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Ana María Alonso-Zarza and Lawrence H. Tanner (2006): Paleoenvironmental Record and Applications of Calcretes and Palustrine Carbonates. GSA Special Papers 416 (Google books).
American Meteorological Society (website supported by the National Science Foundation): Water in the Earth System Learning Files.
! Lorna Ash & Brett Poulin, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta: Instructional Multimedia, Multimedia Topics, Introductory Biology. Go to: The Carbon Cycle, The Nitrogen Cycle. Online and downloadable flash movies. Excellent!
AStrobiology Web, SpaceRef Interactive Inc.: Life in Extreme Environments.
! R.M. Bateman et al. (1998): Early evolution of land plants: phylogeny, physiology, and ecology of the primary terrestrial radiation. PDF file, Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst., 29: 263-292.
! Anna K. Behrensmeyer (1992; Google books): Terrestrial ecosystems through time.
! J.B. Bennington et al. (2009): Critical issues of scale in paleoecology. PDF file, Palaios, 24: 1-4. See also here.
! Museum of Paleontology, University of California,Berkeley, CA: Online exhibits, The world´s biomes. Environmental divisions defined by the community of organisms adapted to live within them.
Professur Umweltbildung der Universität Potsdam, Virtual College Berlin-Brandenburg: Umweltbildung, Grundlagen der Ökologie (in German).
! BiologyBrowser (produced by Thomson Scientific). This is a free web site offering resources for the life sciences information community. Go to: Subject > Environmental Sciences > Ecology > Paleoecology.
Biology Online. Information in the Life Sciences. Go to: Tutorials > Freshwater Ecology.
! David M.J.S. Bowman et al. (2009): Fire in the Earth System. PDF file, Science, 324: 481-484. See also here (abstract).
! Anthony R. Brach, Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria (Botany Net): Ecology WWW page. A link directory.
Brent H. Breithaupt (1992): The use of fossils in interpreting past environments. PDF file, Pages 147–158, in: Tested studies for laboratory teaching, Volume 13 (C. A. Goldman, Editor). Proceedings of the 13th Workshop/Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education.
! Derek Briggs and Peter Crowther (eds.), Earth Pages, Blackwell Publishing:
Paleobiology: A Synthesis
(PDF files).
Series of concise articles from over 150 leading authorities from around the world.
Navigate from the content file.
There are no restrictions on downloading this material. Excellent!
Worth checking out:
Part 4. Palaeoecology,
Pages 305-414.
Go to:
Palaeoecology.
Tim J. Brodribb et al. (2010): Viewing leaf structure and evolution from a hydraulic perspective. PDF file, Functional Plant Biology, 37: 488-498.
BUBL Information Service, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland: 577 Ecology.
Robyn J. Burnham (2009): An overview of the fossil record of climbers: bejucos, sogas, trepadoras, lianas, cipós, and vines. PDF file, Rev. bras. paleontol., 12: 149-160.
Robyn J. Burnham and Kirk R. Johnson (2004): South American palaeobotany and the origins of neotropical rainforests. PDF file, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B 359: 1595-1610.
Laurie Cantwell (Montana State University), The Science Education Resource Center (SERC), Carleton College: Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations: Using Images, Animations, and Models Effectively, Energy and Material Cycles Visualizations. Animations, images, graphs and photos that can be used to describe Earth's physical and biogeochemical cycles. Visualizations for lectures regarding the tectonic cycle, sea level change, glacial interglacial cycle, carbon cycle and hydrologic cycle.
S.N. Césari et al. (2010): Nurse logs: An ecological strategy in a late Paleozoic forest from the southern Andean region. Abstract, Geology, 38: 295-298.
! Committee on the Geologic Record of Biosphere Dynamics, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences (The National Academies Press): The Geological Record of Ecological Dynamics: Understanding the Biotic Effects of Future Environmental Change. 216 pages, 2005. Produced by a committee consisting of both ecologists and paleontologists, the report provides ecologists with background on techniques for obtaining and evaluating geohistorical information, and provides paleontologists with background on the nature of ecological phenomena amenable to analysis in the geological record. The report can be read online for free!
