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Windows: 32-bit (x86) processor, Windows XP/Vista/7.
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This CD-ROM contains information on nearly 900 mushrooms which occur in Britain and the continental lowlands. All species are illustrated with over 1100 beautiful colour photographs. Species are provided with short and pithy descriptions based on their appearance, spore print colour, (dis)colouration patterns, seasonal distribution, smell, taste and edibility or toxicity. Look-a-likes are listed of mushrooms which closely resemble related species. The status of rareness for threatened mushrooms was taken from the Red Data List. Beyond the scope of species descriptions, the CD-ROM also contains information on biological classifications, life cycles and ways of reproduction. A glossary and information on higher taxa are instantly available by clicking on hot links in the text. It is possible to identify mushrooms to species or genus level with an interactive key. The fun and entertaining quiz lets you test and increase your knowledge.

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This CD-ROM contains information on reptiles and amphibians occuring in the British Isles. Some species are common and are found throughout the Isles, others are only found locally. The system treats all 12 native species and 12 alien species (many of them breed succesfully in the UK). Three species native to the Channel Islands are included, two if which were also introduced elsewhere. Five species of sea turtles are presented as well. This user-friendly information system is intended as a quick reference tool to identify the species and learn about their habitats and habits. It holds short descriptions of each species and higher taxa. over 200 photographs, 10 sound files, a glossary of the most important terms, an overview of literature and pointers to some relevant websites. It is possible to bookmark species that have been spotted. This CD-ROM will be a valuable addition to your digital biodiversity library and is a must for nature lovers and amatuer biologists.

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Three dimensional animations, supported by authoritative narrations, explore the leaf surface and explain the functioning of the guard cells. The viewer is then taken inside the leaf to see the photosynthetic and conducting cells. Witness the dynamic events of guard cell movements, gas exchange and the transport of water and sugars. Animations also illustrate the forms of leaves and how they are modified for dry and aquatic habitats. Running times for Leaves are: Part 1: Organisation of the leaf, 2 min 17 sec; Part 2: Functioning of the guard cells, 1 min 59 sec; Part 3: Functioning of the mesophyll and veins, 3 min 2 sec; Part 4: Leaf modifications, 3 min 50 sec.

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Lemurs are threatened species that occur only on Madagascar and the Comoros. In cooperation with Conservatoire Vivant des Mascareignes and IUCN (with Red Book data), ETI produced this CD-ROM, which presents a completely revised monograph on all Lemurs. Detailed information about 61 (sub)species and 34 higher taxa is presented, with color drawings, photos, film-shots and sounds. Included are three types of fully illustrated computer assisted identification keys. The distribution information is stored in an interactive geographical information system. All text is hyperlinked: an illustrated glossary defines more than 1000 scientific terms. Thousands of literature references for this group are stored in a reference database. This CD-ROM is not only an excellent introduction to the Lemurs of Madagascar and the Comoros, but also a unique encyclopedical work.

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 The Macrobenthos of the North Sea project was initiated by ETI and the Zoological Museum at the University of Amsterdam. It provides users with a complete and up-to-date catalogue of macrobenthic species, including reliable standardized identification guides. In a series of five CD-ROMs the biological diversity in the shallow-water macrobenthos of the North Sea (down to 100 m) is documented. Volume II of this series contains detailed information on 651 species of Polychaeta, Platyhelminthes, Nemertina, Sipuncula and miscellaneous worm-like groups (Priapulida, Echiura and Pogonophora), including fully illustrated computer assisted picture keys, and an on-line glossary of used terms. This CD-ROM facilitates monitoring studies, and is a valuable and easy to use standard tool for identifying the North Sea benthos for marine biologists, environmentalists and students.

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This standard reference work was made in cooperation with the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). It contains up-dated information on more than 140 marine lobster species along with a fully illustrated interactive identification key, drawings, color illustrations and photographs, and distribution maps. This is an excellent source not only for fisheries scientists, but also for marine biologists, environmentalists and students. All text is hyperlinked: an illustrated glossary defines more than 500 scientific terms. All principal literature references are included in this program.

