Fall 2007 AQUAPHYTE Page 7

 APIRS was conceived of and developed by the late Mr. Victor Ramey. Ms. Karen Brown manages the database. Mrs. Mary Langeland
catalogues all materials placed in the database. Ms. Lynda Dillon and Ms. Amy Tang add newly cataloged entries to the database.



 APIRS Keywords

 Any word may be used as a keyword, but this list represents keywords that are regularly and consistently used in the APIRS database.


acid (precipitation, rain, deposition)
allelopathy
annotated checklist (survey)
Search query: +annotated +checklist
aquarium
aquascape
artificial plants (plastic)
artificial (wetland)
autecology (relationship between one
species and its environment)
benthic barriers (bottom screens)
benefits
bioaccumulation
bioconcentration
biodiversity
biomanipulation
biomass
birds
book
cd-rom
chemical composition
choice tests (insect biocontrol)
commercial brochure
commercial uses (with utilization)
communities
conservation
created (wetland)
crop
crowding (density)
competition
computer software
constructed
(wetland for pollution control)
cost
diet
density
depth accommodation
(elongation response)
directory
dormancy
drainage
edible plants
editorial
education
efficiencies
effects
efficacy
epiphyte


* ethics
* ethnobotany
* exotic
* exotic pest plant
 (FLEPPC* listed species)
 (*Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council)
* extension
* field guide
* flood control
* flooding
* flora
* flow velocity
* food preference
* food web
* gas flow
* genetics
* grazing
* guides
* guidelines
* habitat
* herbivory
* hobby
* horticulture
* host range (usually for biocontrol)
* host specificity or host range
 (for insect biocontrol)
* human activities
* human impacts
* hydroelectric
* hydrology
* identification
* illustrations
* invasion
* irrigation
* issues
* legislation
* literature review
* manuals
* mating system
* medicine (use with utilizaton)
* metals (heavy, uptake)
* methane
* method (if new, comparing
 or challenging)
* micropropagation (tissue culture)
* minerals (uptake)
* mitigation (created wetland)
* monitoring


natural areas management
new record
newspaper article/newsletter
non-target
nursery
occurrence (plant distribution)
paleobotany
(alt. spelling: palaeobotany)
philosophy
phytochemistry (pharmacology,
chemotaxonomy, allelopathy)
phytogeography
phytoplankton
phytosociology (survey)
plankton
population studies
preservation
propagation
public information (extension)
regulation
range
reclamation
radiolabel
redox
resource allocation (for nutrient
storage in plant tissue)
resource recovery
restoration
rodent
salinity
salt
seagrasses
sedimentation
seed bank
soil amendment
spatial distribution
species composition
species richness
stormwater
(for retention/detention ponds)
tissue culture
utility (electric)
value
video
wastewater
waterfowl
zooplankton