BioLib is an international encyclopedia of plants, fungi and animals.
Apart from taxonomic system you can visit our gallery, glossary, vernacular names dictionary, database of links and literature, systems of biotopes, discussion forum and several other functions related to biology.
It is a non-commercial educational project intended to be used both by experts and general public. Its content can be expanded by user contributions.
We redesigned the main page of BioLib. You'll find there an image of the day box and random tips on how to use BioLib more effectively, links to some important functions and - like before - brief statistics, news and history of changes.
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We've changed many things in last months. Functions for importing taxonomic citations, lots of changes in functions for adding taxa, scientific, vernacular names and images. Users can help us confirm the identifications of images in gallery and even unregistered users can propose determination changes.
Lot of time was spent working on a tool that will allow users to translate user interface of BioLib into other languages. While the tool is nearly finished, we're looking for people who will help us to test it and to translate some of the texts.
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| Taxa: | 715730 |
| Scientific names: | 994999 |
| Vernacular names: | 257301 |
| Images: | 110280 |
| Terms in glossary: | 4809 |
If you're interested only in certain taxonomic group, for example only plants or even more narrow group, you can restrict some of the functions (such as Search function) to the selected group - so that for example only species of plants are returned in search results.
Taxon restriction (filtering) can be set in Settings function. This way you will restrict functions globally, BioLib will remember the settings and use it on all functions that can be restricted to taxonomic group. These functions can be also restricted locally, for example for one single search, and the filter is lost when you leave the function.
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