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.   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
    • Hormones in the Environment Lecture Pix
    • Pharmaceuticals, Hormones, and Other Organic Wastewater Contaminants in U.S. Streams, 1999-2000: A National Reconnaissance
    • Introduction to Hormone Disrupting Chemicals Not all toxins in the environment are poisons!
    • The Estrogen Receptor Ways in which ecotoxins can affect systems at the receptor level.
    • Hormone Imposters Consequences.
    • Sperm count decline confirmed
    • Hormonally Active Agents in the Environment
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?
    • Population Growth
    • Climate Change
    • Hormones and Hormone Disruptors in the Environment
    • Pesticides and other contaminants in the environment
    • Water
    • Ecosystem Simplification
    • Invasive Species
    • Loss of Biodiversity
    • Mass Extinction
    • Transgenic Crops
    • Nanotechnology
    • Emerging Diseases
    • BioTerrorism
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