Devising the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy . . 1 Descriptive Data in the EDIT Platform for Cybertaxonomy . . 7 An online authoring and publishing platform for field guides and identification tools . . 13 A search tool for the digital biodiversity resources of KeyToNature . . 19 Developing Web-based Search Portals on Birds for Different Target Groups . . 25 Simple Identification Tools in FishBase . . 31 The Catalogue of Life: towards an integrative taxonomic backbone for biodiversity . . 37 BHL-EUROPE: Biodiversity Heritage Library for Europe . . 43 A Pan-European Species-directories Infrastructure (PESI) . . 49 ViBRANT-Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network or Taxonomy . . 53 Identifications in BioPortals™ . . 55 Types of identification keys . . 59 Learning, Identifying, Sharing . . 65 Identification with iterative nearest neighbors using domain knowledge . . 71 A MediaWiki implementation of single-access keys . . 77 Simple matrix keys from Excel spreadsheets . . 83 Wiki keys on mobile devices . . 89 A Wiki-based Key to Garden and Village Birds . . 95 Wiki-keys for the ferns of the Flora of Equatorial Guinea . . 99 MyKey: a server-side software to create customized decision trees . . 107 Xper2: managing descriptive data from their collection to e-monographs . . 113 FRIDA3.0 Multi-authored digital identification keys in the Web . . 115 Flora Bellissima, an expert software to discover botany and identify plants . . 121 Modifiable digital identification keys . . 127 The Open Key Player: A new approach for online interaction and user-tracking in identification keys . . 133 Improvement of identification keys by user-tracking . . 137 ARIES: an expert system>upporting legislative tasks. Identifying animal materials using the Linnaeus II software . . 145 An integrated system for producing user-specific keys on demand: an application to Italian lichens . . 151 "Flora Italiana Digitale": an interactive identification tool for the Flora of Italy . . 157 eFlora and DialGraph, tools for enhancing identification processes in plants . . 163 A catalogue of bird bones: an exercise in semantic web practice . . 171 Anthos.es: 10 years showing Spanish plant diversity information in the Internet . . 177 An interactive tool for the identification of airborne and food fungi . . 183 The Estonian eFlore . . 189 Keys to plants and lichens on smartphones: Estonian examples . . 195 IIKC: An Interactive Identification Key for female Culicodes (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from the West Palearctic region . . 201 Indochinese bamboos: biodiversity informatics to assist the identification of "vernacular taxa" . . 207 Identification tools as part of Feedsafety research: the case of ragwort . . 213 Two identification tools applied on Mascarene's corals genera (Xper2) and species (IKBS) . . 217 Interactive, illustrated, plant identification keys: an example for the Portuguese flora . . 219 The ORCHIS software used to identify 100 orchids species of Lao PDR . . 221 A collaborative and distributed identification tool for plants . . 223 Alternative 2D and 3D Form Characterization Approaches to the Automated Identification of Biological Species . . 225 VeSTIS: A Versatile Semi-Automatic Taxon Identification System from Digital Images . . 231 Iterative Search with Local Visual Features for Computer Assisted Plant Identification . . 237 Image data banks and geometric morphometrics . . 243 Outline analysis for identifying Limodorum species from seeds . . 249 Geometric morphometrics as a tool to resolve taxonomic problems: the case of Ophioglossum species (ferns) . . 251 Geometric morphometric analysis as a tool to explore covariation between shape and other quantitative leaf traits in European white oaks . . 257 Landmark based morphometric variation in Common dolphin (Delphinus delphis L.,1758) . . 263 DNA barcoding: theoretical aspects and practical applications . . 269 Strength and Limitations of DNA Barcode under the Multidimensional Species Perspective . . 275 DNA Barcoding and Phylogeny of Patellids from Asturias (Northern Spain) . . 275 Molecular Identification of Italian Mouse-eared Bats (genus Myotis) . . 289 Identifying algal symbionts in lichen symbioses . . 295 Identification of polymorphic species within groups of morphologically conservative taxa: combining morphological ano molecular tecnniques . . 301 Coffee species and varietal identification . . 307 Mislabelling in megrims: implications for conservation . . 315 Seeds in subtribe Ornidinae (Orchidaceae): the best morphological tool to support molecular analyses . . 323 Lentils biodiversity: the characterization of two local landraces . . 327 A model study for tardigrade identification . . 333 DNA Barcoding of Philippine plants . . 341 Molecular and ecophysiological characterisation of the Tunisian bee: Apis mellifera intermissa . . 343 DNA Bank Network - connecting biological collections and sequence databases by long-term DNA storage with online accession . . 35 Mitochondrial DNA sequences for forensic identification of the endangered whale shark, Rhincodon typus (Smith, 1828): A Case study . . 353 An assignment-based e-learning course on the use of KeyToNature e-keys . . 355 User needs for interactive identification tools to organisms employed in the EU-Project KeyToNature . . 361 Teaching biodiversity with online identification tools from KeyToNature: a comparatie study . . 367 Digital Tools in the Botanical Garden of Madrid . . 373 Use of KeyToNature Identification Tools in the Schools of Slovenia . . 379 New key-tools for pollen identification in research and education . . 383 The UK urban tree survey . . 389 Tree School -A new Innovation for Science and Education . . 395 Engaging Schools in Cutting Edge Science: From the Educator's Perspective . . 401 Educational or emotional languages? An interactive experiment with the Lucanian flora (S-ltaly) . . 405 Online sharing educational content on biodiversity topics: a case study from organic agriculture and agroecology . . 411 JSTOR Plant Science . . 417 ecoBalade: Towards a workflow for Citizen Science Nature Trails . . 419 Electronic data recording tools and identifying species in the field . . 421 Cost Assessment of the Field Measurement of Biodiversity: a Farm-scale Case Study . . 423 Markets for biodiversity information products: real or imaginary? . . 429 A Basic Business Model for Commercial Application of Identification Tools . . 437 Keys to Nature: A test on the iPhone market . . 445 AUTHOR INDEX . . 451