W.K. Cornwell et al. (2009): Plant traits and wood fates across the globe: rotted, burned, or consumed? PDF file, Global Change Biology, 15: 2431-2449.
N. Rubén Cúneo et al. (2003): In situ fossil forest from the upper Fremouw Formation (Triassic) of Antarctica: paleoenvironmental setting and paleoclimate analysis. PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 197: 239-261.
Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research. A new book series by Kluwer Academic Publishers. Relevant topics include studies focused on terrestrial, peatland, lacustrine, riverine, estuarine, and marine systems, ice cores, cave deposits, palynology, isotopes, geochemistry, sedimentology, paleontology, etc.
Kevin J. Devito, University of Alberta: Wetland Ecology and Management. Lecture notes and readings for anyone interested in water management issues.
Brian J. Enquist et al. (2002): General patterns of taxonomic and biomass partitioning in extant and fossil plant communities. PDF file, Nature.
! William A. DiMichele and Robert A. Gastaldo (2008): Plant Paleoecology in Deep Time. PDF file, Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 95: 144-198. See also here (abstract).
! W.A. DiMichelle, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution,
and T.L. Phillips, University of Illinois:
The Response of Hierarchially Structured Ecosystems to Long-Term
Climatic Change: A Case Study using Tropical Peat Swamps of Pennsylvanian Age.
From:
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS,
National Research Council, Washington, D.C.,1995:
Effects of Past
Global Change on Life.
W.A. DiMichele (1994): Ecological patterns in time and space. PDF file, Paleobiology, 20: 89-92.
D.L. Dineley: palaeoenvironment (From: The Oxford Companion to the Earth).
! dmoz: Science: Biology: Ecology.
L.A. Dyer and D.K. Letourneau (2003): Top-down and bottom-up diversity cascades in detrital versus living food webs. PDF file, Ecology Letters 6:60-68.
Earth Learning Idea
(James Devon, London). Free PDF downloads for Earth-related teaching ideas. Go to:
Environmental
detective (in PDF).
Imagining how the evidence of modern environments could become preserved.
Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). A service of USRA, sponsored by NASA Goddard. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. Browse EPODs by Related Fields, such as Coccolithophore bloom in the Celtic Sea.
EnchantedLearning.com: All About Nature, Biomes - Habitats.
Encyclopedia of Earth. An electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society. Go to: AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere. About organisms, populations and communities, ecosystems, biomes and the evolution of life. More articles here.
ENDS (Environmental Data Services Ltd), London: ENDS Environment Daily. ENDS publishes an in-depth monthly professional journal and a daily internet-based news briefing on European environmental affairs.
Evolution of Terrestrial Ecosystems Program (ETE). Page hosted by Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
H.J. Falcon-Lang and W.A. DiMichelle (2010): What happened to the coal forests during Pennsylvanian glacial phases? PDF file, Palaios, 25: 611-617.
T.J. Flowers et al. (2010): Evolution of halophytes: multiple origins of salt tolerance in land plants. PDF file, Functional Plant Biology, 37: 604-612.
J.-C. Gall and L. Grauvogel-Stamm (2005): The early Middle Triassic "Grès à Voltzia" Formation of eastern France: a model of environmental refugium. PDF file, C. R. Palevol, 4: 637-652.
R.A. Gastaldo et al. (2009): Ecological persistence in the Late Mississippian (Serpukhovian, Namurian A) megafloral record of the Upper Silesian Basin, Czech Republic. PDF file, Palaios, 24: 336-350.
Google Directory:
! Science > Biology >
Ecology.
Science > Biology > Ecology >
Ecosystems.
Science > Biology > Ecology >
Education.
Link directories, with ratings (Google page rank).
The Glossarist.
A compendium of glossaries on various subjects so you can find the best definitions of terms
in which you are interested. Go to:
Environment,
Ecology,
Life
Sciences.
! S.F. Greb et al. (2006): Evolution and Importance of Wetlands in Earth History. PDF file, In: DiMichele, W.A., and Greb, S., eds., Wetlands Through Time: Geological Society of America, Special Publication, 399: 1-40. Devonian, Pennsylvanian, Permian, Triassic and Cretaceous wetland reconstructions.
