Biology

ESR is an international and interdisciplinary journal and publishes contributions reporting research on all species and habitats of conservation concern. Open access to online version.

Field research of the Arctic LTER is based at Toolik Lake, Alaska, in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range. Project is centered at the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

The UK's integrated long-term environmental monitoring network. Information on the network, summary data, environmental indicators, education, and publications.

Environmental consulting and construction firm specializing in marine construction, aquatic and terrestrial habitat restoration, wetland delineation, and stormwater management. Information on qualifications and past projects. Indiana, USA.

Suppliers of native (USA) plants for wetland and stream restoration projects. Location: North Carolina, USA.

Offers expert, independent advice on management of badgers in the UK.

Protected species surveys and workshops, wildlife advice, badger gates for sale and hire, wildlife management and research, training. Located in north Wales, UK.

Fisheries research and monitoring scientists, engineers, and technicians that specialize in counting, tracking, and analyzing fish and wildlife populations throughout the world.

Information for wildlife managers, scientists, and the public on natural resource issues and biota of the North American Great Plains.

Covers all topics on the origins of life, but focuses especially on molecular evolution and evolution in a cosmic context. Abstracts available. Journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life.

Information, user-contributed images, and identification help for insects and relatives of North America.

Directory of the specialists working on brachiopods, recent publications, and systematics and taxonomy of the Brachiopoda.

Photographs of some live lamp shells and some fossil specimens.

Includes characteristics, biology and ecology.

Photographic study by Jean-Marie Cavanihac of the Arrow Worm.

Includes photographs and information on a wide range of mammals and reptiles from Canada, the United States and Mexico. Includes fact sheets and distribution maps.

A brief description of the phylum followed by a long list of annotated photographs.

Information from Wikipedia on this phylum of worm-shaped marine deuterostome organisms.

A useful guide to Australian marine molluscs, providing for each species a description and details of distribution, habitat and biology.

This site provides a searchable database that allows the user to search for taxonomic references by taxon, geographical locality, author or keyword.

Paper by David Gems examining the great variability in ageing patterns observed in different nematode species.

Information on the nematodes Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus which can invade and parasatize humans, and a diagram and information on their life cycle.

Information on the classification of the ribbon worms with a photograph of Tubulanus rhabdotus.

An article by Floyd Sandford about the sponges that are carried around by hermit crabs.

Species list from the USGS on the nonindigenous sponges found in US waters, with factsheets and collection details.

Photographic article on the constituent parts of the jaws of this species.

Photographs and information on this genus of freshwater rotifers.

Information on the classification of the peanut worms with a photograph of Phascolopsis gouldii.

Introduction, taxonomy of the tardigrade genera, and a description of Pseudobiotus megalonys. In German and English.

A Time Magazine article that mentions Abbe Spallanzani, who discovered tardigrades in 1776, approaching the French philosopher Voltaire to ask about the soul of organisms that can be rehydrated and brought back to life.

Information from Wikipedia on various fungi from the order Ophiostomatales which have a symbiotic relationship with the ambrosia beetle.

Tom Volk provides photographs and information on these causal agents of tar spot of maple.

Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this fungus, found growing in a kangaroo's pouch, which provides a missing link between fungi and plants.

Information from Wikipedia about this group of underground fungi which exchange nutrients with higher plants through a mycorrhizal arrangement.

An illustrated introduction to the lichens with information on their ecology and reproduction.

A lichen is a combination of two organisms which live together intimately. Information on their fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics and morphology.

Photographs of Acolium hawaiiense, Acroscyphus sphaerophoroides, Anaptychia leucomelos, Bacidia medialis, Bryoria furcellata, B. smithii, Buellia aeruginascens, B. proximata, B. pruinosa, B. tincta, Caloplaca erythrantha and Teloschistes flavicans.

The Forest Inventory and Analysis service in the United States monitors the lichen community in order to assess the impact of air pollution on forest health.

Information from Wikipedia on this phylum of fungi the members of which are molds living on soil or decaying plant or animal material.

Taxonomy, description, and extensive references, with particular emphasis on the Crenarchaeota (classified here as a Kingdom.)

Taxonomy browser, with some links.

Reports the decoding of the Pyrococcus abyssi, which lives in the intense pressure and temperature of black smoker vents on the seafloor.

Alphabetically and chronologically arranged lists of taxa, with additional information on bacterial taxonomy.

Free to use horticultural and conservation research tool with an up-to-date list of all the world's Cycad species.

Phylogenetic trees, technical descriptions of all orders and families, references, and links. By Peter Stevens of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Article by Wim van Egmond introducing these delicate unicellular organisms that have yellow-brown chloroplasts that enables them to photosynthesize, with fine photographs.

Photographic observations by Jim Evarts of the fission and conjugation of these protozoans.

Includes sections on the fossil record, life history and ecology, systematics, and morphology.

Photographs and information on these single-celled organisms.

Information on slime moulds which were originally considered to be fungi by mycologists and amoebae by zoologists, respectively classified as Myxomycota (slime fungi) or Mycetozoa (fungus animals).