BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide

This site offers an enormous collection of photographs of wild species and natural history objects. It covers most groups of organisms with the exception of birds and other vertebrates. The photographs are presented to illustrate biodiversity and as an aid to identification. The criterion for inclusion of a species is that it must have been, or might be expected to be, found in Britain or Ireland. BioImages follows the biological classification. Biota is a hierarchical system with species grouped in genera, genera in families, families in orders and so on up to kingdoms and superkingdoms. The datasets are linked to bioinfo: food webs and species interactions in the Biodiversity of UK and Ireland.

本网站汇聚了野生物种及自然历史对象的庞大图像库。涵盖了除鸟类及其他脊椎动物外的多数生物群体。图像旨在展示生物多样性，并辅助识别。收录物种的标准为该物种必须曾出现在英国或爱尔兰，或预期可能出现在上述地区。BioImages遵循生物分类系统。生物群落构成一个层级体系，物种被归类于属，属隶属于科，科归属目，直至王国和超王国等。数据集与bioinfo相连接，展示了英国和爱尔兰生物多样性中的食物网及物种相互作用。