Douglas J. Hallett and Robert C. Walker (2000): Paleoecology and its application to fire and vegetation management in Kootenay National Park, British Columbia. PDF file, Journal of Paleolimnology, 24: 401-414.
! Stephen T. Hasiotis (2004): Using Trace Fossils to Differentiate between Alluvial, Lacustrine, Eolian, and Marine Paleoenvironments. PDF file, AAPG HEDBERG CONFERENCE, May 2004; Baku, Azerbaijan.
J. Hill and K. Davis, Geology Rocks: The Use Of Diatoms As Palaeoenvironmental Indicators.
Stephen D. Hopper (2009): OCBIL theory: towards an integrated understanding of the evolution, ecology and conservation of biodiversity on old, climatically buffered, infertile landscapes. PDF file, Plant Soil, 322: 49-86.
R.B. Huey et al. (2002): Plants versus animals: do they deal with stress in different ways? PDF file, Integrative and Comparative Biology, 42: 415-423.
R.B. Irmis and J.H. Whiteside 2010: Newly integrated approaches to studying Late Triassic terrestrial ecosystems. PDF file, Palaios, 25: 689-691.
Jeremy B.C. Jackson and Douglas H. Erwin (2006) What can we learn about ecology and evolution from the fossil record? PDF file, Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
Carlos Jaramillo et al. (2010): The origin of the modern Amazon rainforest: implications of the palynological and palaeobotanical record. PDF file, Amazonia, Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past, 1st edition. Edited by C. Hoorn and F.P. Wesselingh.
Julia K. Johnson, Stephen J. Reynolds (Dept. of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University), Nicholas J. Olejniczak, and Jonathan A. Foley (Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment, University of Wisconsin, Madison) Biosphere 3D. The Biosphere 3D site (mostly using maps from the "Atlas of the Biosphere") has links to QuickTime movies of maps of the Biosphere draped over digital topography in globes that you can spin and tilt. Globes may be rotated using the mouse, zoomed using the shift-key, and unzoomed using the crtl-key.
Derek Keats, Botany Department at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Cape Town) South Africa: Tides & the seashore, and Zonation on the seashore.
! Kerry S. Kilburn, Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University: Principles of Ecology, Notes and Links.
M. Alan Kazlev, Palaeos: Terrestrial Mesozoic Ecosystems. See also: Mesozoic Terrestrial Life note form.
M. Konzalová (1994): Some remarks from paleobotany and paleontology to adaptation of plants to the stress condition and survival. PDF file, Geolines, 1.
V.A. Krassilov (2003): Terrestrial palaeoecology and global change. PDF file (35.6 MB), Russian Academic Monographs No. 1, 464 p., (Pensoft), Sophia.
! Kustatscher, E., van Konijnenburg-van Cittert, J.H.A. & Gianolla, P. (2006): The Kühwiesenkopf/Monte Pra della Vacca (Prags/Braies Dolomites, Northern Italy): An attempt to reconstruct an Anisian (lower Middle Triassic) palaeoenvironment. PDF file, 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, 27-29.05.06, Manchester, Abstract and Proceedings Volume, p. 63-66, 164.
Ruta B. Limaye et al. (2007): Non-pollen palynomorphs as potential palaeoenvironmental indicators in the Late Quaternary sediments of the west coast of India. PDF file, CURRENT SCIENCE, VOL. 92, NO. 10.
M. Linek, C. Hildebrandt, & S. Haser, Geologisches Oberseminar 2000/2001, Technische Universität, Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany: Transport- und Ablagerungsprozesse von grobklastischen Sedimenten in verschiedenen Environments. Delta facies, alluvial plain and braided river systems. PDF files, in German.
Jonathan B. Losos and D. Luke Mahler (2010): Chapter 15, Adaptive radiation: the interaction of ecological opportunity, adaptation, and speciation. PDF file.
Yuandan MA et al. (2009): Carbon storage of cycad and other gymnosperm ecosystems in China: implications to evolutionary trends. PDF file, Polish Journal of Ecology, 57: 635-646.