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Mac: PowerPC processor, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 or Mac OS X 10.1-10.5; Intel processor, Mac OS X 10.4-10.6.

Marine mammals are among the most interesting and threatened species on Earth. This CD-ROM gives a complete overview of all sea mammals of the world with detailed full color drawings, spectacular underwater photography, and sounds of species. Also included are an interactive identification key and distribution maps. Marine Mammals of the World is a CD-ROM for teachers, whale and dolphin watchers, environmentalists, and ocean lovers everywhere. All text is hyperlinked: an illustrated glossary defines more than 250 scientific terms. Principle literature references for this group are included in this program.

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This is a comprehensive account of all marine planarians known to date. A novel software tool allows for precise identification of 58 higher taxa and all 76 planarian species. Apart from the general characteristics of turbellarian flatworms, each species is fully covered in respect of habitus, alimentary and reproductive systems, ecology, distribution, synonyms and taxonomy. Drawings and micrographs illustrate the details of external appearance and anatomy. The glossary defines over 200 scientific morphological terms.

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Based on publications of the Linnean Society of London and the Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association in England, ETI publishes this updated and definitive source covering 83 marine planktonic ostracod species. The sea areas covered by this CD-ROM are the continental shelf around the British Isles and South Norway and the adjacent oceanic waters. Detailed drawings are given for each species, and where available unique full-color pictures. An illustrated interactive identification key allows the user to quickly identify these species that play an important role in watermass and water quality indication. A hyperlinked illustrated glossary defines about 300 specific scientific terms. All principal literature references for this group are included in this program. This CD-ROM makes an excellent introduction to this group of crustaceans and belongs in any modern scientific library.

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 This educational CD-ROM is unique in its range and perspective. It starts at an elementary level, and then step-by-step explains in more detail the key events of mitosis and meiosis. It demystifies the seemingly magical processes involved. It was produced especially for secondary school students, but also offers important resource material for undergraduate university courses. The facts and the whys and the hows of mitosis and meiosis are presented, in two separate programs. A broader perspective is also given, including how mitosis is related to the cell cycle, development and cell differentiation; and the importance of meiosis to life cycles and genetics. The material used is new, high quality, exciting and superbly presented. Students and teachers alike get to love these twin, lookalike programs. Their use of the principles of teaching, of up-to-date scientific knowledge, and a range of multimedia tools, combine to make them quite unique. 

«This is an excellent application for either individual learning or for whole class teaching. It is ideal because the pathways offered give the student true choice and involvement in the activities, resulting in real learning.» -- Hannah Strange (Nottinghill and Ealing High School, London) in Journal of Biological Education 

«It kept an AS class happily learning for 40 minutes with the silence only being broken with 'ooh cool - look at this....» -- Hannah Strange (Nottinghill and Ealing High School, London) in Journal of Biological Education

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A combination of videos of living plants and three dimensional animations. Combining images of living plant stages with computer simulations allows you to easily bridge the gap between the familiar plant and the micro-environment contained within it. Place yourself inside a moss plant! Computer animations take you in inside a clump of moss plants to illustrate external structure. You are then transported inside the tips of male and femlae stems where gametangia (sex organs) sperm release, fertilisation and embryo development are illustrated. There are three levels of increasing complexity: 1. Simple - no terminology or breaks, 8m:7s; 2. Intermediate - simple terminology and divided into sections with summaries, 13m:15s; 3. Advanced - contains scientific terminology, divided into sections, 11:59s.

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Mutations - changes to the gene make-up of an organism - are hugely important. Most of them are deleterious, in that they cause abnormalities and diseases. But sometimes they turn out to have neutral or even beneficial effects. In this way, mutations are ultimately responsible for all the genetic variation that we see in populations of humans and other species. And it is this genetic variation that allows evolutionary changes to take place. On top of all this, mutations enable us to study the genes themselves, to locate them, to study their inheritance, to isolate them, to correct them, to use them. Mutations, therefore, underpin virtually all aspects of genetics ! This is why we have put together this comprehensive program, in which we introduce the types, origins and consequences of both gene (DNA) and chromosome mutations; and then illustrate their short term effects (such as in cancer, inborn errors and disease) and their long term (evolutionary) importance. We included a large number of photographs, illustrations and animations, from humans, animals and plants.

