LIFE & ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES LINKS

Sites are presented in alphbetical order and reflect no preference.

• Academy of Natural Sciences-Digital Collections: The Ewell Sale Stewart Library of the Academy of Natural Sciences houses many rare, beautiful, and important works on the natural sciences, and by publishing the pages from these books digitally and providing access on the web, the Library hopes to share, with scientists, scholars, and the public, these early works.
• AgEcon search: A full text Library of agricultural and applied economics scholarly literature.
• AGRICOLA: National Agricultural Library's Web Gateway to AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access).
• Agriculture Fact Book: Agriculture Fact Book, 2001-2002.
• AGRIS: AGRIS, the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology,was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture.
• Alfred Russel Wallace: Site dedicated to celebrating the life and work of the English naturalist, evolutionist, and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace.
• Algaebase: Over 60,000 species and infraspecific names are now included in the database (including over 23,000 species), together with 6,000 generic names, 3,000 images, 36,000 bibliographic items, and 107,000 distributional records; a 28,000-word Glossary has been added courtesy of Dr A.C. Mathieson.
• All About Birds: Resources from the Cornell Laboratory of Orinthology.
• All the Virology on the WWW: All the Virology on the WWW seeks to be the best single site for Virology information on the Internet.
• American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications: AMNH scientific publications disseminate the results of laboratory investigations and fieldwork conducted by museum scientists and their colleagues in the areas of zoological systematics, paleontology, geology, evolution, and anthropology.
• American Society of Agronomy: The American Society of Agronomy (ASA) is a prominent international educational society headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
• APHIS: USDA Animal and Plant Inspection Service.
• ARKive: Digital images of life on earth, plant and animal.
• ASM: American Society for Microbiology.
• AmphibiaWeb: An online system that allows free access to information on amphibian biology and conservation.
• Animalinfo: Information on Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals.
• AquaNIC: AquaNIC is the gateway to the world’s electronic resources for aquaculture information.
• ARS: Agricultural Research Service.
• The Astrobiology Web: A directory of astrobiology sites on the web.
• ATSDR: Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry produces "toxicological profiles" for hazardous substances found at National Priorities List.
• ATTRA: ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is created and managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture's Rural Business-Cooperative Service.
• Avibase: Avibase is an extensive database information system about all birds of the world, containing over 2 million records about 10,000 species and 22,000 subspecies of birds, including distribution information, taxonomy, synonyms in several languages and more.
• Beetle Science: At Cornell University, scientists in the Department of Entomology study beetles in the context of biodiversity, systematic biology, invasive species, and other topics.
• BEN (BioSciEdNet): The BEN portal, the National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Pathway for biological sciences education.
• Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology on the Web: Iowa State University Library's guide to current sources for the biological sciences on the Internet. biodiversity, and to demonstrate that human societies are able to live harmoniously with nature.
• Biodiversity Hotspots: Site produced by Conservation International whose mission is to conserve the Earth's living heritage, our global
• BioEd Online: Developed by Baylor College of Medicine, BioEd Online provides up-to-date teacher resources for biology educators.
• Bioethics.net: Bioethics resources and online publications.
• Biology Browser: BiologyBrowser, produced by BIOSIS, is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community.
• Biology Links: Deptartment of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University's Biology Links.
• Biology-Online.org: Biology Online - Information in the Life Sciences.
• Bionet: Bionet - the site that lets you explore and debate the latest discoveries in life sciences.
• Bio Netbook: Pasteur Institute's index to 4,500 databases searchable by organism, database type, or domain in science.
• Biophys: College Physics for Students of Biology and Chemistry.
• Botanicus: Web-based encyclopedia of historic botanical literature from the Missouri Botanical Garden Library.
• Butterflies of America: The Butterflies of North America Web site with distribution maps, photos, species accounts, and species checklists.
• Bioterrism: The Institute for Biosecurity at Saint Louis University School of Public Health was established in 2000 with funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Botany / Plant Biology: The Virtual Library of Botany / Plant Biology.
• Canyons, Cultures and Environmental Change: An Introduction to the land use history of the Colorado Plateau.
