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Here is a list of Ecology web sites. This list is by no means complete, but will help you begin your search!
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| List of WWW Sites of Interest to Ecologists | ||
| This is a large index of Web sites related to Ecology, with the sites arranged alphabetically by title. Thankfully, there is also a search engine, although it is also interesting to browse -- you never know what you might find. If you're looking for Web-based information regarding ecological topics, this is the place to start. ( http://www.uregina.ca/science/biology/liu/bio/Ecology-WWW.html ) | ||
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| National Science Foundation | ||
| In 1980 the National Science Foundation started the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program to foster ecological research on ecological processes that occur on longer time scales and which, therefore, had not been particularly well-studied by most (= short-term) ecological research projects. ( http://www.nsf.gov/ ) | ||
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| LTER sites | ||
| Currently there are 21 LTER around the country (including Cedar Creek Natural History Area in Minnesota and Konza Prairie in Kansas). There is an enormous amount of information available on this and connected sites including detailed information about the goals of the program, specific discussion of the research performed at each LTER site, and data collected at each site. ( http://www.lternet.edu/network/sites/ ) | ||
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| WWW-Server for Ecological Modelling | ||
( http://dino.wiz.uni-kassel.de/ecobas.html ) | ||
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| The University of Kassel | ||
| Provides some information about the use of mathematical models in ecology. Most interestingly, there are a few links to
online documents that discuss various issues of ecological modelling:
"Mathematics and Biology: The Interface" and
"Connectivity and Complexity in Landscapes and Ecosystems". ( http://www.uni-kassel.de/ ) | ||
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| Ocean Planet Exhibition | ||
| This is an online version of a traveling exhibit that opened at the
Smithsonian Institution's
National Museum of Natural History and will be traveling around the country through the year 2000. The exhibit is meant to immerse (pun intended) the viewer in ocean biology, stressing the ecology and biodiversity aspects. You start at a clickable map of the exhibit's floorplan which will allow you to move to different parts of the exhibit (e.g., "Oceans in Peril"). ( http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/ocean_planet.html ) | ||
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| The Tropical Rainforest in Suriname | ||
| This is a wonderful site that is loaded with images and sound files about the rainforest ecosystem in Suriname. (
Click here for a map of South America,
here for some background information about the country, and
here for additional links about Suriname.) The author of this site brings a lot of the rainforest right to you -- sights and sounds -- and even though there are some misspellings and examples of poor grammar, the material is very good at giving you a feel of being in the rainforest. Recommended: Javascript-enabled browser. ( http://www.euronet.nl/users/mbleeker/suriname/suri-eng.html ) | ||
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| Ecological Society of America | ||
| The Ecological Society of America is the leading professional society for ecologists in the United States (
click here to learn more about the ESA). From this site you can connect to online versions of the ESA's Issues in Ecology series, the
ESA's newsletter, and several reports (e.g., "Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management"). Required:Acrobat Reader for Issues in Ecology. ( http://esa.sdsc.edu/ ) | ||
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| Animal Behavior Society | ||
| This is the official web site for the Animal Behavior Society, a professional society of biologists studying animal behavior. There are links to many Internet newsgroups and electronic newsletters dealing with animal behavior with instructions on how to access/subscribe. There is also a
document that provides a short introduction to the science and its uses and importance. ( http://www.cisab.indiana.edu/animal_behavior.html ) | ||
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| 6 Billion Human Beings | ||
| Wow! This wonderful site from Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle deals with human population growth. The front page has a constantly updated global human population clock (see also the
population clocks at the U.S. Census Bureau). Most compelling is the ability to compute statistics such as how many people have been born since you appeared on the planet, the per capita contribution to population growth per geographic area and the effect of mortality factors on population growth. Definitely visit this site. Required: Java-enabled browser and
Shockwave plugin ( http://www.popexpo.net/english.html ) | ||
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| Virtual Foliage Home Page | ||
| On this site from Department of Botany at the University of Wisconsin - Madison you will find a vast collection of images of various plants and biomes. The collections are organized around topics: General Botany, Plant Systematics Teaching Collection,
Dendrology (trees) and
Vegetation of Wisconsin. There is also a useful searchable index of the entire image collection (i.e., type in the common or scientific name of a plant -- for example Acer saccharum or
sugar maple). ( http://www.wisc.edu/botany/virtual.html ) | ||
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| Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center | ||
| The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center is a unit of the U.S. Geological Survey and their web site "emphasizes natural resource issues and data pertinent to the North American Great Plains ..." so that it will be "... useful to managers, scientists, and the public for addressing issues in the mid-continent." The Biological Resources page contains links to some interesting material relating to northern prairies and is arranged by type (e.g., software,species descriptions and checklists, identification tools), taxon (e.g., mammals, plants) and geography (e.g., state/province,
North America). ( http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/ ) | ||
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| The Living Edens | ||
| This is a companion site to the Public Broadcasting Service's natural history series of the same name which explores remote, relatively pristine ecosystems. This is mostly an "ooo-and-ah" site loaded with pretty pictures of organisms and ecosystems, but there is some relevant ecological content. For example, the material on the Namib Desert discusses how the desert changes over the course of day, emphasizing the unique fauna of the desert and particularly when each type of organism is active. ( http://www.pbs.org/edens/ ) | ||
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