Webpages concerning "Regions"
Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) introduction to the database.
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- Australian, Plant, Name, Index;, APNI;, names;, flora;, botany;
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/databases/apni.html
About the Australian National Botanic Gardens, the Australian National Herbarium, the Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, the Australian flora, Australian plants, botanical research and access to databases on living plants, herbarium specimens and photographs
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- botany, botanic, botanical, gardens, gardening, Australia, Australian, plant, plants, horticulture, flora, flower, flowers, education, conservation, research, taxonomy, systematics, ecology, image, images, photo, photographs, seeds
http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/
Vascular Plants of Henry W. Coe State Park, An Illustrated, Annotated Catalog, introductory page
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- Henry, W., Coe, State, Park, California, vascular plants, botany, floristics, floras
http://www.coestatepark.com/vascular_plants_of_henry_w__coe_state_park___an_illustrated__annotated_catalog.htm
This is the main page of the Noble Foundation Plant Image Gallery.
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- native, plants, ;, range, plants, forb ; forbs, grass, ;, grasses, ;, native, grasses, ;, range, grasses, tree, ;, trees, ;, shrub, ;, shrubs, ;, woody, vine, ;, woody, vines
http://www.noble.org/imagegallery/
Online floras and similar projects
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- Flora Online, e-flora, taxon treatment
http://www.efloras.org/
Distribution Maps of Vascular Plants in Hokkaido, Japan
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- Japan, japan, Hokkaido, hokkaido, botany, geobotany, phytotaxonomy, ecology, checklist, vascular, plant, vegetation
http://www.hinoma.com/maps/
This site contains a vegetative key, and vegetative descriptions, illustrated with images, to all climber species of central Guyana, South America
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- liana, vine, climber, lianas, vines, climbers, guyana, tropenbos, utrecht university, plants, vegetative key, family, taxonomy, mabura hill, south america, tropical plants, bignoniaceae, apocynaceae, aristolochiaceae, asteraceea, asclepiadaceae, combretaceae, connaraceae, convolvulaceae, cucurbitaceae, dichapetalaceae, dilleniaceae, dioscoreaceae, euphorbiaceae, gnetaceae, hippocrateaceae, ...
http://www.bio.uu.nl/~herba/lianas/
California habitats, desert, coastal, forest, brush habitat descriptions for Native Plant garden design.
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- common, plants, forest, inches, coastal, climate, precipitation, animals, notes, scrub, woodland, communities, species, this, community, that, from, acidic, sage, have, northern, very, usually, meadow, more, high, with, summer, where, chaparral, sagebrush, hard, cone, prairie, yellow, bromus, plant, marsh, salt, habitats, california, alkaline, juniper, soil, fell, grass, these, winter, riparian, ...
http://www.laspilitas.com/comhabit/plantcom.htm
Flora of tropical Malesia: Hoyas, Bulbophyllums, Amorphophallus, Ant plants and other epiphytes
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- Malesian Flora, Hoya, Bulbophyllum, Amorphophallus, Tacca, Dischidia, orchids, epiphytes, tropical asian flora, las orquideas, plants, tropical plant exchange, asian plants, nepenthes, Malaysian orhids, Indonesian orchids, PNG orchids, horticulture, in-situ, images, of, plants, anggrek, bunga, gesneriads, didymocarpus, henckelia, begonia, impatiens
http://members.tripod.com/asia_flora/
Flora of China Project. An international collaborative effort to publish the first English language account of China's vascular plants.
- Keywords:
- flora, floristics, botany, plants, seed plants, gymnosperms, angiosperms, China, Chinese, seed, plants, of, China, medicinal plants
http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/china/
The Flora of Northern Ireland web site contains species descriptions, 10km distribution maps and in most cases images of the wild plants that occur in Northern Ireland. The data used for the distribution maps is held in computerised form in the Centre for Environmental Data and Recording based within the Ulster Museum in Belfast.
