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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.
! 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.
! Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley: The world's biomes. This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth.
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.
! Anthony R. Brach, Missouri Botanical Garden & Harvard University Herbaria (Botany Net): Ecology WWW page. A link directory.
! 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. Excellent! Go to: Palaeoecology.
BUBL Information Service, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland: 577 Ecology.
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.
! 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!
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.
! 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.
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 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.
J. Hill and K. Davis, Geology Rocks: The Use Of Diatoms As Palaeoenvironmental Indicators.
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.
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.
C. Martín-Closas (2003): The fossil record and evolution of freshwater plants: a review. PDF file, Geologica Acta, 1: 315-338.
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.
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.
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.
! 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.
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).
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 (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.
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.
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.
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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