Dictionaries & Encyclopedias - Biological Sciences | Pūtaiao Koiora - Subject Guides at University of Canterbury

The Library collection contains both print and online dictionaries and encyclopedias relating to biology. These can be used for checking facts for definitions and for gathering background material. The following list is a selection of mostly online resources but many more can be found in the Library Catalogue or by talking to you Subject Librarians.

The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
ISBN: 9780521195317
By Michael Ruse (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013
Desk Encyclopedia of General Virology
ISBN: 9780123751621
By Marc H. V. van Regenmorte & Brian W. J. Mahy (Editors)
Publication Date: 2010
A Dictionary of Biology
ISBN: 9780198714378
By Elizabeth Martin & Robert Hine (Editors)
Publication Date: 2015
Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences
ISBN: 9780123948083
By Brian Thomas, Denis J. Murphy & Brian G. Murray (Editors)
Publication Date: 2017
Encyclopedia of Biodiversity
ISBN: 9780122268656
By Simon A. Levin (Editor)
Publication Date: 2004

Encyclopedia of Ecology
ISBN: 0444520333
By S. E. Jorgensen & Brian Fath (Editors)
Publication Date: 2008
Encyclopedia of Insects
ISBN: 9780123741448
By Vincent H. Resh, Ring T. Cardé (Editors)
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of Marine Mammals
ISBN: 9780080919935
By Bernd Würsig, William F. Perrin & J. G. M. Thewissen (Editors)
Publication Date: 2009
Encyclopedia of Microbiology
ISBN: 9780123739445
By Moselio Schaechter (Editors)
Publication Date: 2009
Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
ISBN: 0787653624
By Michael Hutchins
Publication Date: 2003
Call Number: QL 7 .G895 2003
Note: Only in available print