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Ecology and Population Biology

General Ecology

Title: The Ecological Society of America (ESA)

URL:www.esa.org

The ESA website promotes the Science of Ecology and includes career information, meetings and various publications. Also included are various links to journals, archives and listservs.

Title: Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity

URL:http://conbio.net/vl/

This virtual library is a portion of the Center for Conservation Biology Network that reviews Internet Information regarding Ecology. The Internet resources are then broken down into categories that include lists of links.

Title: National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS)

URL:www.nceas.ucsb.edu/fmt/doc?/frames.html

The NCEAS website includes information about different research projects in the field of ecology and their results. There is also a portion that discusses the role of informatics in the field of ecology.

Title: National Gap Analysis Program (USGS)

URL:www.gap.uidaho.edu/

The Gap Analysis Program is part of the USGS, and determines the extent to which native animal and plant species are protected. The website includes information on ongoing projects, data and reports, meetings and project resources.

Title: Environmental Yellow Pages-Ecology

URL:www.enviroyellowpages.com/Resources/Ecology/

The Ecology portion on the Environmental Yellow Pages website is helpful and contains multiple subjects including Aquatic Ecology, Ecology Research Centers, Ecosystems, Restoration Ecology and Wildlife Ecology. For each subject there is an extensive listing on links for information and resources.

Title: Ecology WWW Page

URL:www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~brach/Ecology-WWW.html

The Ecology web links site offers thousands of Ecology links sorted alphabetically about a multitude of subjects, languages and countries.

Title: World Ecology

URL:www.worldecology.com/

This website supported by WorldNews.com provides up to date news about Ecology. Some included topics are earthquakes, forestry, global warming, science and weather.

Title: US Long Term Ecological Research Network

URL:http://lternet.edu/

The LTER Network has a website where scientists and students can compare research that can be used in long-term projects. Included on the site are directories, bibliographies and affiliations.

Title: Envirolink: The Online Environmental Community

URL:www.envirolink.org/index.html

This online environmental community provides numerous Internet resources that pertain to the environment as well as news headlines and a discussion forum.

Animal Ecology

Title: American Fisheries Society

URL:www.fisheries.org

AFS website offers information about the society, education, jobs, publications and an in-depth list of links.

Title: Animal Info – Information on Endangered Mammals

URL:www.animalinfo.org

Information about endangered mammals including many pictures is included on this website. It is searchable by individual species or species group. Each animal page includes a profile, status and trends, data on biology and ecology and more references.

Title: Bill’s Wildlife Sites

URL:www.wildlifer.com/wildlifesites/

Wildlife Web Links consists of various sites for wildlife biologists including sites about specific animals and organizations.

Title: Birds of Stanford

URL:www.stanfordalumni.org/birdsite/

The birds of Stanford website is prepared by Stanford alumni and contains photos, artwork, essays and species lists about the 125 species of birds found on campus.

Title: Amazonian Fishes

URL:www.amazonian-fish.co.uk

Amazing photographs of Amazonian fish and their surroundings supplement this website. Also included are many ecological aspects of the Amazon, including waters, communities, plants and forests.

Insect Ecology and Population Biology

Title: Ant-Links

URL:http://www.museums.org.za/bio/aarg/antlinks.htm

Ant-Links will lead ant lovers to a myriad of websites relevant to ant ecology. Links are included to general ant information, pest ants, ant collections, ant researchers and fauna from all parts of the world.

Title: AntWeb

URL:http://www.antweb.org/index.jsp

AntWeb, maintained by the California Academy of Sciences, provides descriptions and high-quality color images of a large number of ant species.  Some general information on the ecology of ants is also included.  Currently the focus of AntWeb is on ant species of California and Madagascar and ant genera of the world.  The goal is to describe every known species of ant.

Freshwater and Marine Ecology and Wetlands

Title: National Wetlands Inventory

URL:www.nwi.fws.gov

The National Wetlands Inventory website strives to provide wetland information in the form of maps. It also includes other wetland information, including codes and code definitions, plants, publications and more links.

Title: Wetlands Regulation Center

URL:www.wetlands.com

The Wetlands Regulation Center offers information about laws, policies and regulations according to the Clean Water Acts regarding wetlands.

Title: Coral Reef Database

URL:www.reefbase.org

The coral reef database is a collection of online resources for researchers and professionals within the coral reef field. Topics included are management, research, monitoring, conservation and education.

Title: Coral Reef and Marine Conservation

URL:www.reefnet.org

The coral reef and marine conservation website is composed of various scientific articles, research findings, international conservation strategies and management techniques all based on coral reef ecosystems and marine conservation.

Title: Stream and Fish Data for the Northwest

URL:www.streamnet.org

Stream Net focuses on fisheries and other stream data in the Pacific Northwest, more specifically, the Columbia River Basin. There is extensive online fish data including a library, photographs and GIS data.

Microbial Ecology

Title: ISME-International Society for Microbial Ecology

URL:www.microbes.org

The ISME website promotes communication between microbial ecologists and informs the general public about microbes in the environment

Title: Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology

URL:www.commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/dlc-me/

This digital learning center uses computer and networking to provide students and teachers with tools for learning and instruction microbiology and microbial ecology.

Plant Ecology

Title: Internet Directory for Botany

URL:www.botany.net/IDB

This Internet Directory for Botany contains an extensive listing of links pertaining to botany, including multiple on the subject of plant ecology.

Population Biology

Title: News About Population from the World

URL:www.population.com

This website supported by WorldNews.com provides up to date news about world population. Some included topics are amnesty, civil rights, environment and headlines, as well as links to all other sites supported by WorldNews.com.

Title: Population Index

URL:http://popindex.princeton.edu/

Population Index is a reference tool to population literature. It includes a bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, and working papers on population topics. It also provides a searchable database with 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000.