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Web of Science: Core Collection (Clarivate Analytics)

Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage to 1900. Content covers over 12,000 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access journals and over 150,000 conference proceedings.

CAB Abstracts (CAB Direct)

Covers the significant research and development literature in the applied life sciences, including agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, veterinary medicine and the environment. Coverage dates back to 1913.

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)

This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,500 journals, including full text from 1975-present for more than 3,700 peer-reviewed titles.

Global Rangelands

Provides links to more than 12,000 journal articles, websites, images, databases, videos, maps, reports, and decision making/educational tools about rangelands and rangeland management. 

Ecology Abstracts (ProQuest)

A database that focuses on how organisms of all kinds interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.

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Professional Organizations

Society for Range Management
Site for the society including information, publications, and links.

Government Information

Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
USDA agency involved with the conservation, improvement, and sustainability of U.S. natural resources and environment. Programs include the national soil survey, and various wetlands, water quality, forest , resource and grazing land conservation.

Rangelands and Natural Resources Management

Wrangle: Explore Rangelands
This website is designed for those interested in or curious about the diverse lands and cultures of rangelands to go on a virtual adventure in search of the connections that bring these landscapes together.
Global Rangelands

Provides links to more than 12,000 journal articles, websites, images, databases, videos, maps, reports, and decision making/educational tools about rangelands and rangeland management. 

Rangelands West
Provides an extensive searchable database of information, resources, and tools for range management of western rangelands. Produced by the Western Rangelands Partnership consortia.
Aldo Leopold Archives
The written works of one of the most forward-thinking conservationists of the 20th century. Searchable by title, author, and illustration. Provided by University of Wisconsin.
Web Soil Survey (U.S. Government - Natural Resources Conservation Service)
WSS provides soil data and information produced by the National Cooperative Soil Survey. It provides access to the largest natural resource information system in the world. NRCS has soil maps and data available online for more than 95 percent of the nation’s counties and anticipates having 100 percent in the near future. The site is updated and maintained online as the single authoritative source of soil survey information.
Forest Protection Portal
News, information retrieval tools, and original analysis. Purpose:"to end deforestation, preserve primary and old-growth forests, ..sustainable manage forests…"

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Rangelands

  • Grasslands / Prairies     QH87.7 and S621.5.G73 and S621.5.P73
    • ​Fires     SD421.5
  • Range Plants - Fertilizers     S667.R35
  • Rangeland Ecology     QH541.5.R3
  • Rangelands / Range Management / Grazing     SF84.82 - SF85.6
    • Fire Management / Prescribed Burning   SF85.6.F57
    • Remote Sensing     SF85.6.R45
    • Reseeding / Revegetation   SF85.6.R49​
    • Water Supply     SF85.6.W38
  • Savannas / Steppes     ​QH541.5.P7
  • Shrublands     QH541.5.S55
  • Wetlands
    • in agriculture     S604.4
    • biogeography of     QH87.3
    • physical geography     GB621 - GB628.995

Botany

  • General Botany     QK1 - QK474.5
  • Plant Ecology     QK900 - QK989
  • Plant Physiology     QK710 - QK899

Soil Science

  • Soil Conservation and Protection     S622 - S627
  • Soil Science / Soils     S590 - S599.9
Last updated: 2/14/2017