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Ecology

Table of Contents:

Sites with Links
Organizations (Government & Not-For-Profit)
Databases
Climate & Air Resources

Earth & Land Resources
Water Resources
Specialized Sites
eJournals

Sites with Links

Best Environmental Directories - A-Z by subject (Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment, Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
CIESIN - Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University, an "information cooperative"
Envirolink Network - a collaboration between the EnviroLink Network, the Animal Concerns Community, the Sustainable Business Network and GreenMarketplace.com, who are working together to develop a comprehensive resource for individuals, organizations and businesses working for social and environmental change
Information Center for the Environment - Links to environmental projects at UC-Davis and other information related to the environment
NASA's Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) - A comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research

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Organizations (Government & Not-for-Profit)

American Rivers - a national non-profit organization dedicated to restoring rivers and their wildlife. Optional login.
Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)
Goddard Institute for Space Studies - Resources on global climate change - (Columbia University)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Natural Resources Defense Council
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) - Provides the text of OSHA regulations
Resources for the Future - A non-partisan think tank that conducts independent research on environmental and natural resource issues, primarily from an economic standpoint
World Resources Institute.

Databases

Congressional Research Service Reports - Reports on environmental issues for the members of Congress - (Library of Congress, redistributed by the National Library for the Environment)
Envirofacts - A single point of access to select environmental data from the US EPA
Environment Australia - Australian resources
Trade and Environment Database - (American University)
World Agroforestry Centre - (Formerly the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry) - Ths nonprofit was established in 1974 to mitigate tropical deforestation, land depletion and rural poverty by improving agroforestry systems. Sponsored by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research.

Climate & Air Resources

The Climate Diagnostics Center
Greenhouse Gas Online: All about Greenhouse Gas Science - (Dae Reay)
Global Warming - (US EPA)
Indoor Air Quality - (US EPA)
Ozone Depletion - (US EPA)
Ozone Secretariat - (UNEP) - This service has English, French and Spanish versions

Earth & Land Resources

National Drought Mitigation Center - (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
World Soil Resources - (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture: National Resources Conservation Service)

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Water Resources

Index of Watershed Indicators - Maps and water quality statistics - (US EPA)
National Institutes for Water Resources - (NIWR)
Oceanography - (University of East Anglia, Norwich, England)
Water Resources of the U.S.. - (U.S. Geological Survey)

Other Specialized Sites

ENTRI: Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators - (SEDAC and the trustees of Columbia University, New York) - A fast, convenient, comprehensive online service for accessing environmental treaty data.
Environmental Education on the Internet - (NAAE and EEATP) - "Environmental Education Resources on the Internet." English and Spanish.
Great Lakes Information Network - (Great Lakes Commission)
National Wildlife Refuge System - (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
REPP-CREST - Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology
UNEP Chemicals Programme - (UNEP Chemicals' Programme, Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics) - This is the center for all chemical-related activities of the United Nations Environment Programme, whose goal is to make the world a safer place from toxic chemicals. Includes reports, studies and other types of information.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

eJournals and Other Periodicals

Cambridge University Press
Click on above Cambridge link above to access the full title list. Check the Journal Holdings List to verify which titles we subscribe to. A select title is linked below:
- Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 72 (1997) - present
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) - This directory covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. The full text of articles are freely available. The goal is to cover all subjects and languages. There are currently over 1000 journals in the directory
Ecology and Society - formerly Conservation Ecology: A Peer-Reviewed Journal - (Resilience Alliance, Canada)
Earth Times Daily Web Edition: Environment, Business, Health - an online newspaper
Electronic Green Journal - a peer-reviewed journal
Emagazine.com: The Website of E/The Environmental Magazine
Journal of Political Ecology: Case Studies in History and Society
JSTOR Arts & Sciences I & II Collection (University of Michigan )
- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 1 (1970) - 5 years ago (moving wall)
- Ecological Applications 1 (1991) - 5 years ago (moving wall)
- Ecological Monographs 1 (1931) - 5 years ago (moving wall)
- Ecology 1 (1920) - 5 years ago (moving wall)
- Journal of Animal Ecology 1 (1932) - 3 years ago (moving wall)
- Journal of Ecology 1 (1913) - 3 years ago (moving wall)
Multinational Monitor On-Line - ...tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment
Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
- Perspectives on Science quarterly. 6 (1998) - 8 (2000)
- Ethics & the Environment biannual. 6 (2001) - present
University of Chicago Press . Check the Journal Holdings List to verify which titles we subscribe to. A select title is linked below:
- International Journal of Plant Sciences 159 no. 6 (1998) - present

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Last Revised: MS - 10/22/2007