Skip to Main Content

Subject Guide: Biology & Environmental Science: Reference sources

Subject Index

Search Hiebert Library

Biology & environmental science reference sources

The following list includes some of the best reference sources available in Hiebert Library in biology and environmental science. You may also wish to read our guide on "Understanding Reference Sources" for more information on how to use such sources when writing a research paper.

Online Reference Sources

Blackwell's Concise Encyclopedia of Ecology

Concise Encyclopaedia of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Dictionary of Botany (English-Spanish, Spanish-English)

Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology

English-Spanish Dictionary of Plant Biology

Elsevier's Dictionary of Herpetological and Related Terminology

Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals

Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology

The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals

The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles

Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names : From Aalge to Zusii

History of Science in the United States

The Names of Plants

Print Reference Sources

The Biographical Dictionary of Scientists

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution