General
Project Seahorse (related to video planned for just before the exam)
Biodiversity Glossary of Terms
What does Ecology have to do with ME? a quick blurb from the Ecological Society of America on the importance of this topic
Issues in Ecology — Reports by The Ecological Society of America on pressing issues. Current topics include:
Human Alteration of the Global Nitrogen Cycle: Cause and Consequences;
Ecosystem Services: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems;
Nonpoint Pollution of Surface Waters with Phosphorus and Nitrogen
Natural History and Biodiversity on Land and Water
Wayne’s Word – lots of short articles on interesting natural history. Based in San Diego
http://www.discoverlife.org – “all taxon survey” (Complete biodiversity inventory) in great smokey mountain park, Tennessee, USA
US National Parks Service – lots of info on natural history of the parks and their biota, history, and geology
National Wetlands Research Center
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology
Great Lakes Information Network
Web of Life (Site devoted to a video last viewed Spring 97)
Marine Biology Explorations — lots of information and many images
Climate
Online Guide to Meterology, including El Nino
World Meterological Organization
Life on Land and Water
Guide to Biomes (Missouri Botanical Garden)
Introduction to Biomes (Radford University) — geography course with some visuals and other info.
Physiological Ecology
Index of Autoecological Accounts – Find information on the biotic and abiotic requirements of different species
Distribution
Breeding Bird Survey — Loads of data and information about birds and their ecology — life history data, pictures, maps, songs.
Africanized honey bee info from UC Riverside.
Biota of North America Project — checklist and distributions for many plants and animals
Species in Parks – database of flora and fauna of National Parks
NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life, with distribution maps for many species. http://www.natureserve.org/explorer.
Northern Prairie Biological Resources — great source for state and county distribution maps, species lists, etc.
Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility. Parts of the at the Canadian National Collection have been databased, digitized and georeferenced, with unique identifier labels added to each specimens. It is now available online at http://www.cbif.gc.ca/portal/digir-toc.php
Powers of 10. Nice illustration of different scales of observation.
Population Dynamics
Online investigations – Salmon life history and biology
Population Growth and Human Population
Populus (ecology computer program) – To get the JAVA version of the program (runs on any machine), click on “download”, then download both the Java runtime machine, and the Populus 5.1 program (in the second paragraph). A DOS version is also available
Online population modeling — like Populus, but web-based
Population Reference Bureau Data on World Population Growth (For assignment)
LIVE count of world population
6 Billion Human Beings – Nice exhibit from the Musée de l’Homme, Paris
1998 Revision of the UN World Population Estimates and Projections
The Population Institute – advocacy group, but useful information and presentation
Competition
Ecological Niche Theory According to Dr. Seuss
Exploitation
Emerging viruses and human population growth
On-line simulation of Lotka volterra predation with harvesting won’t run on some machines
Gypsy Moth background on this pest
Mutualism
Diversity
Mapping Biodiversity — project run by the San Diego supercomputing center.
Food Webs
Primary Production
Nutrient Cycling
Ecosystem Science and Technology at NASA
Succession
Mount St. Helens — movies, biotic responses, and more. From VolcanoWorld
Scaling from trees to forests — Analysis of a complex simulation model in Science Magazine online
Landscape Ecology
GAP Analysis – A geographic approach to planning for biodiversity
Geographical Ecology
Global Ecology
A paleo perspective on global warming (from NOAA)
World Wildlife Fund Report on Global Warming:
Earthshots – satellite images of global change (USGS)
US Global Change Research Information Office
Invasives
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/ US National Parks Service info on invasive plants
Federal Interagency Committee for the Management of Noxious and Exotic Weeds.
Other Ecology Sources with Sites Worth visiting
SUNY Geneseo — Excellent News Links, Good resources
General Ecology and Environmental Science Links
Ecosystem services — communicating the value of natural systems to the public
Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network (Canada)
Long Term Ecological Research Network (US)
CSUBIOWEB lots of cool biology links
List of WWW sites of interest to ecologists
WWW Virtual Library of Ecology and Biodiversity
Endangered species home page — US Fish and Wildlife service
Pymatuning Ecology Lab (summer field courses!)
Rocky Mountain Biological Lab (summer field courses!)
Environmental Sites on the Internet
Environmental scorecards — how much pollution in your community?
The Lorax — The text of Dr. Seuss’s Environmental Story
Sites for Local Field Trips
MetroParks Serving Summit County (this link is to the calendar of events – explore this site for other useful information)
Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area (this link is to the calendar of events – explore this site for other useful information)
ODNR Ohio Division of Natural Resources — Portage Lake Park, others.
ODNAP – Ohio Division of Natural Areas and Preserves. Many great places that are only open at special times, when guides are available. Try Kent Bog or Jackson Bog.
NorthEastern Ohio Naturalist – listing and background on hikes in our area
Your Future!
Jobs in Field Biology (and other areas of Biology) — A how-to page we maintain here at the University of Akron! Emphasizes local opportunities for employment and experience.
Biology Careers Page Furman University
Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center (Be a counselor for 5th grade nature camp! Earn College Credit!)
Career Center, University of Akron Information on careers, jobs, internships, job search, interviewing, etc. Make an appointment and work with them to plot your career plans.
See the Job announcements posted in the Biology Department’s mailroom and halls
E-mail me (Dr. Mitchell) and ask to be put on his jobs e-mail list — as job, internship, research assistant, summer employment, and other opportunities cross my desk, I forward them.
School and Study
How to get more out of your study time Tips from my first University Biology teacher (and the best pure teacher I had as an undergraduate) UC Davis
Study suggestions for Biology University of Georgia
A student guide to essay exams (Stanford)
Science and Math
Science Friday: (“RealAudio” {i.e. listenable} discussions with famous and important scientists, often about ecological and biological issues. From the National Public Radio program aired locally on WCPN)
The Why Files (Science behind the news)