Resource Guide:
General Ecology

• General Ecology
• Biodiversity in Ecosystems: Linking Structure and Function

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
• National Invasive Species Information Center
• The Ecological Society of America
• United States Environmental Protection Agency
• Pew Center on Global Climate Change
• Nature Conservancy
• American Wind Energy Association
• Environmental Defense Fund
• State Health and Environmental Agencies
• United States Geological Survey
• U.S. Department of Agriculture on Climate Change
• N.A.S.A. on Climate Change
• Natural Resources Conservation Service
• Matthew Fonataine Maury Oceanographic Library
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Center for Plant Conservation
• The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species
• Climate Change Policy & Practice
• National Pesticide Information Center
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered Species

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Ecology
• Ecology, History
• Ecology, Moral and Ethical Aspects
• Ecology, Resilience
• Ecology, United States
• Ecology, Chesapeake Bay
• Ecology, Virginia
• Agricultural Ecology
• Animal Ecology
• Animal-Plant Relationships
• Bioclimatology
• Closed Ecological Systems
• Conservation Ecology
• Ecosystem Health
• Extreme Disturbances
• Global Environmental Change
• Environmental Disasters

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• AP News
• Associates Programs Source
• Consumer Health Complete
• Credo Reference
• Environment Complete
• Films on Demand
• GreenFILE
• JSTOR
• Medline
• Newspaper Source Plus
• PLOS Biology
• Proquest Dissertations and Theses Global
• Proquest Major Dailies
• PubChem
• PubMed
• Statista
• Wiley Online Library

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Ecology
• Ecology and Society
• Ecology Law Quarterly
• Ecology Letters
• Ecology, Environment and Conservation
• E: The Environmental Magazine
• Environment & History
• Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.