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Ecology

Electronic Indexes

ASFA 1: Biological Sciences and Living Resources   1971+
Citations with abstracts to journal articles, books, reports, conference
proceedings, and translations dealing with the aquatic sciences.

BIOSIS  (Biological Abstracts)   1989+
This database consists of citations with abstracts to articles in over
7,000 life science journals worldwide. Available to 4 simultaneous users.

Birds of North America
Comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds including image and video galleries and bird call recordings.

Environment Complete 1973+
Searchable index of citations to the environmental journal literature.
Coverage includes scientific, technical, legal, social, and popular journals.

General Science Full Text   (WilsonWeb)   1984+
Citations, with abstracts, to journal articles selected from close to 200
English-language core and popular journals covering all science disciplines.
Includes access to the full text of articles for 25% of the journals and links
to holdings in the BU Library Catalog.

Web of Science 1978+
Offering an electronic version of Science Citation Index, this database
covers articles in all areas of the sciences. Its most unique feature is the
ability to search for cited references in journal articles. Available to 20 simultaneous users.

Water Resources Worldwide  1970+
This database includes over 870,000 records covering worldwide aspects of marine, fresh and brackish water research, including water quality and supply, sewage and water treatment, aquatic biology, ecology and environmental management as well as pollution, limnology, climatology, oceanography, arid regions, hydrology, groundwater, river research, aquaculture, microbiology, biotechnology and much more.

Wildlife and Ecology Studies WorldWide 1935+
This database offers a large index to literature on wild mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. Topics covered include behavior, endangered/threatened species, habitat, disturbances, genetics, life history, physiology, morphology, pollution, and management.

Ecology Links

• Agroecology
  This website is an information resource for developing sustainable agroecosystems, emphasizing international training, research, and application of agroecological science to solving real world problems.
• Biodiversity (Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage)
  This web site provides very extensive coverage of broad topics related to biodiversity including biodiversity hotspots, international issues, invasive species, migratory species, ecological communities, and wildlife trade.
• Biodiversity-Species Diversity (National Biological Information Infrastructure)
  This site provies a large number of links to many topics realted to questions of biodiversity in the U.S., Canada, and other part of the world.
• Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function On-line
  This web site aims to be a resource for researchers specifically concerned with how the richness of species (or functional groups) affects ecosystem function.
• Ecological Sciences Division of the Natural Resources Conservation Service
  The web site provides information on agricultural, aquatic, forest and rangeland ecology; wildlife habitat; plants and soils; ecosystems and other ecologically-related topics.
• Ecological Society of America's EcoEdNet
  This web site is a portal for locating, contributing, and disseminating ecology education resources. Topics include ecology as science, energy transfer, biodiversity, and regulation.
• Ecology WWW Page
  This web site provides links to a large number of ecology-related information and research resources.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  This site makes primary data on biodiversity freely and universally available via the internet.
• NASA Earth Observatory
  This web site provides a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change.
• Tree of life
  Internet project containing information about phylogeny and biodiversity.
• Species 2000
  This site contains a series of databases providing a uniform and validated quality index of names of all known species.
• The Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
  This web site specializes in providing information pertaining to ecology and biodiversity that is especially valuable to education. It includes a searchable database of ecology-related information.
• WorldBiomes.com
  This site contains a great deal of information about 5 of the major world biomes: aquatic, desert, tundra, forest, and grasslands.
• Yahoo! - Ecology
  This web site contains a listing of links to a large variety of ecology-related information including discipline specific links.
  

Ecology Societies and Associations

• All Species Foundation
• British Ecological Society
• Ecological Society of America (ESA)
• Ecological Society of Australia
• The George Wright Society
• International Association for Landscape Ecology - U.S. Regional Association
• International Society for Ecosystem Health (ISEH)
• International Society of Chemical Ecology
• Italian Society of Ecology
• New Zealand Ecological Society
• Organization of Biological Field Stations
• Physiological Ecology Section, ESA
• The Soil Ecology Society

Ecology Centers and Labs

• Biological Resources Division - United States Geological Service
• Boston University Biology Department Program in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution
• Boston University Center for Ecology and Conservation Biology
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Center For Ecological Health Research
• Centre for Ecology and Hydrology
• Centre for Population Biology
• Complex Systems Research Center
• Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences
• The Ecosystems Center
• FRESC - Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center
• The Horn Point Laboratory
• Institute for Tropical Ecology and Conservation
• Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research
• International Arctic Research Center
• Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network 
• National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis
• Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
• Niwot Ridge Long-Term Ecological Research Program
• NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
• Oak Ridge National Laboratory Environmental Sciences Division (ESD)
• Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Ecology Group
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

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