Open Directory - Science: Biology: Ecology: Ecosystems
See also: This category in other languages: - Technical paper on the importance of biodiversity and mutualism (co-operation between different species) to ecosystem function and structural organization. - Fact sheets, photos, and video clips on the climate, location, animal and plant adaptations, land formations, and human influences of seven major terrestrial biomes: tundra, taiga, temperate forest, grassland, chaparral, desert, and rainforest. - IUCN task force report on methods for optimizing national protected areas systems that maximise species conservation through targeted selection based on broadly accepted ecological principles. [PDF] - Constituted by the Ecological Society of America to support and facilitate the creation of standardized, scientifically credible North American vegetation type classification. - The World Institute for Conservation and Environment, WICE, provides information, tools and resources. - Photographs of plants, animals, and landscapes from dry tropical habitats in the Americas, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. Dry tropical habitat types include tropical dry forest, tropical deciduous forest, thorn forest, spiny desert, savannah, cerrado, and caatinga. - Photographs by ecologist Len Webb depict a wide variety of native vegetation, fauna, landscapes, and soils, mainly in tropical and subtropical Northeastern Australia. Represents a wide range of ecosystem types. - Descriptions and images of the biomes of the world, freshwater ecosystems, and marine ecosystems. From the Missouri Botanical Garden. - Report of a scientific appraisal of the condition and trends in the world’s ecosystems and the services they provide, as well as the scientific basis for action to conserve and use them sustainability. - Maps, descriptions, and index to 687 ecoregions across the globe. Javascript required. - A long term old-field permanent-plot ecological succession study on the New Jersey Piedmont. - Project to protect the ecosystems of the Western Bug basin, on the boundary between Poland and Ukraine, by collaboration between the two countries. - Introduction to aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra biomes. School class project. - Covering five of the major world biomes.
