all the variation and replication in the comprehensive herbarium. Increasing access to the Museum collections as conservation and research resources, digitized images of herbarium specimens and of living tropical plants are being made available as guides for use in field work and on the web.<<back vPlants The Field Museum, in collaboration with The Morton Arboretum and the Chicago Botanic Garden, has developed an online searchable database of the plants and fungi of the Chicago Region. The site provides conservationists, land managers, policy makers, students, researchers, and the general public with free access to about 100,000 records containing plant and fungal specimen data and high-resolution images of representative specimens. Currently, description pages for each of the approximately 3,000 plant and 1,000 fungal species are being added. These pages provide detailed information about each species, photos of the species, references, and county-level distribution information with links to the specimen record data. By integrating the collections of these three institutions, we have created the largest regional flora available online in the U.S. We are also adding partner institutions, such as the Illinois Natural History Survey, to expand the specimen collections that are available for searching. Detailed, easily searchable, georeferenced information on the historical distribution of plants and fungi in the Chicago Region is exceedingly valuable for the active restoration efforts in the Chicago Wilderness area. Visit www.vplants.org for more information. <<back |
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