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All Species The All Species Foundation has a goal of finding and classifying all species on the earth. This site promotes their cause, lists new species, and provides links to biodiversity sites.
www.all-species.org

BIODIDAC : a bank of digital resources for teaching biology. This is a database of 5,000 drawings, photos, and videos for use by teachers.
http://biodidac.bio.uottawa.ca

Biodiversity and Biological Collections "An academic resource for general information on specific species." It includes a directory of biologists and reports.
http://biodiversity.uno.edu

Kimball's Biology Pages This is an online reference manual based on John Kimball's textbook Biology (4^th ed). It is strong in the fields of cellular and molecular biology. http://biology-pages.info

Major Biomes of the World Radford University maintains this site, which is part of a teaching module for its geography students. Each biome is described in terms of its plants, soils, animals, and climate.
www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html

National Science Digital Library new science portal for k-12 educators
http://www.nsdl.nsf.gov

NatureServe "Knowledge to protect the diversity of life." This site is produced by the Association for Biodiversity Information. It has a searchable index to plants, animals and ecological communities of the US and Canada.
www.natureserve.org

NCBI Taxonomy Homepage The National Center for Biotechnology Information provides this index to more than 80,000 species. The index is searched by scientific name.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/

Public Library of Science--"The Public Library of Science (PLoS) is a non-profit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource." Currently this resource offers newly published articles in the field of biology.

WorldBiomes.com This site introduces five major biomes. It contains maps, links to other sites, and bibliographies. (Some of the links are to commercial sites.)
www.worldbiomes.com

EPA: Window to My Environment. From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency this interactive site allows users to obtain local information about environmental issues.
www.epa.gov

Extreme 2000 : Voyage to the Deep. This marine biology site follows the deep sea voyage to the bottom of the Sea of Cortes aboard Alvin. It also includes information about plate tectonics and hydrothermal vents.
www.ocean.udel.edu/deepsea/home/home.html

MEDLINEplus Health Information: Biological and Chemical Weapons The National Institutes of Health provides information about biological weapons, such as anthrax, botulism, smallpox, tularemia, etc. It also gives current news about bioterrorism.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/chemicalweapons.html

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Photo Library This site contains 16,000 photos of the seafloor, marine animals, coral, and coastlines.
http://photolib.noaa.gov

Nature Conservancy Official web site for this organization whose goal is the protection of habitats.
http://nature.org/

Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center From the U. S. Geological Survcey, "the mission of Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center is to provide the scientific information needed to conserve and manage the nation's biological resources, with an emphasis on the species and ecosystems of the nation's interior."
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov

Scorecard.org--From Environmental Defense, this site provides information about leading environmental hazards and enables you to rate your community's environmental quality.
http://www.scorecard.org/

Southwest Biotechnology Informatics Center (formerly the National Biotechnology Information Facility) This site promotes information sharing between biotechnology researchers in academia, industry and government. Provides links to other biotechnology sites.
www.swbic.org

US Environmental Protection Agency This site is looked at 25 million times a month. Users of all ages and abilities can do keyword searches on the entire database or in any subsection. Special features are EPA policies section and Maps on Demand.
www.epa.gov

Virtual Library: Developmental Biology The Society for Developmental Biology, which promotes the study of development in all organisms, maintains this web site. It is a directory to sites by subject, by organism, to university departments, to societies, and to journals and publishers.
http://sdb.bio.purdue.edu/

IUCN Red List of Endangered Species-- from the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, basic and advanced search interfaces available. Keyword searchable. Searches can be focused by region, country and other criteria.

Nature Serve Explorer-- a source for authoritative conservation information on more than 50,000 plants, animals, and ecological communities of the United States and Canada. NatureServe Explorer provides in-depth information on rare and endangered species, but includes common plants and animals too.

Agripedia The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture has put background materials from 30 of its courses. It also contains an online dictionary.
www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia

International Plant Names Index "An authority file database to scientific names of all seed plants." This site is a combined project of several organizations, including Kew Gardens, the Harvard Herbarium, and the Australian Plant Name Index.
www.ipni.org

Internet Directory for Botany The IDB is an index site prepared by the Harvard University Herbarium and the Missouri Botanical Garden. It provides links to over 4,000 other botanical sites and has an index which is easy to use.
http://www.botany.net/IDB

ITIS Data Access Users can search plants and animals on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System by their common names, scientific names, or taxonomic serial number.
www.itis.usda.gov

Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases A collection of searchable databases hosted by the US Department of Agriculture. It provides information on medicinal plants.
www.ars-grin.gov/duke

PLANTS National Database The US Department of Agriculture has compiled information on 45,000 plants. For each plant the database supplies information on names, origin, distribution maps, family name, etc.
http://plants.usda.gov/

Genetics Education Center This site is produced by the Genetics Education Center of the Kansas University Medical Center. Useful to educators and students.
www.kumc.edu/gec

Human Genome Project Information The National Institutes of Health and the US Department of Energy began this project in 1990. Its purpose is to identify and classify the 30,000 genes in human DNA.
www.ornl.gov/TechResources/Human_Genome/home.html

AGI GIS--"This on-line dictionary of GIS terms is brought to you by the Association for Geographic Information and the University Of Edinburgh Department of Geography. The dictionary includes definitions for 980 terms compiled from a variety of sources which either relate directly to GIS or which GIS users may come across in the course of their work ."

Geographical Information Systems This United States Geological Survey site describes GIS technology, how it functions, and what it is used for.
http://erg.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/gis_poster/

Directions Magazine--"Directions magazine is an internet-centered publication delivering news, analysis, commentary and product information to people who need timely, insightful and accurate information about geo-demographic trends and the tools to analyze them."

Amphibia Web This site contains information on amphibians worldwide. Color photographs are provided.
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/aw

Biologia Centrali-Americana "Biodiversity studies of Central America received an enormous boost recently when the Smithsonian Institution Libraries launched its digital version of the Libraries' Galaxy of Knowledge Web site. It is the largest digital edition ever placed online by the Libraries, representing more than 25,000 pages. The electronic rendition assumes the duties of the original, out-of-print set of 58 volumes that includes virtually everything known about the animals and plants of Mexico and Central America. Descriptions of over 50,000, and images of over 18,000 species of animals and plants are now accessible as never before."

Entomology Index of Internet Resources The Iowa State University Entomology Department maintains this directory of entomology sites on the internet.
www.ent.iastate.edu/List

The Fatbirder Web Site This British site provides links to ornithology sites around the world. There is information on birdwatching, identification guides, and conservation ideas.
www.fatbirder.com

Frogs: A Chorus of Colors--designed and hosted by the American Museum of Natural History, this site highlights the exhibit of the same name, which displays over 200 live frogs from 17 different countries.

Ichthyology Web Resources This web site contains a directory of ichthyologists, learned societies, and museums. It also has a searchable index by taxonomic name and a specimen database.
www.biology.ualberta.ca/jackson.hp/IWR

Wildlife Resources on the Internet This is a searchable directory of wildlife resources. It finds scientific and educational sites, as well as home pages of zoos, aquariums, and organizations.
www.jiwlp.com/resw.html


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