ML083390027

SEIS Reference - Illinois Plant Information Network

ML083390027
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Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	01/23/2002
From:	US Dept of Agriculture, Forest Service
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USDA Forest Service RWU NE-4153 Illinois Plant Information Network RWU NE-4153, USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, Delaware, Ohio, USA Delaware, OH Home Project Home ILPIN Last updated: January 23, 2002

Contact:

Anantha Prasad Illinois Plant Information Network (ILPIN)

Taxonomic, biologic, geographic, and ecologic information on 3209 Illinois vascular plant taxa.

Species Descriptions Background Species List by County (includes Distribution Maps)

Background:

ILPIN was designed to provide many different types of information about ALL of the vascular plant taxa found in Illinois. At this site, you can search on a species (by scientific or common name), and retrieve all the information we have compiled on the species, as well as a map of its known distribution among the counties in Illinois. Over 130 variables were evaluated for each species, though seldom will all variables have data. This is a start, but a tremendous amount of information still needs to researched and/or compiled. The variables are presented in the input form, used in the compilation process, and described in the document, input form descriptors.

ILPIN was developed by Louis Iverson (liverson@fs.fed.us), currently employed by the USDA Forest Service, 359 Main Road, Delaware, OH 43015. Data were complied from numerous sources by David Ketzner and Jeanne Karnes, at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Nomenclature for taxa follow:

Mohlenbrock, R.H. 1986. Guide to the vascular flora of Illinois. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, IL.

Work was conducted and sponsored by the Illinois Natural History Survey, 607 E. Peabody, Champaign, IL 61820. Funding was also provided by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The work was primarily done during the period 1984-1992; this current effort is to make the data more readily available via the web. Thanks to Anantha Prasad (USDA Forest Service) for preparing the Javascript for this site.

Please realize that the database is far from complete; much of the information just is not available.

Common names are not available for all species, and many species have more than one common name. Here, only one (if available) is given; other common names are presented in the data for http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/ilpin/ilpin.html (1 of 3)12/2/2008 10:49:26 AM

USDA Forest Service RWU NE-4153 Illinois Plant Information Network individual species.

Citation for this database:

Iverson, L.R., D. Ketzner, and J. Karnes. 1999. Illinois Plant Information Network. Database at http://

www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/ilpin/ilpin.html. Illinois Natural History Survey and USDA Forest Service.

Other publications about ILPIN (reprints available from Louis Iverson):

Iverson, L.R., A. Prasad, and D.M. Ketzner. 1997. A summary of the Illinois flora based on the Illinois Plant Information Network. Transactions of the Illinois State Academy of Science 90:41-64.

Iverson, L.R., and A. Prasad. 1998. Estimating regional plant biodiversity with GIS modelling.

Diversity and Distributions 4:49-61.

Species Descriptions (includes Distribution Maps):

The species list has links to the species description and the maps that show the county distribution of the species.

Select species by Genus (Netscape > 4.0 or InternetExplorer >4.0):

A B C D E FG H I J K LM N OP Q RS T UV W XY Z OR you can browse the entire species list of 3209 taxa (~ 850 KB) by clicking HERE If you are using an OLDER browser peruse all the species by clicking HERE (~ 413 KB)

List Species by County:

You can list the species by using a county map or an alphabetized list of counties.

List species using county map Send any web-page related comments to Anantha Prasad http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/delaware/ilpin/ilpin.html (2 of 3)12/2/2008 10:49:26 AM

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