• CHLA: The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture.
• CIESIN: The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) was established in 1989 as an independent non-governmental organization to provide information that would help scientists, decision-makers, and the public better understand the changing relationship between human beings and the environment.
• Classical Genetics: Foundations of Classical Genetics from ESP, Electronic Scholarly Publishing.
• Climate Change (U.S. EPA): The EPA Climate Change site provides comprehensive information on the issue of climate change and global warming.
• CLIWOC: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850.
• CNAH: The Center for North American Herpetology.
• Conshome: History of the American conservation movement, 1850 to 1920, from the Library of Congress American Memory Project.
• CoRIS: NOAA's coral reef information system.
• Dartmouth Flood Observatory: The Observatory detects, maps, and measures major flood events world-wide using satellite remote sensing.
• Darwin digital Library of Evolution: The Darwin Digital Library of Evolution is based at the American Museum of Natural History Library.
• Dino Russ's Lair: Dinosaur and vertebrate paleontology information.
• The Discovery of Global Warming: Discovery of Global Warming site created by Spencer Weart.
• DOEgenomes.org: Genome programs of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, founder of the Human Genome Project and leader in systems biology research.
• EAE: Encyclopedia of the Atmospheric Environment.
• Earthref: Geophysical and geochemical data, models, tools, and reference materials.
• Earth Science World: American Geological Institute resources for teachers and students.
• Earthtrends: An environmental information portal.
• EcoEarth.info: Environment Portal & Search Engine.
• Ecology and Biodiversity: Ecology and Biodiversity from virtual library.
• ECOTOX: The ECOTOX (ECOTOXicology) database provides single chemical toxicity information for aquatic and terrestrial life.
• EEA: Earthquake Engineering Abstracts, access to world literature in earthquake engineering since 1971.
• eFloras.org: A virtual library of online floras.
• electronic Environmental Resources Library: eERL's mission is to be the best possible online collection of environmental and energy sustainability resources for community college educators.
• eNature: Field Guides to over 5,500 species.
• Encyclopedia of Earth: A free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.
• Endangered Species Program: Information about threatened and endangered species from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Entomology Index of Internet Sources: The directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet from Iowa State uiversity.
• EnviroLink: The EnviroLink Network is a non-profit organization which has been providing access to thousands of online environmental resources since 1991.
• ERS: Economic research service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
• Entomology: NMNH Entomology database library from the Smithsonian.
• Entomology Index: A directory and search engine of insect-related resources on the Internet
• Envsite: Environmental Sites on the Internet.
• EPA: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• ESD: Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development.
• Environmental Sciences: A UCSB Library Reference Guide.
• The Exploratorium: Global climate change research explorer.
• Extreme Weather Sourcebook: The Extreme Weather Sourcebook is a collection of data on severe weather events acquired from Roger Pielke, Jr. and his colleagues at the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES).
• FAO: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
• Feeding America: Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project.
• Fire Ecology Database: Tall Timbers E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database & the Southern Fire Portal (SFP).
• FishBase: FishBase is a relational database with information to cater to different professionals such as research scientists, fisheries managers, zoologists and many more.
• FHS: The Forest History Society's (FHS) core mission is to promote the study of the history of human interaction with the environment. Our rich research resources support this endeavor by identifying and improving access to documentation of forest, conservation, and environmental history.
• Flora: Taxonomy of flowering plants.
• Food Science Central: Food Science Central is a gateway to free and subscription based information relating to the world of food science, food technology and food-related human nutrition.
• Forestry: The UN's FAO Forestry Department.
• Forestry AgNIC: Forestry AgNIC is a guide to quality forestry and natural resources information on the Internet with over 1500 links.
• FWS: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
• Gap Analysis Program: The goal of the GAP Analysis Program is to keep common species common by identifying those species and plant communities that are not adequately represented in existing conservation lands.
• GEC: Genetics Education Center for educators interested in human genetics and the human genome project.
• Geo-Guide: The Geo-Guide is a subject gateway to scholarly relevant websites in earth sciences, geography and mining.
