Foundations in Ecology Recitation - EY 695

Fall 2007

EY 505 Course Website

Useful websites to help with reading ecological papers:

• Looking up words and phrases: Onelook Dictionaries.
  Make sure to check if there is a scientific definition of the word as often the definition will be more restricted in a scientific setting.
• Looking up genetic terms: A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms
• Looking up historical/scientific ideas and personalitites: Wikipedia.
  While Wikipedia is loaded with vast amounts of really great information, it has been created using an "open source" model and as such, the articles are not peer reviewed nor edited by acknowledged experts. So, there are times that the information will be in err, but for the most part, for history, biography, and basic facts it is very useful.
• Looking up philosophical concepts: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Looking up papers, and who referenced them: Google Scholar is a free easy way to access information about scientific publications. Just type in info about the authors and/or title. When it returns the paper you are after in the list you can click on the Cited by link and go from there. Another choice is the ISI Web of knowledge.
  If that link does not work go through the library web site to get the authorization. To access this site go to the CSU library web page, and select "databases." Select the "S" option and then click on Science Citation Index.
• Although all well read graduate students should probably have a copy of this on their shelves, here is an on-line version of Darwin's, Origin of the Species