SEE-U 2000: Online Resources

# Online Resources
### Links to Online Scientific Journals To Top of Page ### Links to Online Books Biodiversity, 1988, E. O. Wilson, Editor, F. M. Peter, Associate Editor. Biodiversity II: Understanding and Protecting Our Biological Resources, 1996, Marjorie L. Reaka-Kudla, Don E. Wilson, and Edward O. Wilson, Editors; A Joseph Henry Press book. Biodiversity Conservation in Transboundary Protected Areas, 1996, Alicja Breymeyer and Reginald Noble, Editors; Office of Central Europe and Eurasia, National Research Council. Conserving Biodiversity: A Research Agenda for Development Agencies, 1992, Panel on Biodiversity Research Priorities, National Research Council. Forest Trees, 1991, Committee on Managing Global Genetic Resources: Agricultural Imperatives, National Research Council. Global Environmental Change: Research Pathways for the Next Decade, 1999, Committee on Global Change Research, National Research Council. Managing Water Resources in the West Under Conditions of Climate Uncertainty: A Proceedings, 1991, Committee on Climate Uncertainty and Water Resources Management, National Research Council. Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World, 2000, Peter H. Raven and Tania Williams, Editors; Committee for the Second Forum on Biodiversity, National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council. (NAS Colloquium) Plants and Population: Is There Time?, 1999, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base, 1992, Panel on Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine. Science and the Endangered Species Act , 1995, Committee on Scientific Issues in the Endangered Species Act, National Research Council. Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, 1993, Committee on Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment in the Humid Tropics, National Research Council. Upstream: Salmon and Society in the Pacific Northwest, 1996, Committee on Protection and Management of Pacific Northwest Anadromous Salmonids, National Research Council. Brittanica.com - The Encyclopedia and so much more. To Top of Page ### Links to Valuable Informative Websites A glossary of introductory biologyterms and their definitions, by Dr. Stephen T. Abedon from Campbell et al., 1999. Be patient and allow the page to load once you have chosen your term. Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology Learn about any organism from University of California Berkeley's Museum of PaleontologyPhylogeny Wing. Learn about any organism from The Tree of Life, created by Drs. David Maddison and Wayne Maddison of the University of Arizona. Ms. J. Stein Carter, of The University of California, Clermont College, has several good introductory biology discussions. To Top of Page ### Links Included in SEE-U Intro Texts #### Module 1 - Introduction to Biomes Biomes of the World, College of the Siskiyous, Geography Department Major Biomes of the World, Radford University, Geography Department Tour of Biomes, Wheeling Jesuit University / NASA Classroom of the Future El Niño / Southern Oscillation Page, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Global Positioning System, University of Texas, Austin, Department of Geography To Top of Page #### Module 2 - The Local Biome The Otter Project - for more information on reintroducing the California Sea Otter into the wild and the political and ecological ramifications of that effort. The US LTER Network, or Long Term Ecological Research, exploring longitudinal studies in many biomes across the United States. An introduction to Geographic Information Systems technology, or GIS, from the United States Geological Survey. The USGS home page. ArcView's homepage, by ESRI (the Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.). FileMaker Pro's homepage. To Top of Page #### Module 3 - Natural Selection and Evolutionary Ecology Read more about the Hudson Valley, New York based Institute for Ecosystem Studies Read more about the controversial political action group called Zero Population Growth, which advocates for greatly reducing the rate of human population growth. Tour the University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology's phylogeny exhibit for more information on phylogenetic systematics. Several of Darwin’s books, including On the Origin of Species and Voyage of the Beagle are online here. The Alfred Russell Wallace Page is an excellent site addressing the life of this important scientist. The C. Warren Irvin, Jr., Collection of Charles Darwin and Darwiniana is an excellent site addressing the life of this important scientist. The Introduction to Global Change Course of the Global Change Project, based at the University of Michigan has many excellent informative lectures or resource pages about a diversity of subjects including Classification and Phylogeny and The Process of Speciation, as well as Natural Selection. To Top of Page #### Module 4 - Population Ecology Brown Tree Snake Removal Experiment - these snakes are predators of the endangered Guam Rail and great threats for the continued existence of the birds. For a discussion of matters concerning introduced pest plant species growing exponentially, consult the US Army Corp of Engineers' Aquatic Plant Control Research Program. A nice overview of metapopulation dynamics can be found at Dr. Eric Rexstad's Wildlife Populations and their Management course at University of Alaska, Fairbanks. A useful key to determining the most appropriate population estimation technique can be accessed from the USGS, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center. Several population estimation computer programs are available from Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology, most of which are only available for the PC. Several other population estimation computer programs that involve direct capture of animals are available from Colorado State University's Wildlife departments. An excellent discussion of Natural Resource Biometrics can be accessed from Dr. David Larsen at the University of Missouri. A concise discussion of Population Viability Analysis is available from RAMAS Ecological Software by Applied Biomathmatics. To Top of Page #### Module 5 - Community Ecology For an interesting discussion of a little known migratory insect lineage, consult The North American Dragonfly Migration Project's site. Biosphere 2's Research entry has several descriptions of each of the biomes within the domes, how they were originally composed, and what research is currently being performed within each. For an interesting discussion of the ecological processes in a timberline ecotone in the northern US, consult this reference. The World Resources Institute has excellent discussions of many issues within the conservation of biodiversity, particularly that of the importance of keystone species in an ecosystem. A good key for choosing the proper Community Diversity Index for your goal is available from The University of Leicester. The best statistical package on the market for calculating community diversity indices is EstimateS from Rob Colwell at the University of Connecticut. The users manual also has some discussion of diversity indices. 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