• GEONETCast: A near real time, global network of satellite-based data dissemination systems designed to distribute space-based, air-borne and in situ data, metadata and products to diverse communities.
• Geoscience Information Society: The Geoscience Information Society facilitates the exchange of information in the geosciences through cooperation among scientists, librarians, editors, cartographers, educators, and information professionals.
• Geosource: Web resources for human geography,physical geography, planning,geoscience and environmental science.
• Global Change Master Directory: Earth and Science data and services.
• Global Hydrology & Climate Center: A joint venture between government (NASA) and academia to study the global water cycle and its effect on weather and climate.
• Global Invasive Species Programme: GISP, or the Global Invasive Species Programme, was established in 1997 to address global threats caused by Invasive Alien Species.
• Global Volcanism Program: The Global Volcanism Program (GVP) seeks better understanding of all volcanoes through documenting their eruptions.
• Grey Matters: Grey Matters is an educational series that seeks to enhance public awareness of recent developments in brain research.
• Hinterland Who's Who: A joint undertaking of the Canadian Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Federation.
• The Hive and the Honeybee: The Phillips' Beekeeping Collection at Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library is one of the largest and most complete apiculture libraries in the world.
• Home and Garden Bulletin Archive: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Home and Garden Bulletin Archive.
• Hort.net: Plant databases from the Internet.
• Hypomyces Index: Site for Hypomyces from the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
• Human Body and Mind: From the BBC's science and nature pages.
• Human Genome Program: Human Genome Program Information Website.
• Humankinetics: Homepage of Humankinetics Publishing Company.
• Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation: Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation.
• Intute - Health and Life Science: hand-selected and evaluated Internet resources for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners in the Health and Life Sciences.
• IPCC: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
• IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: IUCN - The World Conservation Union, through its Species Survival Commission (SSC) has for more than four decades been assessing the conservation status of species, subspecies, varieties and even selected subpopulations on a global scale in order to highlight taxa threatened with extinction, and therefore promote their conservation.
• IDB: The Internet Directory of Botany is an index to botanical information available on the Internet.
• IGES: The Institute of Global Environment and Society, Inc. (IGES) was established to improve understanding and prediction of the variations of the Earth's climate through scientific research on climate variability and climate predictability.
• Innerbody: Explore Human Anatomy online.
• IPANE: The Invasive Plant Atlas of New England’s (IPANE) mission is to create a comprehensive web-accessible database of invasive and potentially invasive plants in New England that will be continually updated by a network of professionals and trained volunteers.
• ISIHighlycited: An expert gateway to the most highly influential scientists and scholars worldwide.
• ITIS: The Integrated Taxonomic Information System with authoritative taxonomic information on plants, animals, fungi, and microbes of North America and the world.
• Kimball's Biology Pages: Site geared toward introductory biology students with a focus cell and molecular biology.
• Learn.Genetics: An educational resource that explains how genetics relates to our lives and society.
• Longevity Records: Life Spans of Mammals, Birds, Amphibians, Reptiles, and Fish.
• Marine Biology Web: MBWEB is an educational resource for marine biology students with reference lists organized by subject.
• Marine Realms Information Bank: Access to free online scientific information about oceans, coasts, and coastal watersheds.
• Mendelweb: An educational resource for teachers and students interested in the origins of classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, and the history and literature of science.
• Microbes.info: Microbes.info is an internet web site designed to bring useful and interesting microbiology informational resources to you.
• Mineralogy Database: This mineral database contains 4,442 individual mineral species descriptions with links and a comprehensive image library.
• MOBot: The Missouri Botanical Garden is one of the world's top botanical research and conservation institutions.
• Molecular Biology Online: An Informational Resource for Cell and Molecular Biologists.
• Molecular Expressions Optical Microscopy Primer - Museum of Microscopy: The Molecular Expressions Museum of Microscopy features historical microscopes ranging from sixteenth century Dutch designs through the magnificent microscopes of eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe to the latest microprocessor-powered models available today.
• Mollusks: Field Museum Invertebrates collection database.
• NALDR: The National Agricultural Library Digital Repository (NALDR) provides access to publications either digitized by NAL or through NAL’s partnerships with other institutions.
