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The Biomes Group, Museum of Paleontology (UCMP), University of California at Berkeley: The World's Biomes. This is an introduction to the major biomes on Earth.

BUBL Information Service, Andersonian Library, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland: 577 Ecology.

EnchantedLearning.com: All About Nature, Biomes - Habitats.

ENDS (Environmental Data Services Ltd), London: ENDS Environment Daily. ENDS publishes an in-depth monthly professional journal and a daily internet-based news briefing on European environmental affairs.

R. Hays Cummins, Interdisciplinary Studies, Miami University: Earth Science Resources. Geology, oceanography, astronomy and ecology links.

Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD). A service of USRA, sponsored by NASA Goddard. EPOD will collect and archive photos, imagery, graphics, and artwork with short explanatory captions and links exemplifying features within the Earth system. Browse EPODs by Related Fields, such as Coccolithophore bloom in the Celtic Sea.

Derek Keats, Botany Department at the University of the Western Cape, Bellville (Cape Town) South Africa: Tides & the seashore, and Zonation on the seashore.

Edward Lipson, Physics Department, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY: Science for the 21 Century, Lecture XV — Life in Extreme Environments. Lecture slides.

Jim Merickel, About.com: Ecology.

! NASA, Earth Observatory. The purpose of NASA's Earth Observatory is to provide a freely-accessible publication on the Internet where the public can obtain new satellite imagery and scientific information about our home planet. The focus is on Earth's climate and environmental change. By activating the glossary mode, you can view each page with special terms highlighted that, when selected, will take you to the appropriate entry in the glossary. Use the full-text search engine, or go to: Data and Images. To view a particular dataset, select one of the data types in this column, e.g. Vegetation, or Landcover Classification.

NASA: Global Change Master Directory (GCMD). GCMD is a comprehensive directory of descriptions of data sets of relevance to global change research. It includes descriptions of data sets (DIFs) covering climate change, the biosphere, hydrosphere & oceans, geology, geography, and human dimensions of global change. Go to Solid Earth, Biosphere, or Paleoclimate.

The Need to Know Library: Ecology and Environment Links.

Resources Inventory Committee (RIC), Government of British Columbia, Canada: Standards. RIC is responsible for establishing standards for natural and cultural resources inventories, including collection, storage, analysis, interpretation and reporting of inventory data. There are keys and identification guides to terrestrial and aquatic organisms of British Columbia on this website, along with field procedures, data collection, etc. Go to: Terrestrial Ecosystems - Ecology, or Terrestrial Ecosystems - Vegetation.

Vincent St.Louis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton: Boreal Ecology. Lecture notes and web links.

From the Universities Space Research Association's Earth System Science Education (USRA): Earth System Science Online. Earth system science views the Earth as a synergistic physical system of interrelated phenomena, governed by complex processes involving the geosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.

U.S. Salinity Laboratory (USSL): Visit the Salt Tolerance Bibliography Database. Also see the related Crops and Ornamentals Salt Tolerance Database.

Susan Woodward, Physical Geography Working Group, Department of Geography, Radford University: Major Biomes of the World. This module presents basic content on the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes. It considers the structure, characteristic growthforms, and taxonomic affiliations of the vegetation; major soil order(s); and common adaptive characteristics of the fauna of the tundra, boreal forest, temperate broadleaf deciduous forest, tropical broadleaf evergreen forest, tropical savanna, temperate grasslands, desertscrub, and Mediterranean shrub biomes.

The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Ecology and Biodiversity.

YAHOO: Science, Ecology, and Paleoecology.