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Beeby & Brennan: First Ecology - Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3e

Chapter 08

The IPCC page gives the latest data and reports:
www.ipcc.ch/

Pew Center on Climate Change is an excellent and informed site, which is always up-to-date, and provides an accessible overview:
www.pewclimate.org/

The World Resources Institute offers a comprehensive and up-to-date summary on global climate change and data tables giving a country-by-country breakdown of emissions. The commentary in the tables provides qualifiers and sources of uncertainty associated with these data.
http://earthtrends.wri.org/index.cfm

The US EPA site provides a user-friendly and accessible summary of current data, especially as it relates to US emissions:
http://epa.gov/climatechange/index.html

This page of the UK Meteorological Office site offers a description of its global circulation model (including a slide set and downloadable images of the predictions from its last two models) and the associated datasets. There are links to several key documents and animations to illustrate its predictions:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/hadleycentre/index.html

The World Glacier Monitoring Service provides detailed records and mass balances from around the world: www.geo.unizh.ch/wgms/

The Biology Browser is a good general-purpose directory with directions to details on the major biomes and landscape ecology:
www.biologybrowser.org

An a ccessible account of the decline of the Aral Sea with some stunning photography is found at:
http://visearth.ucsd.edu/VisE_Int/aralsea/