Allaby, Michael. The concise Oxford dictionary of ecology. New York: Oxford University Press, 415pp. A useful source of definitions for ecological terms.
College Entrance Examination Board. 2001. Environmental science: course description (the "Acorn Book"). New York: College Entrance Examination Board/Advanced Placement Program, 45pp. The AP Environmental Science course is "designed for highly motivated students in secondary schools."
Groombridge, Brian, and Martin D. Jenkins. 2002. World atlas of biodiversity: Earth's living resources in the 21st century. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 340pp. An important source of information on global biodiversity, prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Centre. Outstanding maps and charts.
Hammerson, Geoffrey A. 2004. Connecticut Wildlife: Biodiversity, Natural History, and Conservation. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 465pp. The most significant recent contribution to the literature on Connecticut's natural history and ecology, written by a friend and colleague.
H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment. 2002. The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States. Washington, D.C.: Cambridge University Press, 270pp. Chapters deal with core national indicators of the condition and use of U.S. ecosystems, followed by analysis of coasts and oceans, farmlands, forests, fresh waters, grasslands and shrublands, urban and suburban lands.
Miller, G. Tyler, Jr. 2002. Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions (Twelfth Edition). Belmont, California: Brooks/Cole – Thomson Learning, 758pp+appendices. The text book used in my AP Environmental Science course. It is updated every two years.
Novacek, Michael J., ed. 2001. The biodiversity crisis: losing what counts. New York: American Museum of Natural History/The New Press, 224pp. Highly adaptable to pre-college science teaching.
Raven, Peter H., and Linda R. Berg. 2001. Environment (Third Edition). Fort Worth, Texas: Harcourt College Publishers, 612pp+appendices. Used as a supplemental text for the APES course. I consider this the best environmental science text available today.
Ricketts, Taylor H., Eric Dinerstein, David M. Olson, Colby J. Loucks, et al. 1999. Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment. Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 485pp. This publishing house is a leader in releasing timely books on the fields of ecology, environmental science, and conservation biology.
Smith, Robert Leo, and Thomas M. Smith. 1998. Elements of ecology (fourth edition). San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings/Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 567pp. The ecology text I have used in teaching graduate level ecology courses.
Stein, Bruce A., Lynn S. Kutner, and Jonathan S. Adams, eds. 2000. Precious heritage: the status of biodiversity in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 399pp. (A joint project of The Nature Conservancy & Association for Biodiversity Information.) An extremely important, well-illustrated review of biodiversity in the United States. One chapter provides the background material for one of this unit's sample lesson plans.