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Mac: PowerPC processor, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 or Mac OS X 10.1-10.4 (Classic).
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This electronic reference guide provides multimedia information covering all 90 species of Sea Cucumbers living in northern Australia, including the Great Barrier Reef. An easy-to-use illustrated identification key leads the user to species descriptions, and a hyperlinked glossary defines over 150 specific terms. The species are illustrated with over 200 drawings and micrographs. This CD-ROM is an excellent up-to-date fully illustrated reference source for marine biologists, environmentalists, students, divers, and others.

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 This identification guide covers fish remnants (otoliths, spines, pharyngeal bones and chewing pads) that are found in marine sediments and in stomach contents, faeces or regurgitates of marine predators of fish. The guide, produced by Alterra and the Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, contains up-to-date information on these remnants of almost 100 fish species of the North Sea, Wadden Sea and adjacent fresh waters. This CD-ROM includes EM-photographs of otoliths and other hard parts, back-calculation rules that allow estimation of fish size and mass from these parts, and a fully hyperlinked database of the scientific literature on the fish species as prey-items of seabirds and marine mammals. This is an excellent source of information for marine ecologists, fishery biologists, geologists, environmentalists and students.

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A combination of videos of living plants and three dimensional animations. Combining images of living plant stages with computer simulations allows you to easily bridge the gap between the familiar plant and the micro-environment contained within it. Place yourself inside the pollen cone and seed cone! Three dimensional animations take you in inside the pollen cone and the seed cone to see reproductive structures such as sporangia, gametophytes and the archegonia. Witness dynamic events such as pollination, gametophyte formation, fertilisation, embryo formation and seed germination. There are three levels of increasing complexity: 1. Simple - no terminology or breaks, 15m:17s; 2. Intermediate - simple terminology and divided into sections with summaries, 19m:30s; 3. Advanced - contains scientific terminology, divided into sections, 16m:46s.

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This unique interactive CD-ROM testifies to the great wealth and diversity of edible fruits and nuts in South-East Asia, and is produced by ETI and PROSEA. The multimedia databases on this CD-ROM hold detailed information on some 120 (economically) important foodcrops, brief characteristics of another 270 species of lesser importance, and referrals to other PROSEA titles are given for nearly 400 species which are not primarily used for their fruit-, nut- or seed-production. Many of the species are illustrated by drawings and/or photo's. The hyper-linked program offers a matrix based identification system which holds information on secundary uses and geographical distribution. Also included are a list of South-East Asian references, a list of references used for the descriptions included, and a glossary that explains the terms used. This CD-ROM rightfully belongs in any scientific library and in reference collections of both botanists and crop experts as well as anyone dealing with food crops.

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This CD-ROM presents a complete and updated overview of the rattan and bamboo species of SE Asia, and is produced by ETI and PROSEA. It provides information on some 130 rattan species and over 75 bamboo species and includes detailed descriptions, videos on both commodities, colour photographs of the majority of species, botanical illustrations, a hyperlinked illustrated glossary of technical terms and a reference database with less-accessible literature from SE Asia. The hyperlinked program offers a matrix-based search possibility for species per country or secondary use. Rattans are the source of cane for the cane-furniture industry, while at the same time being used for a wealth of minor purposes locally. Most cane entering world trade is collected from the wild, and throughout much of South-East Asia rattan represents the most important forest product after timber. Bamboos have been of great importance in rural communities in tropical Asia for centuries. Their value or potential value has been largely underestimated. In recent years the commercialization of bamboo exploitation for commodities such as bamboo shoots, bamboo boards, chopsticks, pulp for paper manufacture, and bamboo handicrafts, has caused an increase in the demand for the raw material. This CD-ROM rightfully belongs in any scientific library and in the reference collections of botanists, rattan or bamboo experts as well as anyone dealing with rattans or bamboos.

