AlgaeVision
UK Algal image database
High Force: A tributary of the River Tees in the Pennines, Northumberland.
This website is a collection of images of freshwater and terrestrial algae (apart from diatoms) of the United Kingdom - Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and Northern Ireland. Also included are taxa from slightly brackish-water environments and marine blue-green algae. The only colourless forms considered are all dinoflagellates (pyrrophytes).
The database originates from a collaborative project between The British Phycological Society and the Natural History Museum, London. The main outcome was The Freshwater Algal Flora of the British Isles (2002), edited by DM John, BA Whitton and AJ Brook and published by Cambridge University Press. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM of algal images and habitats compiled and edited by PV York, DM John and LR Johnson.
The AlgaeVision website is cited as follows: York, P.V. & John, D.M. 2005. AlgaeVision: Virtual Collection of UK Freshwater Algae and Habitats. Version 1. World Wide Web Electronic Publication (http://www.nhm.ac.uk/botany/algaevision)
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Search database
Search by Taxon or Phylum to find information, images and references about individual algae.
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About algae
Algae is a general term of convenience for phylogenetically unrelated organisms that undertake photosynthesis and/or possess plastids. Find out more in About Algae.
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About the database
Find out about the Algae database, compiled and edited by Peter V York and David M John of the Department of Botany, The Natural History Museum.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements from the AlgaeVision project.