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BIOLOGY: Ecology & Evolution Course Guide

REFERENCE SOURCES

These are books and websites that will help you gain some background information on your topic, and they can be vital to your understanding of the subject and for topic development.

Encyclopedia of evolution

QH360.2 .O83 2002 (Science Reference)

The encyclopedia of evolution : humanity's search for its origins

GN281 .M53 1993 (Science Library)

Keywords and concepts in evolutionary developmental biology

QH491 .K49 2003 (Science Library)

Habitats and ecosystems : an encyclopedia of endangered America

QH76 .C73 1999 (Science Library)

Describing species : practical taxonomic procedure for biologists

QH83 .W57 1999 (Science Library)

A dictionary of ecology

Documentation Styles for the Sciences

Journal Abbreviations in the Sciences

ONLINE DATABASES

Use online databases as you would a print periodical index. Items retrieved from these databases have been evaluated for content and indexed by subject librarians, unlike items retrieved from a search engine.

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

BasicBIOSIS

BioMed Central

BioOne

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts

IngentaConnect

PubMed / MEDLINE

ScienceDirect

SciFinder Scholar

Scopus

OTHER USEFUL WEBSITES

These websites have been evaluated by the librarians at W&L for relevancy, content, and objectivity.  They include tools to help with your research as well as useful supplemental materials.

Biology Resources at W&L (W&L University Libraries)

Public Library of Science

Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)

Nature Magazine

Science Magazine

Scirus

RefWorks

Biology Department Homepage (W&L University)

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