- Keywords:
- flora, wildflowers, trees, ferns, wild, flowers, native plants, Northern Ireland, plants, native, distribution maps, images, species descriptions, Ulster Museum, botany, data recording, cedar, native, plants, in, Northern, Ireland, native, flora, in, Northern, Ireland, BSBI, MAGNI, EHS, Down, Derry, Tyrone, Antrim, Armagh, Fermanagh, Londonderry, CEDAR
http://www.habitas.org.uk/flora/
Reliable information about the plants and plant habitats of Florida.
- Keywords:
- gardening, landscape, botany, agriculture, wetlands, Florida, tropical, plants, mangroves, education, shopping, books
http://www.floridaplants.com/
Central Washington Native Plants. Photographs of both cordilleran and endemic species.
- Keywords:
- native, plants, native plants, photographs, Central Washington, Washington, Idaho, forest, flora, botany, species, trees, northwest, flowers, Stevens Pass, Leavenworth, Swauk, Blewett, Wenatchee, indigenous, environment, knapweed, photo, Enchantments, Columbia, river, desert, shrub, steppe, Northwest, ethnobotany, eastern, columbia, river, chelan county, flores, planta, indigena
http://www.cwnp.org/
http://pluto.njcc.com/~ret/Roosevelt/florimag.html
http://www.plantatlas.usf.edu/
http://www.isu.ru/insts/botsad/cbd/redlist/redlistbaikal.htm
http://www.botany.wisc.edu/wisflora/
http://www.jordanflora.com/
The wall flora of Malta contains some 140 species. The participation of plant families and life forms is discussed with regard to the types of walls. The Parietario-Antirrhinetum siculi is documented by plant sociological relevés. Oxalis pes-caprae is the most important alien species in the wall vegetation.
http://opus.tu-bs.de/opus/volltexte/1999/55/
http://www.botanic.co.il/a/catalog.asp
http://home.swipnet.se/~w-58871/flora/flora.html
http://www.nathimus.ku.dk/bot/fleth.htm
http://hua.huh.harvard.edu/FNA/
http://www.floramalesiana6.ph
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/natsci/herbarium/locfl/
http://www.hull.ac.uk/hullflora/
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/taes/tracy/regeco.html
http://www.canaryislandflora.com/
http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/pakistan/
http://www.floravarese.it/
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Wikipedia-Article "Regions"
- For other uses of this term, see also DVD Region codes and regional lockout. For the place-name Region in the works of JRR Tolkien, see Region (Middle-earth).
Region can be used to mean either:
It is worth noting that regions are found in the minds of humans and so regions can be of any size and that each region is unique in its own way.
Administrative regions
The word "region" is taken from the Latin regio, and a number of countries have borrowed the term as the formal name for a type of subnational entity (eg, the región, used in Chile). In English, the word is also used as the conventional translation for equivalent terms in other languages (eg, the область (oblast'), used in Russia alongside with a broader term регион).
Countries using administrative regions
The following countries use the term "region" (or its cognate) as the name of a type of subnational entity:
The Canadian province of Québec also uses the "administrative region" (région administrative).
Prior to 1996, Scotland was also divided into regions.
The government of the Philippines uses the region (in Filipino, rehiyon) when it's necessary to group provinces, the primary administrative subdivision of the country. this is also the case in Brazil which groups its primary administrative divisions (estados; "states") into grandes regiões (≈"greater regions") for statistical purposes, while Russia uses экономические районы ("economic regions") in a similar way.
The government of Singapore makes use of regions for its own administrative purposes. Similarly, the British government also makes limited use of regions for England.
The following countries use an administrative subdivision conventionally referred to as a region in English:
- Bulgaria, which uses the област (oblast).
- Russia, which uses the область (oblast').
- Ukraine, which uses the область (oblast').
China has five 自治区 (zìzhìqū) and two 特別行政區 (or 特别行政区; tèbiéxíngzhèngqū) which are conventionally translated as "autonomous region" and "special administrative region", respectively.
Geographical regions
A region can also be used for a geographical area; with this usage, there is an implied distinctiveness about the area that defines it. Such a distinction is often made on the basis of a historical, political, or cultural cohesiveness that separates the region from its neighbours.
Geographical regions can be found within a country (eg, the Midlands, in England), or transnationally (eg, the Middle-East).
Examples of geographical regions
See also