Research Guides: Native American Studies: Ecology & Environmental Sciences

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UC Library Search

Library of Congress subject headings are assigned to books, journals, videos and more in UC Library Search. Subject headings use a "controlled vocabulary," which allows us to group like things together and retrieve very focused results. Below are the results from sample searches using subject headings that address indigenous populations and ecology.

Ethnoecology
A subject search for books on Ethnoecology.
Indians of North America -- Ethnobotany
A subject search for books on Ethnobotany.
Indians of North America -- Water rights
A subject search for books on water rights.
Traditional ecological knowledge
A subject search for books on traditional ecological knowledge.

Discipline-specific Databases

Agricultural & Environmental Science Collection
This collection offers full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, and government publications.
BioOne Complete
Offers access to a large number of subscribed and open-access journal titles in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
BIOSIS Previews
Index to biology, life sciences, biomedical research and botany articles in journals, meetings, and books. Can search by keywords, scientific name, and taxonomic family. Includes references to articles cited and articles citing an article.

EcoEvoRxiv
A preprint server for Ecology, Evolution and Conservation hosted on the Open Science Framework.

Ecology Abstracts
Provides access to current ecology research across a wide range of disciplines. Focuses on how organisms of all kinds - microbes, plants and animals - interact with their environments and with other organisms. Included are relevant papers on evolutionary biology, economics and systems analysis as they relate to ecosystems or the environment.
Environment Abstracts
This database encompasses all aspects of the impact of people and technology on the environment and the effectiveness of remedial policies and technologies, featuring journals published in the U.S. and abroad. Also covers conference papers and proceedings, special reports from international agencies, non-governmental organizations, universities, associations and private corporations. Other materials indexed include monographs, government studies and newsletters.
Water Resources Abstracts
Provides summaries of the world's technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources. Abstracts are drawn from journals, books, conference proceedings and technical reports in the physical and life sciences, as well as from engineering, legal and government publications.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Scopus
An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Content covers research output in the fields of physical science, health science, life science, technology, medicine, and social sciences.
Web of Science (WoS)
Global citation database provides access to the Science Citation Index expanded from 1900 to the present, Social Sciences Citation Index from 1956 to the present, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index from 1975 to the present.

Web Resources

A guide to decolonize language in conservation
A basic resource for anyone who writes or talks about conservation, climate change and nature protection.
Calflora
A database of plant observations.
California EcoAtlas
The California EcoAtlas provides free public access to information about the quantity and quality of California wetlands. EcoAtlas enables integration of information to provide landscape context for consideration of wetland extent and condition.

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Interactive, detailed maps of aquatic resources extent (streams, wetlands, riparian areas, and special habitats such as eelgrass) are available as data layers. Existing aquatic resources based on California Aquatic Resource Inventory (CARI) are displayed as the default data layer on the interactive map.

EcoAtlas is a tracking tool for restoration project activity and provides detailed information and boundaries for restoration and mitigation projects across California.
California Natural Resources Agency
CNRA's initiative to strengthen partnerships with California Native American tribes.
California Wetlands Portal
The purpose of the Wetlands Portal is to provide the public information on the quantity and quality of California wetlands.
Data Basin
Data Basin is a science-based mapping and analysis platform that supports learning, research, and sustainable environmental stewardship. Created and maintained by the Conservation Biology Institute.
Guidelines for Considering Traditional Knowledges in Climate Change Initiatives
An informational resource for tribes, agencies, and organizations across the United States interested in understanding traditional knowledges—or TKs—in the context of climate change. Part of the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit.
Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples
An Indigenous-led, community-based organization located in the ancestral homelands of the Tongva People in Los Angeles. Its mission is to build the capacity of Native Nations and Indigenous Peoples throughout California, the United States, and around the world to protect sacred lands, waters, and cultures.
Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project (WRP)
Through the WRP partnership, public agencies, scientists, and local communities work cooperatively to acquire and restore wetlands in coastal Southern California. The WRP provides a structure that allows agencies to discuss project design and approach, and coordinate funding opportunities, for the most efficient and effective expenditure of resources. By cultivating resilient wetlands on a landscape scale, the WRP aims to enhance the economic, environmental and recreational benefits of wetlands in Southern California.
Wetlands Status and Trends
This U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service site provides critical information on recent and historical changes in wetland and deepwater habitat type and acreage. The historical database that the Service has developed through Status and Trends provides visual evidence of wetlands and deepwater extent, as well as land use, dating back to the 1950s. This provides an accurate record to guide the development of new U.S. aquatic resource policies, and determine the effectiveness of current policies and management strategies.

Governmental Agencies

Environmental Protection Agency
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Houses the National Native American Programs, an effort to combine wildlife biology, natural resource conservation, subsistence rights, treaty rights, cross-cultural communication, Indian law and federal policy to achieve conservation goals to benefit Indian Country and the public.

Global Programs

United Nations Evironment Programme
A leading global authority on the environment.
Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)
An independent intergovernmental body to strengthen the science-policy interface for biodiversity and ecosystem services for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity, long-term human well-being and sustainable development.
Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP)
Hosted by United Nations Climate Change, this is an open and inclusive space and brings together people and their knowledge systems to build a climate resilient world for all.