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Zoology

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Encyclopaedias: 

Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) began in 2007 with the bold idea to provide "a webpage for every species." EOL brings together trusted information from resources across the world such as museums, learned societies, expert scientists, and others into one massive database and a single, easy-to-use online portal.

Dekker Encyclopedia of animal science

Encyclopedia of Australian animals (4 vols)

Animal: visual guide to the world's wildlife

EOLSS - Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems

Encyclopedia of environmental biology (3 vols)

Grzimek's animal life encyclopedia

Encyclopedia of biodiversity

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Specialised Resources

Specialised Resources: 

Australia, state of the environment 2006

Species Profile and Threats Database

ZooBank

ZooBank is intended as the official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, according to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN).

Web Sites

Web Sites: 

Atlas of Living Australia

Provides linkages between all forms of information about Australian plants, animals and microorganisms. Biodiversity information includes reference lists of species in different groups; databases of information on specimens held in natural history collections; databases of field observations from ecologists, naturalists and others; images and other multimedia; published literature (including digital versions); molecular data sets; identification keys; and a wide range of other databases and web sites.

Clearing-house mechanism - Convention on Biological Diversity

Australian government environment home

Australian Biological Resources Study

Conservation of Australia's biodiversity

CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences

Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Queensland - Wildlife and Ecosystems

Ecological Society of America - Issues in Ecology

OzCoasts

Catalogue of Life

The Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life is planned to become a comprehensive catalogue of all known species of organisms on Earth. The eleventh edition of the Annual Checklist, contains 1,370,276 species, slightly over 2/3 of the world's known species.

Animal Diversity Web

An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation with student use in mind. It includes thousands of species accounts and descriptions of levels of organization above the species level, especially phyla, classes, and in some cases, orders and families.

Tree of Life

The Tree of Life Web Project is a collection of information about biodiversity compiled by expert and amateur contributors. Its goal is to contain a page with pictures, text, and other information for every species and for each group of organisms, living or extinct. Connections between Tree of Life web pages follow phylogenetic branching patterns between groups of organisms, so visitors can browse the hierarchy of life and learn about phylogeny and evolution as well as the characteristics of individual groups.

Smithsonian - Mammal Species of the World

Electronic resources on ornithology

Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity (KNB)