C. Martín-Closas (2003): The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: a review. PDF file, Geologica Acta, 1: 315-338. ^
D. Mauquoy et al. (2010): A protocol for plant macrofossil analysis of peat deposits. PDF file, Mires and Peat, Volume 7.
Brian C. McCarthy, Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens: Plant Community Ecology. Lecture notes (PDF files). See also: Wetland Ecology & Delineation Methods.
Jim Merickel, About.com: Ecology.
! NASA, Earth Observatory. The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide 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. By activating the glossary mode, you can view each page with special terms highlighted that, when selected, will take you to the appropriate entry in the glossary. Use the full-text search engine, or go to: Data and Images. To view a particular dataset, select one of the data types in this column, e.g. Vegetation, or Landcover Classification.
NASA: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). GCMD is a comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. It includes descriptions of data sets (DIFs) covering climate change, the biosphere, hydrosphere & oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change. Go to Solid Earth, Biosphere, or Paleoclimate.
The National Science Foundation, Arlington: Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn). The LExEn research program will explore the relationships between organisms and the environments within which they exist, with a strong emphasis upon those life-supporting environments that exist near the extremes of planetary conditions.
P.E. Olsen (1988): Paleontology and paleoecology of the Newark Supergroup (early Mesozoic, eastern North America). PDF file.
PAGES (a core project of IGBP, funded by the U.S. and Swiss National Science Foundations and NOAA). The primary objective of PAGES is to improve the understanding of past changes in the earth system in order to improve projections of future climate and environment.
! J.G. Pausas and J.E. Keeley (2009): A burning story: the role of fire in the history of life. PDF file, BioScience, 59: 593-601.
R. Toby Pennington et al. (2004): Introduction and synthesis: Plant phylogeny and the origin of major biomes. PDF file, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B, Biol. Sci., 359: 1455-1464. See also here.
R. Prevec et al. (2009): Portrait of a Gondwanan ecosystem: A new late Permian fossil locality from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 156: 454-493. See also here, or there (PDF files).
! Peter H. Raven and Paul H. Zedler: Chapter 31: The Dynamics of Communities and Ecosystems and Chapter 32: Global Ecology (PDF files). Chapters thoroughly updated for the seventh edition of "Biology of Plants", Peter H. Raven et al. (2005).
Resources Inventory Committee (RIC), Government of British Columbia, Canada: Standards. RIC is responsible for establishing standards for natural and cultural resources inventories, including collection, storage, analysis, interpretation and reporting of inventory data. There are keys and identification guides to terrestrial and aquatic organisms of British Columbia on this website, along with field procedures, data collection, etc. Go to: Terrestrial Ecosystems - Ecology, or Terrestrial Ecosystems - Vegetation.
P.D. Roopnarine (2009): Ecological modeling of paleocommunity food webs. In Conservation Paleobiology: Using the Past to Manage for the Future, Paleontological Society Short Course, October 17th, 2009. The Paleontological Society Papers, Volume 15, Gregory P. Dietl and Karl W. Flessa (eds.).
! R. Rößler (2000): The late Palaeozoic tree fern Psaronius - an ecosystem unto itself. In PDF, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 108: 55-74.
Nick Rowe and Thomas Speck (2005): Plant growth forms: an ecological and evolutionary perspective. PDF file, New Phytologist, 166: 61-72. See also here.
Valentí Rull (2010): Ecology and Palaeoecology: Two Approaches, One Objective. PDF file, The Open Ecology Journal, 3: 1-5.
H.M. Sachs et al. (1977): Paleoecological transfer functions. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Vol. 5. See also here (abstract).
G.N. Sadovnikov (2011): On Quantitative and Semiquantitative Analysis of the Paleozoic-Mesozoic Nonmarine Paleoecosystems. In PDF, Paleontological Journal, 45: 105-111.
! Schmidt, Diane, Allison, Melody M., Clark, Kathleen A., Jacobs, Pamela F. and Porta, Maria A.,
Libraries Unlimited (a member of the Greenwood Publishing Group):
Guide to Reference and Information Sources in Plant Biology.
