Western State College of Colorado

Biology

General Biology

• American Museum of Natural History Scientific Publications

• On-line Biology Book

• Science.gov - a U.S. government science portal

Regional Biology

• USGS Biological Research Division - "BRD works cooperatively with Federal and State agencies to share information necessary to develop a comprehensive picture of the Nation's biological resources."
  • Central Region (includes Fort Collins Science Center)
  • Western Region (includes Southwest Biological Science Center)

Botany

• PLANTS National Database - information on 45,000+ taxa of plants in the United States.

• Internet Directory for Botany

• Checklist of On-line Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

Cell Biology & Microbiology

• Cells Alive!

Molecular Biology

• Genetics and It's Impact on Science and Society: The Human Genome Project and Beyond

• National Center for Biotechnology Information

  • Human Genome Resources

Zoology

• Birds of North America (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

• Colorado Division of Wildlife - Find information on animals, fish, diseases and other ssues pertinent to Colorado.

• iSpecies.org - A Species Search Engine - Pulls a variety of information from various sources, including Google. Search by a species scientific name.

• Mammalian Species (American Society of Mammalogists)

• Life Histories of North American Birds by Arthur Cleveland Bent

• DuckData - a searchable bibliography of published literature on the ecology, conservation, and management of North American waterfowl and their wetland habitat.

• Cornell Lab of Ornithology - The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library's Web site is now making available over 65,000 sound clips and about 18,000 video clips of birds and animals.
  
  

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

• Endangered Species

• National Wetlands Inventory

• Smithsonian National Zoological Park

Updated January 2007
Send Comments to Jeremy Nelson, jnelson@western.edu