Web Sites Related to Wetlands

Wetlands for Kids! Compiled by Fall 1999 Biology 578 students Nicole Smith, Shawna Virtue, Teresa Holder, and Rachel Murphy

Wetlands-Related Web Sites Compiled by Biology 578 Students (Fall 97)
Wetlands-Related Web Sites Compiled by Biology 675 Students (Fall 98)

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Publications on the Web

• South Carolina Wetlands: Status and Trends (US Fish and Wildlife Service)

• National Wetlands Inventory Wetland Plant Lists

• "Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States" (the "Cowardin System")

• "Wetlands: Losses in the United States 1780's to 1980's" (Thomas E. Dahl 1990)

• "History of Wetlands in the Conterminous United States" (T.E. Dahl, G.J. Allord)

• "Southeast Wetlands: Status and Trends, Mid-1970's to Mid-1980's" (United States Fish and Wildlife Service)

• Laws, Regulations and other Documents Related to Wetlands

• Section 404 of the Clean Water Act: Overview and Text

• Wetlands Publications of the US Army Corps of Engineers (including the 1987 Wetlands Delineation Manual) -- How to obtain the Delineation Manual

• "Field Indicators of Hydric Soils in the United States" (a USDA publication)

• "Hydric Soils of the United States" (Natural Resources Conservation Service)

• Restoration of Aquatic Ecosystems: Science, Technology, and Public Policy (National Academy Press)

• Estuaries: Journal of the Estuarine Research Federation

• Central and Southern Florida Project Comprehensive Review Study

• Wetlands and economics: An annotated review of the literature, 1988-1998 (M. J. Bardecki)

• Groundwater Atlas of the United States (USGS) (Note: South Carolina information not yet online)

• Environmental Science Journals -- Large list, many with full-text, peer-reviewed articles online!

• Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

• USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station Publications -- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader

• Conservation Ecology online! (a publication of the Ecological Society of America)

• Silvics of North America -- Probably the most authoritative source of general information about North American tree species

• American Journal of Botany -- Full-text, peer-reviewed articles online! (free, for a while)

• Linkages Journal

• National Marine Fisheries Service Digital Collections

• Environmental Law Institute Bookstore

• "Effects of climate on numbers of northern prairie wetlands" (D.L. Larson)

• "Prairie Basin Wetlands of the Dakotas: A Community Profile" (H.A. Kantrud, G.L. Krapu, G.A. Swanson, J.A. Allen)

• "Bibliography for Aquatic Plants" (H.A. Kantrud) (searchable!)

• "National Water Summary on Wetland Resources" (U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2425)

• "Technical Aspects of Wetlands: Wetland Definitions and Classifications in the United States" (Ralph Tiner)

• "The Riddle of the Carolina Bays" (Smithsonian Institution)

• "The Impact of Federal Programs on Wetlands: Volume II" (United States Fish and Wildlife Service) (Volume I apparently not available)

• Read a little about Sandy Island (from the Nature Conservancy)

• Statistical Abstract of the United States

Databases, Applications, and Services

• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Wetlands Protection

• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Plant Information Page

• Wetlands Interactive Mapper (National Wetlands Inventory maps on-line!)

• PLANTS National Database (information on many plant species)

• Texas A&M Plant Image Gallery (huge database of images)

• New York Botanical Garden: Vascular Plant Type Catalog

• Botany 301: Taxonomy of Flowering Plants at Texas A&M University

• Botanical Society of America Online Image Collection

• The Everglades Information Network

• Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations

• Greenwood Digital Information Products Archive (USGS)

• Colorado Natural Diversity Information Source

• South Carolina Plant Atlas (in which our very own Dr. Pinson has played a major role in developing!)

• The Flora of North America (FNA) project

• Fire Effects Information System (information of a great variety of plants and animals)

• National Oceanographic Data Center (NOAA) (especially On-Line Data)

• National Agricultural Pest Information System (NAPIS)

• Vegetation and Plant Distribution Maps

• Global Environmental Information Locator Service

• Tiger Map Server Browser (generate simple maps on the fly--here's an example)

• Color Landform Atlas of the United States

• Microsoft TerraServer (high-resolution aerial photographs on-line!) (Example)

• usgovsearch Federal Government Information Resource

• Thomas (text and status of bills introduced into Congress)

• Statistical Abstract of the United States

 Institutions, Organizations, and Links

• Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Wetlands Protection

• Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife

• US Fish & Wildlife's National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) Home Page

• US Army Corps of Engineeres WES Environmental Laboratory Wetlands Page

• US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Wetlands, Oceans, and Watersheds

• Paul Weihe's Wetland-Related Educational Resources

• Richard B. Winston's Wetland Links Page

• Southeastern Louisiana University Wetlands Restoration Laboratory

• Environmental Law Institute

• Subscribe to the ELI-Wetlands Mailing List

• Wetland and Water Resources on the Internet (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

• South Carolina Department of Natural Resources

• Society of Wetland Scientists (check out their jobs page)

• University of Florida Center for Aquatic Plants

• South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Task Force

• Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

• The Great Dismal Swamp: A History

• Virginia Natural Heritage Program

• Some notes regarding the hydrology of Virginia

• The Nature Conservancy

• The Savannah River Ecology Laboratory

• South Carolina Ducks Unlimited

• Archbold Biological Station, Florida

• The Missouri Botanical Garden

• The New York Botanical Garden

• Wisconsin Herpetology Home Page (Milwaukee Public Museum)

• Phil Levin's Marine Ecology Links

• Wetlands and Riparian Areas (Oregon State University)

News Items Submitted by Biology 578 Students

• HydroWire headlines; see also their home page and their story archives

• "Developers go to court in last-ditch effort to keep wetlands loophole open" (by Rick Spencer)

• "Wetland Corridors Program Details Environmental Impacts of Pipelines" (from the Argonne National Laboratory)

Links to Academic Web Pages

• Wetland Ecology for Teachers (Bio 778), by Dr. Sharon Gilman!

• Biology 370 (Principles of Ecology) Web Page

• Biology 675 (Plant Ecology) Web Page

• Welcome to Waites Island!

• Coastal Carolina University's Home Page

• University of South Carolina

• U.S. Colleges and Universities, sorted alphabetically (BIG list--be patient)

• U.S. Colleges and Universities, sorted by state (BIG list--be patient)

• Peterson's Education Center: Undergraduate Study

• Peterson's Education Center: Graduate Study

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