Ecology and Evolution

Browse the catalogue using the following call numbers:

• Evolution: QH359 - QH425
• Ecology: QH540 - QH549

Course reserves

You can search for materials on course reserve using the course code or name of the instructor.

Open Textbooks

• OpenStax science open textbooks, including general biology
• Search OASIS for open textbooks
• Find out more about finding and using open textbooks

eBooks

Schulich Library maintains a list of e-book packages

• AGRICOLA

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  Resources from the United States Department of Agriculture. Includes agriculture, animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries.
• AGRIS - International System for Agricultural Science and Technology

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  International information system for the agricultural sciences and technology created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Contains articles, books and grey literature.
• ASFA (ProQuest Aquatic Science Collection)

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  A suite of databases related to aquatic science; includes Aquatic Science and Fisheries Abstracts, Aqualine, Oceanic Abstracts, and Water Resources Abstracts.
• BioOne

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  Provides access to research journals in biology, ecology and environmental science. Most titles are published by small societies and non-commercial publishers.
• bioRxiv: The Preprint Server for Biology

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  bioRxiv (bio-archive) is a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. Articles are not peer-reviewed, edited, or typeset before being posted online.
• BIOSIS Citation Index (Web of Science)

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  Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Access content from journals, meetings, patents, and books. Backfiles to 1926.
• CAB Abstracts

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  Covers research and literature in the fields of agriculture, forestry, human health, nutrition, animal health, and resource management and conservation.
• Ecology Abstracts (CSA) (ProQuest) - see Environmental Science Index

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  Covers current ecology research, includes papers on evolutionary biology, economics and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
• GEOBASE (Engineering Village)

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  Covers development studies, the Earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, and oceanography.
• GreenFILE (EBSCO)

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  Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Topics covered include global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more
• PAIS Index

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  PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) Index covers policy or other social science and legislative aspects of science topics including, conservation policy, endangered species, wetlands and biodiversity.
• ProQuest Environmental Science Collection - see the Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection (ProQuest)

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  Covers environmental science, environmental impact statements, and the range of bibliographic records from Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management (ESPM).
• ProQuest Illustrata. Natural sciences

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  Now part of ProQuest SciTech Collection. Covers biology, medical sciences, earth sciences, environmental studies, pharmacy, forestry, conservation, public health and education. The database includes searchable tables, figures, and graphs.
• SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)

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  Access to scholarly literature in sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities published in open access journals from Latin American, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.
  
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• Scopus

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  Large multidisciplinary database, includes conference proceedings. Includes citation tracking, and various bibliometric measurements.
• Web of Science Core Collection (All Indexes)

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  Large multidisciplinary database, includes conference proceedings. Includes citation tracking, and various bibliometric measurements.
• Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide

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  Covers studies of individual species, habitat types, hunting, economics, wildlife behavior, management techniques, diseases, ecotourism, zoology, and taxonomy.

Biodiversity and conservation

• Biodiversity Heritage Library - Consortium of natural history and botanical libraries making up an open access "biodiversity commons".
• Canadian Centre for Evidence-Based Conservation - Canadian CEBC is one of six official Collaboration for Environmental Evidence (CEE) centres globally, and the only one of its kind in North America. CEBC members conduct evidence syntheses to support evidence-based decision making and policy development.
• Centre for Evidence Based Conservation - CEBC conducts research and provide training on evidence synthesis and dissemination in environmental management.
• The Collaboration for Environmental Evidence - Contains evidence syntheses and evidence maps to assess the impacts of human activity on environmental policy and management interventions.
• Data.gov - The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. You will find data, tools and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations and more. Contains over 236,000 datasets.
• Data Observation Network for Earth (DataONE) - Secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data
• The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity - A global initiative focused on "making nature's values visible".
• EnviroAtlas - An interactive map that provides geospatial data, easy-to-use tools and other resources related to ecosystem services, their stressors and human health. Produced by the Environmental Protection Agency (United States).
• Environmental Protection Agency Environmental dataset gateway - The Environmental Dataset Gateway (EDG) provides a single point to discover and access EPA's Open Data resources. The EDG contains metadata records contributed by EPA Regions, Program Offices, and Research Laboratories that links to geospatial and non-geospatial resources.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility - International organization that makes biodiversity openly available. 
• Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB) - An efficient way to share, discover, access and interpret complex ecological data.
• The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology - Includes information on organismal, functional and evolutionary biology.
• The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity - Includes country profiles, national biodiversity strategies and action plans, multimedia, thematic databases, etc.
• TranslatE - The translatE project applies scientific approaches to address language barriers in environmental sciences, with the aim of maximising scientific contribution to global biodiversity conservation.

Aquatic and marine biology

• AlgaeBase - A database of information on algae that includes terrestrial, marine and freshwater organisms.
• Census of Marine Life - Assessment of the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life. 
• FishBase - Provides comprehensive species data, including information on taxonomy, geographical distribution, biometrics and morphology, behaviour and habitats, ecology and population dynamics as well as reproductive, metabolic and genetic data.
• Fisheries and Aquaculture Dept of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the UN - Includes relevant material on aquaculture at international, regional and national level. 
• HabitatWizard - A map-based tool created for users to spatially access detailed fish, wildlife and ecosystem information.
• International Council for the Exploration of the Sea - Includes large dataset collections related to the marine environment.
• International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) - Oceanographic data and ocean observations. 
• OceanDocs - Includes preprints, published articles, technical reports, working papers and more.
• Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) Library - Search the Federal Science Library and limit to the DFO collection