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    By: Caroline Thompson
    Science Reference Librarian
    Updated April 2007

Botany Research Guide:
Getting Started

Reference Guides:
Guide to Information Sources in the Botanical Sciences. 1996. (Ref. QK 45.2 D3 1996)
NetLibrary

Information Sources in the Life Sciences. 1997. (Ref. QH 303.6 I54 1997)

Using the Biological Literature: A Practical Guide. 2002. (Ref. QH 303.6 D39 2002)


Style Manuals
Author's Handbook of Styles for Life Science Journals.
1996. (Ref. R 119 A85 1996)

Scientific Style and Format. 1994. (Ref. T 11 S386 1994)
Additional information on CBE documentation may be found at  http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/
DocCBE. html
.


Dictionaries
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Botany.
1992. (Ref. QK 9 C67 1992)
Revised in 1998 as Dictionary of Plant Sciences, 2nd ed.  (NetLibrary)

Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ecology. 1994. (Ref. QH 540.4 C66 1994) Revised in 1998 as Dictionary of Ecology, 2nd ed.  (NetLibrary)

Dictionary of Biology. 2000. (Ref. QH 302.5 D5 2000)

Dictionary of Plant Names. 1999. (Ref. QK 9 S337 1999)


Encyclopedias
Encyclopedia of Environmental Biology.
3 vols. 1995. (Ref. QH 540.4 E52 1995)

Flora of North America: North of Mexico. 2 vols. 1993. (Ref. QK 110 F55 1993)

Life on Earth, 6th ed. 2 vols. 2002. (Ref. QH 541.15 B56 L54 2002)

Toxic Plants of North America. 2001. (Ref. QK 100 N6 B87 2001)

Trees of Florida. 1994. (Ref. QK 154 N44 1994) & FWB

Handbooks
Coastal Plants From Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral. 2000. (Ref. QK 122 S78 2000)

The Ferns of Florida. 2000. (Ref. QK 525.5 F6 N46 2000)

Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States. 1993. (Ref. QK 125 T55 1993) See also: Encyclopedia of Ferns (Ref. SB 429 J66 1987), Smithsonian Guide to Seaside Plants of the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts (Ref. QK 122 D86 1987), and Tidal Marsh Plants (Ref. QK 125 E35 1990).

Guide to Flowering Plant Families. 1994. (Ref. QK 115 Z65 1994)

Guide to the Vascular Plants of Florida. 2003. (Ref. QK 154 W865 2003)

Guild Handbook of Scientific Illustration. 2003. (Ref. Q 222 G85 2003)

National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers. 2 vols. 2001. (Ref. QK 112 N53 2001)

Soft Corals and Sea Fans. 2001. (Ref. QL 377 C6 F33 2001)

Wild Flowers of the United States. 6 vols. 1966. (Ref. QK 115 R5) See also:  American Wildflower Florilegium (Ref. QK 112 A43 1992), A Guide to Wildflowers of the Mid-South (Ref. QK 124 S64), The National Wildflower Research Center's Wildflower Handbook (Ref. SB 439 N38 1989), and Wildflowers: A Quick Identification Guide to the Wildflowers of North America (Ref. QK 115 M58 1987).

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