If you wish to be a commercial user of the information in these databases, please contact us. We are pleased to allow and encourage their unrestricted use for educational, academic and scientific purposes. The most notable among these are many members of the international taxasphere. While all of these institutions and persons feel comfortable about their work in this database being freely available world-wide for educational, academic and scientific purposes, they feel as do we that it is reasonable for these databases and the ACG to share in any commercial gains from this information. Without biodiversity development of the ACG conserved wildlands, and other conserved wildlands throughout the world, there is a significant chance that we will finish the 21rst century with databases like these being the only record of what once was.
Suggestions are very welcome.
The 1999 records are currently receiving their final polish and will be added in the first half of 2000. This is not because plant taxonomists have been unhelpful or because these are new species of plants, but rather that the caterpillars were eating juvenile plants that often take years to identify. Rather, it usually means that the voucher specimen is a member of a large package of taxonomically or ecologically related species that are being worked over as a group. However, we assume that later versions of FMP will allow this availability. The names for fields in these databases are to some degree historical holdovers and are gradually evolving to become more self-evident and more accurate vis a vis the content of the fields, and to make it more seamless to pass this data to other databases and be able to entertain searches through the web.