Human Ecology/ Environmental Biology Readings


  1. Global Warming and Climate Change
  2. Rapid climate change and agriculture.
  3. Satellite Imaging
  4. See this Global Environment Report
  5. Limits of Human Growth.
  6. National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) For ecological and environmental information.
  7. Nature's Subsidies to Shrimp and Salmon Farming. Science
  8. Long-Term Agroecosystem Experiments. Science.
  9. Listen to the NPR radio expedition on the Tongass National Forest, the last great intact rain forest in the U.S.
  10. Biomass Decline in Amazonian Forest Fragments.
  11. hell button.gif (5911 bytes)  The World is Going to Hell in a Hand Basket (This is a series of focused readings).
  12. World Population Profile (US Census Bureau). Also, read World Population Profile and World Population at a Glance. NOTE: This is for 1998. Search the first link for later years.
  13. Scorecard for Jefferson County is here.
  14. Simulating the effects of climate change on tropical montane cloud forests.
  15. Transgenic Crops: Introduction.
  16. Environmental Defense Fund. Not just a bunch a tree-huggers. Lots of good links and info.
  17. Ecological and Social Dynamics in Simple Models of Ecosystem Management
  18. The State of Food and Agriculture 1998 (Click on the icon for home page)
  19. IUCN Redlist of Endagered Species
  20. ENDOCRINE DISRUPTERS
  21. Environment, Lifestyle, and Infertility
  22. Ecological Indicators for the Nation
  23. Global Change Ecosystems Research
  24. Predicting Invasions of Nonindigenous Plant and Animal Species
  25. Link to Caulerpa taxifolia in Southern California (A simulation is here)
  26. Biosphere Rant (Summary)  
  27. Mercury in Fish is here and here  Fishing Warning Signs
  28. Contaminants in Polar Bears
  29. So What's Wrong with the World, Anyway?
  30. Trace the SARS outbreak!!
  31. Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases.
  32. Arctic Theme Page
  33. Read about the Arctic's problems here.
  34. Pentagon Report on Global Warming (Get the full report here)
  35. Global Warming and Climate Change
  36. A Worrisome Lack of Leadership: Hurricane Katrina
  37. How Electric Power is Produced
  38. Tropical Forests Unprotected
  39. Bush and the Environment  Then read this