InfoGuides: BIOL 475 BIOL 675 Conservation Biology: UPDATED Websites

Last Updated: Feb 19, 2024 11:15 AM

Example Web sites/reports/statistics

Ship Noises Mute the Songs of Humpback Whales. By Katherine J. Wu
Drowned out by the din of passing ships, Humpback whales attempting to breed off the coast of Japan are cutting their conversations short. By Katherine J. Wu

(whale sounds included)

Stick to websites by the US government, international governments, professional associations, professionally accepted non profit organizations
Be suspect of volunteer sites, non proft , selling promotional materials, personal sites with bias.
Look at the bottom of the website for the @copyright symbol, when the website was last updated, ownership and contact information, etc.

EPA Healthy Watersheds Protection
Society for Conservation Biology
Working Groups of SCB are groups that focus on a topical area relevant to the mission and goals of SCB. Working Groups provide a voice for important conservation issues not currently addressed amongst SCB's many activities. Please click on the appropriate link below to learn more about SCB Working Groups or about how to create a new Working Group.
Department of Environmental Conservation
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Soils
GBIF | Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Free and open access to biodiversity data
The Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life
Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON)
World Resources Institute
United Nations The Environmental Data Explorer
The Environmental Data Explorer is the authoritative source for data sets used by UNEP and its partners in the Global Environment Outlook (GEO) report and other integrated environment assessments. Its online database holds more than 500 different variables, as national, subregional, regional and global statistics or as geospatial data sets (maps), covering themes like Freshwater, Population, Forests, Emissions, Climate, Disasters, Health and GDP. Display them on-the-fly as maps, graphs, data tables or download the data in different formats.
Census of Marine Life

Grey Network

Coral reef watch
https://aqua.nasa.gov/
Keeping an eye on coral reef health from space
News | June 17, 2015
By Audrey Haar, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Mapping the Decline of Coral Reefs
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab.
NASA

MedlinePlus

PubMed This link opens in a new window
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

NOAA