This directory contains the URLs and annotations for Web-accessible resources. Go to:
Ecology.
Ernst-Detlef Schulze, Erwin Beck, Klaus Müller-Hohenstein (2005): Sample pages, Plant Ecology. Keywords for this textbook are e.g. autecology, ecophysiology, ecosystem ecology, plant ecology, synecology. Worth checking out: Table of contents (PDF file). Go to: 4.1 Historic-Genetic Development of Phytocenoses and Their Dynamics (PDF file).
George Sly, Union High School, Dugger, Indiana (Classrooms of the 21th Century): Teaching Tropical Rainforest Biology.
R.A. Spicer and A.B. Herman (2010): The Late Cretaceous Environment of the Arctic: A Quantitative Reassessment based on Plant Fossils. PDF file, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
No registration required. Go to:
John Southard: Special Topics in Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences:
The Environment
of the Earth´s Surface. PDF files. The course combines aspects of geology, climatology,
hydrology, and soil science to present a coherent introduction to the surface of the
Earth.
Spence & Bruneau, CFAT, Menlo School, Atherton, CA: Biology Powerpoint Presentations. Go to: Ecosystems (28.1 MB! -PPT file), and Biomes (4.2 MB, PPT file).
Larry T. Spencer, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH: History of Ecology. Including an annotated bibliography.
Vincent St.Louis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton: Boreal Ecology. Lecture notes and web links.
! T.N. Taylor and J.M. Osborn (1992): The Role of Wood in Understanding Saprophytism in the Fossil Record. PDF file.
T.N. Taylor and J.M. Osborn (1996): The importance of fungi in shaping the paleoecosystem. Abstract, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.
The Teaching Ecology Group (a specialist group of the British Ecological Society): Review. Book reviews, with rating. The aim of this site is to provide a rapid method of providing reviews on the latest publications that can affect your work as ecologist or educator.
! D. Uhl (2006): Fossil plants as palaeoenvironmental proxies - some remarks on selected approaches. PDF file, Acta Palaeobotanica, 46: 87-100.
From the Universities Space Research Association´s Earth System Science Education (USRA): Earth System Science Online. Earth system science views the Earth as a synergistic physical system of interrelated phenomena, governed by complex processes involving the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.
U.S. Salinity Laboratory (USSL): Visit the Salt Tolerance Bibliography Database. Also see the related Crops and Ornamentals Salt Tolerance Database.
P. Vanderschaegen, Winter Wren AP Biology: SPHS Advanced Placement Biology Handouts. Go to: COMPARISON OF WATER VERSUS LAND LIFE IN PLANTS.
Elizabeth Anne Viau, Charter College of Education, California State University, Los Angeles: World Builders, Session Eight, Terrestrial Botany, Plants on Land. Go to: Introduction to Biomes.
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Open Courseware.
Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from MIT.
No registration required. Go to:
Kelin Whipple and Ben Crosby: Surface
Processes and Landscape Evolution. The course (PDF files) offers an introduction to
quantitative analysis of geomorphic processes, and examines the interaction of climate,
tectonics, and surface processes in the sculpting of Earth´s surface.
Marine Biology Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, and Montana State University, Bozeman, MT: Microbial Life - Educational Resources. This site contains a variety of educational and supporting materials for students and teachers of microbiology. You will find information about microorganisms, extremophiles and extreme habitats, as well as links to online resources, teaching and learning activities.
Peter Wilf et al. (1998): Portrait of a Late Paleocene (Early Clarkforkian) Terrestrial Ecosystem: Big Multi Quarry and Associated Strata, Washakie Basin, Southwestern Wyoming. PDF file, Palaios, 13: 514-532.
Susan Woodward, Physical Geography Working Group, Department of Geography, Radford University: Major Biomes of the World. This module presents basic content on the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes. It considers the structure, characteristic growthforms, and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation; major soil order(s); and common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical savanna, temperate grasslands, desertscrub, and Mediterranean shrub biomes.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Ecology and Biodiversity.
YAHOO:
Science, Ecology,
Science > Ecology >
Ecosystems,
and
Paleoecology.
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