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 This unique interactive CD-ROM presents a complete and fully updated treatment of the timber species of SE Asia, and is produced by ETI and PROSEA. The multimedia databases of this CD-ROM hold detailed information on 400 genera and 2900 timber-yielding species, including detailed descriptions of trees and timbers, enhanced search facility for wood properties, interactive wood anatomy identification system, photographs of tree habitats, high-resolution wood anatomy photographs, botanical drawings, a hyperlinked illustrated glossary of technical terms and a reference database. The versatile and easy to use computer information system is realized in ETI's Linnaeus II software. This CD-ROM rightfully belongs in any scientific library and in reference collections of both botanists and timber experts and is of interest to anyone dealing with timber.

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) is an international program to disseminate summarized knowledge about useful plants for workers in education, research, and industry. More than 1000 species in South-East Asia are known to yield vegetable products, but only 50 of these have developed into highly commercialized crops. This interactive CD-ROM describes about 100 important vegetables. It holds brief descriptions of 125 species of minor importance and lists 800 species that yield vegetables as a byproduct only. Also included in the hyper-linked program are a database of South-East Asian references, an illustrated glossary of terms, and a geographical information system that displays species distributions and allows geographical search. This authoritative volume is an excellent addition to any scientific library.

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Mac: PowerPC processor, Mac OS 8.6-9.2 or Mac OS X 10.1-10.4 (Classic).
This title is not compatible with Intel Macs. 

This taxonomic reference work was made by the experienced spongologists Rob van Soest, Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam and Bernard Picton and Christine Morrow, Ulster Museum, Belfast. It is a unique, comprehensive guide to shallow-water sponges occurring in the coastal waters of Western Europe between the Arctic and southern Portugal. The CD-ROM contains up-to-date information on 337 shallow-water sponges, including a fully illustrated multiple-entry key, text key and interactive distribution maps. All text is hyperlinked. This is an excellent source for marine biologists, environmentalists and students.

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Windows: 32-bit (x86) processor, Windows XP/Vista/7.
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 This multimedia CD-ROM presents unique up-to-date information on more than 400 European butterflies. This information is not available in regular field guides. All species are presented with superb colour drawings, pictures of living butterflies, and information on distribution and flight periods. Specific butterfly habitats are described and illustrated. A novel feature in this production is the display of trend and degree of occurence in each country over the last 25 years. An easy to use interactive tool allows you to find which butterfly can be expected in a particular geographic region, habitat, and flight period. This CD-ROM, compiled by specialists from the Dutch Butterfly Conservation, is a must for all European butterfly lovers and for all visitors who take delight in these fascinating insects.

 «It really is a marvellous tool, with many features that I have not yet used properly. De Vlinderstichting has done a wonderful job, and I expect it to become a standard work that will run into many future versions as the databases are expanded.» -- Rob Parker, butterfly conservation specialist, posted in the Amateur Entomologist's Society (AES) e-mail group

«There is no doubt that it is an excellent product, with scope for further refinement as time goes by. It installs smoothly, and produces everything it promises on the label.» -- Rob Parker"A short review cannot do justice to this excellent cd guide.» -- Richard Fox, Butterfly Conservation News, Number 81, Autumn 2002

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This CD-ROM, compiled by specialists, provides an up-to-date information system with concise descriptions, detailed drawings and color photographs of seedlings of 123 taxa of secondary forest trees representing 40 plant families. A user-friendly computer-aided identification key supports a quick and reliable identification of seedlings. An extensive glossary of terms and literature database completes the accessibility of this e-monograph. An important part of practicing sustainable forest management is the reforestation of forest areas that are damaged by fires or by other destructive activities like logging or mining. A wide variety of trees are used for this purpose. However, since individual plant species often have specific environmental requirements, some species are obviously more suitable for reforestation than others. This requires much emphasis on the correct identification of seedlings. The CD-ROM is a valuable information tool to enable (local) forest managers without a thorough botanical background to identify many of the secondary forest tree species of East Kalimantan.

