LibGuides: Free Resources: Ecology & Natural Science

Agriculture

Agriculture - University of Colorado
Agriculture Dictionary
IFAS - Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida
Agricultural Products
Agriculture and Rural Development - World Bank
American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
Citrus Industry Links
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the U.N.
Gender in Agriculture and Rural Development (FAO)
Index Nominum Genericorum (ING)
Index to the Manuscript Collections - National Agricultural Library
International Federation of Agricultural Producers
National Agricultural Law Center
NIOSH Agriculture Page - CDC
UKAgriculture.com

Beach Erosion/Nourishment

Beach Erosion and Coastal Erosion in Southern California

Beach Erosion Control Program (BECP)
Coastal Erosion (National Oceanography Centre)
Coastal Erosion in Hawaii
Coping with Beach Erosion - UNESCO
Economics of Florida's Beaches
EPA Oceans and Coasts
Florida Beach Nourishment Locations
Florida Department of Environmental Protection (Beaches)
Florida Oceanographic Online - Sand Dunes
Global Coral Reef Alliance
Guidelines on Beach Monitoring for Coastal Erosion (Conscience-EU)
NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
Stabilizing Your Shoreline to Prevent Erosion
Stop the Beach Renourishment v. Florida Dept. of Envt’l Protection (08-1151)
University of South Florida Coastal Research Laboratory Links
USGS Coastal and Marine Geological Program
USGS West Central Florida Coastal Studies Project
The Why Files: Beach Erosion

BP Oil Spill (Deepwater Horizon)

AIRNow (air quality)
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM)
CDC Gulf of Mexico Oil Cleanup
Crude Oil Spills and Health - NIH
Deepwater Horizon (State of Florida)
Earth Scan Spill Maps
EPA Response to BP Spill in the Gulf of Mexico
EPA: Oil Spills
Global Marine Oil Pollution Information Gateway
Gulf Oil Spill Information Center - USF
NOAA - Gulf Spill Restoration
NOAA - Responding to Oil Spills
Oil Spill - Encyclopedia of Earth
USCG Sector Mobile Digital Area Contingency Plan

Biology/Life Science

Actionbioscience
Amphibian Species of the World
Animal Diversity Web
Animal Genome Size Database
Animal Science Image Gallery
Avibase

BioMed Central

Catalogue of Life
Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
Conservation Biology
Conservation Biology Institute (CBI)
Electronic Scholarly Publishing
enature.com
Encyclopedia of Earth
Encyclopedia of Life
Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS)
Endangered Species Program: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI): Databases
FishBase
Flora Europaea
Flowers, Plants & Trees - Learning about Botany
Ichthyology (Florida Museum of Natural History)
Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Mammal Species of the World
MIT Video Lecture Series on Biology
Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences
Plant DNA C-values Database
PLANTS Database
Plants for a Future (PFAF)
Postcodes Plant Database
Primate Info Net
The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Transterm
Tree of Life Web Project
United Nations Environment Programme - World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC)
VADLO:Biomedical and Life Sciences Search Engine
Wikispecies

Ecology

Definition:

The scientific study of the processes influencing the distribution and abundance of organisms, the interactions among organisms, and the interactions between organisms and the transformation and flux of energy and matter.

Source: Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Climate Change Resources
Conservation Hall of Fame (National Wildlife Federation)
Ecology Dictionary
Environmental News Network

Florida Environments Online (FEOL)

International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE)
Science Aid: Ecology
Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) International
South Florida Ecosystem History Project
United Nations Environment Program
World Resources Institute

General Science Resources

Access Science (McGraw-Hill)
Earth Scientist's Periodic Table
Energy Citations Database
Find Science in Resources by Topic
Free Science Information
Government Science Resources
Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century
Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem: A Coastal and Marine Atlas
HowStuffWorks
Museum of Science (Boston)
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)
Nobel Prize
Popular Science
Science.org
Science and Engineering Statistics
Science Central
Science Daily
Free Teacher Resources (Discovery Education)
Science News
Scientific American
Smithsonian Museum
Top 20 Most Popular Science Websites
Weather Resources (Louisiana State University)
Women and Minorities in Science and Technology: A Guide to Selected Resources
World-historical Dataverse

Geoscience

BES Subprogram Descriptions
Department of Energy (U.S.A.)
Directorate for Geosciences (GEO)
Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society - GRSS/IEEE
Geoscience Laser Altimeter System (GLAS)
Geoscience Research Institute
Geoscientists
Icelandic-English Glossary of Selected Geoscience Terms
Kentucky Geolological Survey
NOAA/NGS Geosciences Research Division
NPS Geology Resources Division
Open Access Collections and Journals (Geosciences)
PDS Geosciences Node, Washington University
Teaching Geoscience with Visualizations
U.S. Geological Survey
USGS Geoscience Data Catalog

Journals

Chemical Synthesis Database
Ecology and Society
ESA Online Journals - Ecology
Free Full-Text Journals in Chemistry
International Journal of Biological Sciences
PLoS Biology

Statistics (Environmental)

Environment Statistics Snapshot, U.S.
Environment Statistics- all countries
Environment, Energy and Agriculture Statistics
U.S. Energy Information Administration Statistics

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025 3:31 PM