GEOG 303. Human Ecology
	Resources

• GLOSSARY

  Pleistocene megafauna: This is part of an excellent on-line exhibit produced by the Illinois State Museum on midwestern US at 16,000 BP. You will find illustrations and text on large mammals, but can explore other aspects of the Pleistocene also.

• Supplements to lecture materials regarding domestication:
  • Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry
  • Nikolai Vavilov biography.
  • Agriculture and Biodiversity: World Resources Institute pages
  • Evolution of Crops Plants: a course at the University of California at Davis. Note especially "Crop of the Day" entries.
  • Breeds of Livestock: an excellent site developed by the Department of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University. Contains photographs, histories and other information on cattle, goat, horse, sheep, and swine breeds throughout the world.
  • Poultry Breeds another site being developed by the Department of Animal Science at Oklahoma State University. Contains information on chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys.
  • American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
  • IPGRI (International Plant Genetics Resources Institute)
  • Seed Banks
  • New Crop Resource Online Program
  • Southern Exposure Seed Exchange: A group here in Virginia

  Exotic species

• America's least wanted
• Global Invasive Species Program
•  Invasive Plant Species of Virginia
• Invasive and Exotic Species of North America
• Invasive Species Network, US
• The Nature Conservancy's Wildland Invasive Species Team
• What's Wrong with Exotic and Alien Species and Altered Genes. Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy

          Genetically engineered organisms: a sampling of sites and viewpoints

• About Recombinant DNA
• Student-authored papers on genetically modified food crops, from various perspectives
• European campaign against genetically modified foods
• Transgenic plants and world agriculture, a multinational report
• Canadian Plant Safety Office--contains useful glossary
• Kentucky American Seeds, Inc.--a company perspective

    Scenarios for the future

•     Global Methodology for Mapping Human Impacts on the Environment (GLOBIO)

    Miscellaneous

  National Image Library: photos of plants, wildlife, landscapes and habitats from US Fish & Wildlife Service