La Trobe University LibGuides - Environmental Management

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Web sites that contain authoritative information on plants and animals:

The Encyclopedia of Life

Contains descriptions and information on the ecology, distribution, evolution and systematics of many organisms.
Biology Browser

Links to free Internet resources in the life sciences compiled by Thomson Reuters
Australia National Botanic Gardens

This site has anumber of important resources and databases of botanical information, such as the Australian Plant Name Index.
ICUN Red List of Threatened Species

The IUCN Red List is the world's most comprehensive inventory of the global conservation status of plants and animals.
Fish Base

An excellent Database of information on Fish
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a cooperative project involving ten major institutions to digitise material relating to biodiversity. It is mostly published works that are out of copyright.
uBio
uBio is an index of biological names. It can be useful for finding variations of scientific and common names for a particular organism.

The web sites of organisations which may be useful to you:

Some web sites that may be useful in your studies:

Intute: science, engineering and technology

A directory of authoritative and scholarly web sites. This is a good place to start looking for internet resources.
Australian Natural Resources Atlas

Information on the condition and management of Australia's natural resources.
Geoscience Australia - Australian Place Names search

Use this site to find the location of places in Australia
JAKE (Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment)

JAKE allow you to search by abbreviated journal title to find out the full details of the journal. You can also use it to find out which database a particular Journal is indexed in.

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