• NASS: National Agricultural Statistics Service.
• National Coal Resources Data System: Analytical data, sample locations, and descriptive information, analytical methods and sampling techniques, database perspective, and bibliographic references for selected U.S. coal samples.
• National Space Biomedical Research Institute: NSBRI research seeks solutions to health concerns facing astronauts on long missions.
• Nature Online: Virtual site of the Natural History Museum in London.
• Natureserve: A non-profit conservation organization that provides the scientific information and tools needed to help guide effective conservation action.
• NBII: The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources.
• NCBI: Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.
• NCDC: NCDC is the world's largest active archive of weather data.
• NetVet/Electronic Zoo: Animal Resources.
• Neuroethics: "Neuroethics" is the ethics of neuroscience, analogous to the term 'bioethics' which denotes the ethics of biomedical science more generally.
• Neuroguide: A searchable and browsable index of neuroscience resources available on the Internet.
• NewCROP: The Web site of the Center for New Crops & Plant Products, at Purdue University.
• New York Metropolitan Flora Project: While most of the botanical community concentrates on tracking the threats to biodiversity in the tropics, scientists at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden are undertaking the most comprehensive study ever of the plant biodiversity in metropolitan New York.
• NGDC: NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) provides scientific stewardship, products, and services for geophysical data from the Sun to the Earth and Earth's sea floor and solid earth environment, including Earth observations from space.
• NLE: The National Library for the Environment is a gateway to a vast array of science-based information and is used by millions of visitors from around the world.
• NOAA Arctic Theme Page: NOAA provides Arctic infomation and a set of reputable indicators that describe the present state of the Arctic ecosystem and climate.
• NOAA Paleoclimatology: The Paleoclimatology Branch of the National Climatic Data Center provides the paleoclimatic data and information needed to understand the climate of the past, in order to assess the current and potential future climate in the context of natural climate variability.
• NRCS: Since 1935, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (originally called the Soil Conservation Service) has provided leadership in a partnership effort to help America's private land owners and managers conserve their soil, water, and other natural resources.
• NSIDC: The National Snow and Ice Data Center.
• Nutrient Data: The USDA Nutrient Data Laboratory.
• NWISWeb: USGS Water Data for the Nation.
• NWHC: National Wildlife Health Center.
• NWs: Internet Weather Service.
• OBIS: An on-line, open-access, globally-distributed network of systematic, ecological, and environmental information systems.
• Oceanography Hotlist: Oceanography Hotlist--a directory of oceanography sites on the web.
• Ocean World: This site is developed and maintained by the Jason Education Project at Texas A&M University.
• OdonataCentral: The official website of the Dragonfly Society of the Americas.
• OMIM: Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man.
• Order From Chaos: Order from Chaos: Linnaeus Disposes an introduction to Carolus Linnaeus the Swedish botanist , physician, and zoologist whose work laid the foundations of modern biological systematics and nomenclature.
• OWL: Ornithological Worldwide Literature (OWL) is a compilation of citations and abstracts from the worldwide scientific literature that pertain to the science of ornithology.
• Pedro: Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools: A Collection of WWW Links to Information and Services Useful to Molecular Biologists.
• Paleontology: The American Museum of Natural History's Division of Paleontology.
• PETERSON FIELD GUIDES: Peterson Online provides information for nature lovers, in gereral, and for birders, in particular.
• Pewclimate: The Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
• PFAF: Plants For A Future Database.
• PIN: Primate Info Net maintained by the Wisconsin Primate Research Center (WPRC) Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Planet Ark: Planet Ark works to show people the many ways they can reduce their day to day impact on the environment - at home, at work and in the community.
• Plant Explorers: PlantExplorers.com is a resource for anyone who likes plants, and anyone who wants to learn more about them.
• PlantFacts: PlantFacts has merged several digital collections developed at Ohio State University to become an international knowledge bank and multimedia learning center.
• Plants: The PLANTS Database of the U. S. Department of Argiculture.
• PPIGB: The Plant Pathology Internet Guide Book is a subject oriented internet resource guide for plant pathology, applied entomology, and all related fields.
