Research Guide: Environmental Studies

Environmental Studies at Prescott College includes a wide variety of courses and areas of study, including Animal Biology; Biological Principles; Concepts of Ecology; Conservation Biology; Earth Science; Energy & the Environment; Environmental Ethics; Environmental Geology; Fire Ecology; Food Preservation & Seed Conservation; Form & Pattern in Nature; GIS; Human Ecology; Marine Studies; Natural History & Ecology of the Southwest; Organic Evolution; Philosophies of Interpretive Naturalists; Park & Wilderness Management; Plants & Humans; Soil Science; Southwestern Archaeology; Systematics of Seed Plants; Wetland Ecology & Management; and various Special Topics.

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | Article Databases | eJournals | Web Resources | Citation Styles | Statistics | Organizations

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

Online:

Aquatic, Wetland, and Invasive Plant Glossary
Becoming Human Glossary glossary, news, links
The Borderlands Encyclopedia sections on Culture, Economics, Education, Family and Politics and Government
Encyclopedia of Earth peer-reviewed articles
Encyclopedia of Life
Tree of Life Web Project information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history

ebooks:

Print Reference Books:

Article Databases

Birds of North America BNA Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada.
EBSCOhost searches Academic Search Premier, Environment Complete, and Wildlife & Ecology Studies Worldwide . EBSCOhost contains articles in over 4,700 journals, including more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, the database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,250 journals in the collection.
Google Scholar "enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web."
ProQuest includes Research Library, Biological Sciences, BioOne, Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management, and Dissertations & Theses. It provides one-stop access to a wide range of popular academic subjects. The database includes more than 3,820 titles—over 2,550 in full text—from 1971 forward.
ScienceDirect Full text database with content in environmental studies and psychology

eJournals

full text, academic content

The Environmental Magazine
Ecology and Society
Environmental History
Environmental Politics
Human Dimensions of Wildlife
Journal of Natural History
Marine Ornithology
National Parks Magazine
Searchable Ornithological Research Archive (SORA) full text articles from Auk, Condor, etc.

Web Resources

Biodiversity Hotspots clearinghouse of information for planning and decision-making
Birds of North America
Endangered Species Program includes U.S. and international
The Feather Atlas
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2011
USGS Geology Research and Information

Life Sciences

The Biology Project
USDA PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories