Flora of the British Isles app for iPhone and iPad


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Reference Education
Developer: ETI BioInformatics
16.99 USD
Current version: 1.1, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 02 Dec 2010
App size: 711.08 Mb

This e-flora of the British Isles is part of a series of mobile systems for identifying species in nature. They were developed as part of the EC KeyToNature project aiming to provide easy access to flora and fauna information. In addition to this e-guide, others covering plants, birds, butterflies, fish and mammals are available or in preparation.

This e-flora holds information on 3525 (sub)species and includes over 8500 unique colour slides. It is the mobile version of the DVD-ROM ‘Interactive Flora of the British Isles - A digital encyclopedia’ by Clive Stace, Ruud van der Meijden (Ed.), Ingrid de Kort (Ed.) published by ETI, Netherlands, ISBN: 90-75000-69-3, republished for use on this medium.

Colophon

Author:
 C.A. Stace

Editors: 
I. de Kort, R.M. van der Meijden, R.P. Heijman, T. Boersma, U. May, and M. van Couwelaar

Mobile version:
 H. Veldhuijzen van Zanten, E. van Spronsen, T. Boersma, R. Altenburg, P. Klinkenberg, W. Addink and P. Schalk

Software development and design:
 Studio Sophisti and ETI BioInformatics

Copyright of the colour photographs and drawings remain with the photographers and artists or with the Botanical Society of the British Isles. Cambridge University Press (CUP) allowed use of the text of the ‘New Flora’. Editors (C.D. Preston, D.A. Pearman and T.D. Dines) and participating organizations (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA); Centre for Ecology & Hydrobiology (CEH); Botanical Society of the British Isles (BSBI); Department of Arts, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands (Dúchas); Environment and Heritage Service (EHS); Oxford University Press (OUP); and Her Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO) — kindly gave permission to use data from the ‘New Atlas of the British and Irish Flora’ (Preston et al., 2002).