Life Sciences
This page:
Natural History, Ecology, and
Environmental Science |
Biology, generally |
Botany |
Zoology:
Mammals:
Primates,
Marine Mammals
Natural History, Ecology, and Environmental Science
See also
- Environmental Science in my Water Librarian pages
- Environmental Politics
- Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World - Information and images on all 867 ecoregions
- World Biomes
- WWW Sites of Interest to Ecologists
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
- International Field Guides - Bibliography of field guides by subject and place
- Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON) - Occurrence data for species in the United States
- NatureServe Explorer - Guide to the plants, animals, and ecosystems of North America
- California Geography, Geology, Hazards, and Natural History - Many maps (U.S. Geological Survey)
- To See a World, Marin County - The natural history of a mountain
North America:
California Natural History:
Biology, generally
See also
- BiologyBrowser - A rich portal from Biosis
- Biogate - "Our 1000 best links in the biological sciences" (Lund University, Sweden)
- BioMed Central - 100 open access journals in biology and medicine
- CSU BioWeb - Exhaustive lists of links in all areas of biology (California State University Stanislaus)
- BioTech Life Sciences Dictionary (University of Texas)
- Life Science Dictionary (University of Texas)
- Botany Indexes, below
- BioOne - Free index to biological, ecological, and environmental science journals; pay-per-view to see articles
- arXiv - Preprints in quantitative biology (Cornell and Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- BioRxiv - Biology preprints
- Encyclopedia of Life - Entries on species and other taxa
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
- Introduction to Phylogeny (University of California, Berkeley)
- NCBI Taxonomy Browser
- Tree of Life Web Project - Phylogeny and biodiversity
- Biodiversity Heritage Library - Electronic copies of historic works on biodiversity from the libraries of major universities, museums, and gardens
- Bugs in the News - The truth about those scary microbes
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources)
- Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Archive of audio and video files of birds, amphibians, fish, mammals, and more
- MendelWeb - Annotated versions of the seminal works in genetics
- NatureServe - All kinds of information on conservation of plants and animals
Biology Dictionaries:
Biology Index and Preprints:
See also
Taxonomy and Biodiversity:
Historic Literature of Biology:
Special Aspects:
Botany
- Plants of the World Online - Comprehensive database, in progress (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
- Botany.com - Encyclopedia of plants and flowers, botanical dictionary, and more
- Botany Virtual Library
- Forestry Virtual Library
- Global Plants - Catalog of hebaria around the world
- IBS: Vascular Plant Families and Genera
- Internet Directory for Botany
- Plants Database - Information on all kinds of plants (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
- University of Florida Herbarium
- World Flora Online - Airms to be "a full inventory of plant life" (Missouri Botanical Garden)
- Biology Index and Preprints, above
- Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases (Agricultural Reseach Services, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
- Index to American Botanical Literature (New York Botanical Garden)
- Kew Bibliographic Databases - Taxonomic literature, economic botany, plant micromorphology (Royal Botanic Garden, Kew)
- Plant Information Online - Search for book and magazine citations; plant and seed sources; and images of plants (University of Minnesota)
- APIRS: The database of aquatic, invasive, and wetland plants (University of Florida)
- BC BigTree Website - The biggest trees in British Columbia (University of British Columbia)
- Global Tree Search - 60,000 tree species and their geographical distributions
- Trees - Guides to the selection and care of trees (Arbor Day Foundation)
Botany Indexes:
See also
Trees:
Zoology
- Animal Diversity Web (University of Michigan)
- BBC Nature: Wildlife - BBC news and links to other sources on animals
- National Zoological Park home page
- In Search of Giant Squid (Smithsonian)
- InfoNatura - Animals of Latin America
- Butterflies and Moths of North America
- Monarch Watch - Track the annual migration of monarch butterflies in North America by reading the reports of observers
- Reptile Database
- Dino Directory (Natural History Museum, London)
- Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- eBird - Birders can log their sightings
- Guide to North American Birds (Audubon Society)
- Internet Bird Collection (IBC) - Descriptions, ranges, videos, photos, sounds
- Ornithological World Literature (OWL) - Index to the scientific literature on birds [Birdlit.org]
- Searchable Ornithology Research Archive (SORA) (University of New Mexico Libraries)
- Global Raptor Information Network (GRIN) - Species database and a bibliography with over 50,000 records
- Raptor Information System (U.S. Geological Survey)
- Hall of Mammals (University of California, Berkeley)
- Mammal Species of the World (National Museum of Natural History)
- North American Mammals (Smithsonian Institution)
- The eSkeletons Project - Comparative skeletons of primates, including humans
- Living Links - Center for the advanced study of ape and human evolution
- Primate Info Net (Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center)
- Becoming Human
- Human Evolution: The Fossil Evidence in 3D - This is a really cool Shockwave application that lets you view primate crania from all sides. It's part of a larger project on CD-ROM. (UC Santa Barbara)
- What Does It Mean to be Human? - Descriptions and charts of our hominid forebears; excellent pictures of their skulls (Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History)
- PrimateLit - Database indexing literature on primates from 1940 to the present
- Whaleopedia - Description, pictures, audio, and video of cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises)
- Watkins Marine Mammal Sound Database
- WhaleNet
- Habitat Based Cetacean Density Models for the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico
- Monterey Bay Whale Watch - Some good information on sightings, as well as advertising for their whale watching trips. [gowhales.com]
- American Kennel Club - All kinds of information on dogs
Insects:
Reptiles:
Dinosaurs:
Birds:
Ornithology Indexes:
Mammals:
Primates:
See also