Elsevier encyclopedias - valuable resources for undergrads

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Oxford Reference (all disciplines)

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Links to Elsevier encyclopedias - with examples of content :

Encyclopedia of ecology                              

·         Examples of chapters/searches:  search for  wastewatertreatment ; Climate Change : History and Current State

Encyclopedia of fish physiology                 

·         Examples of chapters/searches: search for stressand growth ; Temperature Preference: Behavioral Responses to Temperature in Fishes

Encyclopedia of microbiology                    

·         Examples of chapters/searches:  Cell Cycles and Division, Bacterial ; drinking water ; yeasts ; Development, Prokaryotic: Variety and Versatility

Encyclopedia of quaternary science          

·         Examples of chapters/searches:  search for fluvial environments ; search for glacial landforms ; search for coleoptera

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

·         Examples of chapters/searches:  urban geography ;  urban studies ; GIS

Treatise on estuarine and coastal science

·         Examples of chapters/searches:  search for estuarine ecology ; Ecosystem and Biotic Classifications of Estuaries and Coasts (A Whitfield) ;  Removals (Wild Harvesting) of the Biological Resources from Systems

Treatise on geomorphology

·         Examples of chapters/searches: search for landscape evolution ; Riparian Vegetation and the Fluvial Environment: A Biogeographic Perspective