• Primatelit: The PrimateLit database provides bibliographic access to the scientific literature on nonhuman primates for the research and educational communities.
• Radwaste: Radioactive waste management.
• RZU2U: Animal Terms for Baby, Male, Female and Groups plus other interesting Animal Related Terms.
• Scientistsolutions.com: An internet discussion site or "Board" to provide scientists a resource for the exchange of ideas and information.
• Seaweb: SeaWeb is a communications-based nonprofit organization that uses social marketing techniques to advance ocean conservation.
• SERPIN: Southeastern Rare Plant Information Network: Database of rare plant information for species in the southeastern United States, including records.
• Society of American Foresters: The Society of American Foresters (SAF) is the national scientific and educational organization representing the forestry profession in the United States.
• SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive.
• SNOW Research: The SNOW Interest Group is sponsored by Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory.
• Stem Cells: Stem Cells in the spotlight is produced by The Genetic Science Learning Center, an outreach education program located at the University of Utah.
• Stratospheric Ozone: NOAA's Aeronomy Laboratory, Earth System Research Laboratory, Climate Prediction Center and the National Climatic Data Center are actively involved in monitoring and research, which enhances the scientific understanding of ozone and the processes affecting its concentration in the stratosphere.
• Species 2000: The goal of the Species 2000 project is to create a validated checklist of all the world's species (plants, animals, fungi and microbes).
• SSSA: Soil Society of America.
• Storm Prediction Center: Severe weather information from the Storm Prediction Center.
• Systematics: University of Wisconsin - Madison Plant Systematics Collection.
• The TalkOrigins Archive: Talk.origins is a Usenet newsgroup devoted to the discussion and debate of biological and physical origins.
• Temperature World: Temperature news, Temperature information and Temperature related resources.
• TNCWEEDS: Wildland Invasive Species Team: Invasives on the Web.
• TransgenicCrops: Transgenic crops: an introduction and research guide from Colorado State University.
• The Tree of Life: Information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
• USGS Landslide Hazards: The National Landslide Information Center (NLIC) is responsible for distributing information about landslides to the public, researchers, planners, and local, state, and federal agencies.
• USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center: A multi-disciplinary research center within the USGS Biological Resources Division.
• Virtual Library of Botany: Directory of Botany / Plant Biology (Biosciences) resources maintained by Scott Russell at the University of Oklahoma.
• Virtual library of ecology and biodiversity: The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity division of The Virtual Library Project specializes in reviewing internet information sources pertaining to ecology and biodiversity based on their educational value.
• Vivanatura: Illustrated Database of Mexican Biodiversity.
• Water Environment Federation: Founded in 1928, the Water Environment Federation is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization with members from varied disciplines who work toward the WEF vision of preservation and enhancement of the global water environment.
• Water Resources of the United States: The Water Resources Discipline is one of four science disciplines of the U.S. Geological Survey.
• Weather Term Glossary: Comprehensive glossary of weather terms for strom spotters by Michael Brannick of the National Weather Service Forecast Office.
• Weather.gov: Interactive Weather Information Network from the national Weather Service.
• Weatherimages: Live Weather Images created by Mark Brooks, a student at North Carolina State University.
• Weeds Gone Wild: Alien Plant Invaders of Natural Areas: A web-based project of the Plant Conservation Alliance's Alien Plant Working Group, that provides information for the general public, land managers, researchers, and others on the serious threat and impacts of invasive alien (exotic, non-native) plants to the native flora, fauna, and natural ecosystems of the United States.
• Wildfinder: WildFinder is a map-driven, searchable database of more than 26,000 species worldwide, with a powerful search tool that allows users to discover where species live or explore wild places to find out what species live there.
• Windpower: Wind Energy Resources and guided tour.
• Worldclimate: 85,000 records of world climate data (historical weather averages).
• World List of Cycads : A comprehensive, accurate and up-to-date listing of all accepted cycad names and their synonyms by K.D. Hill and D.W. Stevenson.

Links last verified and updated 11/13/2008.

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