Week 2 Lab Links - Biol 307

Bruce R. Thomas, Ph.D., Adjunct Faculty, Cosumnes River College.

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Biomes

Biome/Habitat Animal Printouts - EnchantedLearning.com
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/biomes/ Lots of great free resources. Some additional resources available after paying a membership fee.

Natural Selection - Biome - Natural History Museum, London
http://nature.ac.uk/ "a searchable catalogue of hand-selected and evaluated, quality Internet resources covering the natural world..."

The World's Biomes - UC Berkeley
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary/gloss5/biome/
Short writeups on all of the biomes.

Biomes of the World - Missouri Botanical Garden
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/
Beautiful site covering all terrestrial and aquatic biomes.

Major Biomes of the World - Radford Univ
http://www.runet.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/main.html
"This module presents basic content on the distribution and nature of the world's major biomes."

Mission Biomes - Earth Observatory Laboratory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome/
"Here you can explore coniferous forests, temperate deciduous forests, deserts, grasslands, rainforests, shrublands, and tundras. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to investigate biomes, then test your knowledge about the biomes by completing each mission."

Blue Planet Biomes - World Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
Great resource for maps, pictures and information.

World Biomes Map - biomes.org
World Biomes - ups.edu

Biogeography

Checklist of Online Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/EART/vegmaps.html

Lecture Notes and Handouts - Environmental Geography, Sweet Briar College
http://ripley.wo.sbc.edu/departmental/env-studies/geo/lecture.htm
Good sections on biomes, biogeography and biodiversity.

Biogeography - New York University
http://www.nyu.edu/projects/fitch/courses/evolution/html/biogeography.html
Discusses Major types of biogeographic distributions, Historical causes of disjunct biogeographic distributions and Evidence for historical biogeography.

Quick Maps of the World - theodora.com

Internet Search Tutorials

Bare Bones 101: A basic tutorial on searching the web
http://www.sc.edu/beaufort/library/pages/bones/bones.shtml
Includes 17 lessons on searching the Internet.

Internet Search Guides - UC Berkeley
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/<>
Finding Information on the Internet. Search the Internet: A Graduated Approach in 5 Steps.