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This CD-ROM guide by one of the leading world specialists on Turbellaria, L.R.G. Cannon of the Queensland Museum of Australia, represents a recent update for the taxonomy of this large and complex group. An interactive illustrated key to all families and subfamilies is included, as well as family and subfamily descriptions with a review of the included genera. Colorful videos depict the habits of various species. All text is hyperlinked and includes an illustrated glossary, defining more than 200 scientific terms, and the principle literature.

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This interactive multimedia CD-ROM presents a unique overview of some 400 plants cultivated by man. It is a digital encyclopedia compiled by botanists of the National Herbarium of the Netherlands and especially targeted at secundary schools, agricultural education, libraries and for those commercially interested. The information system on this CD-ROM offers various points of entry like: a commercial classification (trade product), a botanical classification (on the specific plant parts used) and a systematic classification. A handy interactive pictorial key helps to indentify the plants. For every plant in the database a short description, the types of use, and the geographic region where the species is grown is given. The CD-ROM holds over 1,200 quality illustrations of the plants, the used parts or products, and the crops. The distribution routes of the most importants crops are treated as well. The knowledge quiz makes it fun to learn to recognize the crops. 

This CD-ROM should not be absent in your digital library. - encyclopedia on plants and their uses - over 400 species in 90 economically important families - more than 1300 unique photographs - interactive quiz to improve your knowledge - computer aided identification tool - detailed descriptions and distribution information - hyperlinked glossay of terms - suggestions for teachers

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Seaweed represents a major component of marine ecosystems. It is used as food, fertiliser and as a resource for chemical constituents. This interactive multimedia DVD-ROM was compiled over a three year period and incorporates the expertise of almost 150 authorities from all over the world. The extensive information is organised in a number of categories covering cultivation, farming, utilisation, worldwide resources, socio-economics, recent developments in ecology, and applied phycology. The subjects are covered in detail and includes vivid examples ranging from food and cosmetics to medicine, with examples from major production centers worldwide and includes practical aspects of modern farming. The information is enriched by numerous high quality pictures and exclusive video footage. Extensive web reference links are provided to help locate additional information. This unique electronic reference system is the first in this field and holds more information than could ever be published in a book. World Seaweed Resources will enthuse the user and provide insight and practical, easily accessible hands-on information. The user-friendly nature of this DVD-ROM makes it ideal for teaching or self-study. It can be used as a stand-alone resource or to complement text books. It should be available to marine biologists in general and to workers in the seaweed farming community, and should certainly be in the personal library of all phycologists, whether professional or student. The production of World Seaweed Resources was sponsored by Degussa Texturant Systems.

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Yeasts are not only essential for the production of bread, beer and wine, but also play a major role in many more modern industrial processes, such as the production of enzymes, pigments, antioxydants etc. Moreover many yeasts are important as human pathogens, or as spoilage organisms in the food industry. This CD-ROM offers a multi-disciplinary approach to the identification of all known species of this fascinating group of micro-organisms and has been produced by leading experts in the field. It not only contains descriptions and photographs of the morphology, but also a complete set of physiological data as well as ribosomal DNA sequences. All these data can be used for an interactive identification of unknown yeast isolates. In addition there are hyperlinked introductory and explanatory texts, a glossary and a selection of important literature. 

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This taxonomic reference work, produced by ETI and the Zoological Museum of the University of Amsterdam, provides an up-to-date multimedia catalogue and interactive identification guide for almost 470 species of zooplankton (>1 mm) and micronekton occurring in the North Sea. This CD-ROM contains two types of identification keys (picture based and text based) and a taxonomic database holding names, synonyms, descriptions, illustrations and references. Groups treated are the Medusae, Siphonophora, Ctenophora, Chaetognatha, planktonic Tunicata and Polychaeta, pelagic Gastropoda and Cephalopoda, and a vast group of planktonic Crustacea, with the exception of Copepoda and larvae. Larvae of polychaetes, gastropods, bivalves and fishes are not included at species level; they are subject to a second version of this CD-ROM. All text is hyperlinked, enabling quick navigation through the information. This CD-ROM facilitates monitoring studies, and is a standard work for marine biologists, environmentalists and students to identify North Sea zooplankton and micronekton.

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