Natural History: Guides to the Web/Portals

1. General/Interdisciplinary
2. Invertebrate Zoology
3. Vertebrate Zoology
4. Mineral Sciences

       1. GENERAL/INTERDISCIPLINARY

• Smithsonian: Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Natural History

 

• Academic Info: Biology & Biological Sciences Gateway
• AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center
• American Southwest: A Guide to the National Parks and Natural Landscapes ...
• Animal Diversity Web
• Animal Info - Animal Organizations, Links,  and Publications
• AQUILINE Wildlife Web
• ASEAN Regional Centre for Biodiversity Conservation (ARCBC)
• Ask-An-Earth-Scientist
• Australian Biodiversity
• BBC Education Evolution Website
• Bio Links (BIOZONE)
• Biodiversity (NBII)
• Biodiversity and Biological Collections Web Server
• Biodiversity Explorer (South Africa)
• Biodiversity Hotspots (Conservation International)
• Biographies of Biologists  (BIOSIS)
• Bioinformatics (BIOSIS)
• Biological Resources (USGS)
• BiologyBrowser (BIOSIS)
• Biology Links (Harvard)
• BIOME Internet Resources
• BioTech: Life Science Resources and Reference Tools
• Canada's Aquatic Environments
• CBIF: Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
• CITES: Animals and Plants Identification Tools
• CONABIO: Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (Mexico)
• CYBERSTACKS
• Digital Librarian
• Digital Library for Earth System Education
• Digital Taxonomy: A Web Resource for Open Source Biodiversity Informatics
• Discover Life
• DMOZ Open Directory Project: Science
• Earth Science World
• EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal
• Ecological Society of America Links
• Ecology WWW Page
• eNature.com (with Online Field Guides)
• Environment Directory
• Environmental Sites on the Internet
• EQNET: Earthquake Information Network
• ESA EdWeb Ecology Course Syllabus Exchange
• Extinction Files (BBC Education)
• GBIF: Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• "GEOBIOLINK"-Database
• Geo-Guide
• GEO INDEX
• Geological Time Machine  (UCMP Berkeley)
• Geology (USGS)
• Geology of Virginia
• Geology Web Links
• Geoscience Australia
• Geoscience Departments WWW Directory
• GEOSOURCE
• Global Change Master Directory (NASA)
• Global Climate Change: Research Explorer
• Hans' Paleobotany Pages
• Hydrology Web
• IABIN: Inter-American Biodiversity Information Network
• INBIO: Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (Costa Rica)
• INFOMINE (Scholarly Internet Resource Collections)
• Internet Resources for Geography and Geology
• Invasivespecies.gov (NBII)
• Investigate Biodiversity (Conservation International)
• Journey into Phylogenetic Systematics
• Kuban’s Paleo Place
• Links for Palaeobotanists
• Live from the Rainforest
• Marine Biology Web
• Marine Biology.org
• Marine Conservation Biology Resources
• MarLIN: Marine Life Information Network
• Microscopy & Imaging Resources on the WWW
• Morphometrics at SUNY Stonybrook
• National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Taxonomy Homepage
• National Library for the Environment
• National Park Service Paleontological Surveys
• Natural History Reference Sources
• Natural Selection (BIOME)
• Nature Navigator: A Guide to British Wildlife (Natural History Museum UK)
• Natureevents
• NBII: National Biological Information Infrastructure
• Nearctica: The Natural World of North America
• Netherlands Biodiversity Information (NLBIF)
• NOAA Paleoclimatology
• Northern Prairie Biological Resources
• OceanPortal (UNESCO)
• Palaeos: The Trace of Life on Earth
• PaleoNet Pages
• Paleontology Resources (UCMP Berkeley)
• Palynology (University of Arizona)
• Phylogenetics Resources (UCMP Berkeley)
• PSIgate: Physical Sciences Information Gateway
• Radiocarbon Web Information
• Rapid Biological Inventories (Field Museum)
• SciCentral: Gateway to the Best Scientific Research News Sources
• SCIENCE.GOV
• SciTechResources.gov
• Species at Risk (Canada)
• Structural Geology Page
• Swiss Biodiversity Forum
• Systematics, Taxonomy & Nomenclature (BIOSIS)
• Talk.Origins Archive
• Teacher Resources (NBII)
• UCMP Evolution Wing
• UCMP Paleontology Portal
• UCMP Phylogeny Wing: Phylogeny of Life
• U.S.G.S. Geology in the Parks
• Virtual Library of Ecology & Biodiversity
• VN Illustrated Database of Mexican Biodiversity
• Wikispecies: Free Species Directory
• WINDandSea: The Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences Internet Guide (NOAA)
• World of Amber
• World of Science (CIRS, France)
• WWW.PALAEO.DE
• WWW Virtual Library: Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• Yahoo Science

• Smithsonian: NMNH: Invertebrate Zoology: World of Copepods

• Amphipod Home Page
• Annelid Resources
• AntWeb (California Academy of Sciences)
• Arachno Web
• Beetle Science (Cornell)
• Biogeoinformatics of Hexacorals
• Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America
• Bug Bytes (USDA)
• BugBios
• Butterflies of North America
• CAS Echinoderm Page
• Cephalopod Page
• Ceratopogonid Web Page
• Chemical Ecology of Insects
• Chironomid Home Page
• Cnidaria Home Page
• Coleoptera World Wide Web Site: USDA SEL
• Conchologist’s Information Network
• Conchology
• Copepod Web Portal
• Crayfish Home Page
• Diptera Site (USDA SEL)
• Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera
• Entomology Index of Internet Resources (Iowa State)
• Grasshoppers: Their Biology, Identification, and Management
• Guide to the Orders of Trilobites
• Insect and Spider Collections of the World
• INSECT Answers (Texas A & M)
• Marine Flatworms of the World
• Moths of North America
• Museum of Entomology: Florida State Collection of Arthropods
• Plant & Insect Parasitic Nematodes Home Page
• Recent and Fossil Bryozoa
• Resources in Protistology
• Scorpion Files
• Seaslug.com
• Singing Insects of North America
• Squid Links
• Termites of the World
• www.coleoptera.org

• All About Birds (Cornell)
• AmphibiaWeb
• Animal Info: Information on Endangered Mammals
• Biology of Sharks and Rays
• Bird Conservation (EPA)
• Bird Links to the World
• Birding on the Net
• Birdnet
• Birds, Birds, Birds (U.S. Fish and Wildlife)
• BirdSource
• Cetacea
• Crocodilians : Natural History & Conservation
• EcoBirds (EcoPort)
• ElasmoWorld
• Electronic Resources on Ornithology
• Fishlink
• Gadus Associates’ List of Fisheries Websites
• Herpetological Contents
• HerpSeeker.com
• HerpNET
• Ichthyology at the Florida Museum of Natural History
• Ichthyology Web Resources
• InfoNatura: Birds, Mammals and Amphibians of Latin America
• Jaap’s Marine Mammal Pages
• Marine Mammal Net
• NOAA Fisheries Shark Website
• Ornithological Web Library (O.W.L.)
• Ornithology: the Science of Birds
• Reptiles and Amphibians of the World
• Whale-Watching Web
• WhaleNet

• ATHENA Mineralogy
• Electronic Volcano
• Essential Guide to Rocks
• How Volcanoes Work
• Links for Mineralogists
• Meteorite Central
• Mineral Resources Program (USGS)
• Mineralogy and Petrology Research on the Web
• Minerals on the Internet
• Volcano Live
• VolcanoWorld
• Volcanoes of Canada

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