GULF OF GUINEA ISLANDS BIBLIOGRAPHY
California Academy of Sciences Library
http://www.425dxn.org/dc3mf/annobon.html
Geographic and general historic information about the island; includes map.
Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program (BBPP), a non-profit conservation organization working to protect wildlife on Bioko Island.
http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/archive/where_in_the_world/saotome_wrap.html
A team of scientists has returned from the African islands of São Tomé and Principé with a comprehensive animal survey which raises some intriguing evolutionary questions.
http://www.calacademy.org/science_now/sao_tome/
CAS Gulf of Guinea Islands Biodiversity Project. Join Academy scientists as they search for bats, snakes, lizards, frogs, insects, and spiders on the islands of São Tomé and Principé in Africa's Gulf of Guinea.
Gulf of Guinea Conservation Group
http://www.ggcg.st/bioko/Bioko_bkgrnd.htm
General background on Bioko. (Information written in Spanish, ask a Librarian about web translation services).
This website provides information about the biodiversity, and conservation, of the four Gulf of Guinea islands of Bioko, Príncipe, São Tomé and Annobón.
http://www.calacademy.org/research/guinea_islands/
CAS website detailing research on the Gulf of Guinea Islands; includes maps and photographs.
Photo Album of the Cameroon Line Volcanic Chain
http://www.gla.ac.uk/centres/surrc/personnel/barfodd/dbphotos/index.html
A photo album of the Cameroon line volcanic chain.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/tp.html
Map, geographical, economic, and political information and more.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Sao_Tome.html
Provides general information and links to other websites about the islands.
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/africa/wafrica.html
General information about the Cameroon line volcanic chain by Dr. Dan N. Barfod - Isotope Geosciences Unit, Scottish Universities Environmental Research Center.
http://travel.dk.com/wdr/ST/mST_Intr.htm
Sao Tome and Principe - Information including climate, geographical, social and political data.
Bayer, F.M., ed. R/V Pillsbury Deep-Sea Biological Expedition to the Gulf of Guinea 1964. Coral Gables, FL. University of Miami, Institute of Marine Science, 1964. Main QL135 .R8 1964.
British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Botany. Catalogue of the Vascular Plants of S. Tomé (with Principe and Annobon). London: Printed by order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1944. Bot QK393 .B75.
Castel-Branco, A. J. F. Entomofauna de S. Tomé: Insectos de Cacaueiro. Lisboa: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar, 1963. Ent SB608 .C17 C37 1963
Christy, Patrice and William V. Clarke. Guide des Oiseaux de São Tomé et Príncipe. São Tomé: ECOFAC, 1998. M&O QL692 .S3 C47 1998.
Nussbaum, Ronald A. and Michael E. Pfrender. Revision of the African Caecilian Genus Schistometopum Parker (Amphibia:Gymnophiona:Caeciliidae). Ann Arbor, MI: Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan, 1998. Mailliard QL1.M5 no.187 Serials
Oliveira Feijão, Raúl d'. Elucidário Fitológico: Plantas Vulgares de Portugal Continental, Insular e Ultramarino (Classificação, Nomes Vernáculos e Aplicações). [Lisboa]: Instituto Botânico de Lisboa, 1960-1963. Bot QK330 .O44 1960 v. 1-3.
Symposium
on African Amphibians (9th : University of Bristol: 1996). African Amphibians:
Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on African Amphibians. London, UK:
British Herpetological Society, [1998]. Herp QL662 .A1 S94 1996.
Materials with call numbers Pub, Pub Juv, Biodiv, and Biodiv Juv are available for loan to Academy members.
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2001 -- url updates June 2003