Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, evolution, distribution, identification and taxonomy. Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field, composed of many branches and sub disciplines.

[Professional Organizations by Discipline]

American Association for the Advancement of Science - http://www.aaas.org/

American Fisheries Society - http://www.fisheries.org/

American Institute of Biological Sciences - http://www.aibs.org/

American Museum of Natural History - http://www.amnh.org/

American Ornithologists' Union - http://www.aou.org/

American Phytopathological Society - http://www.apsnet.org/

American Public Gardens Association (APGA) - http://www.publicgardens.org/

American Society for Microbiology - http://www.asm.org/

American Society for Photobiology - http://www.photobiology.org/

American Society of Agronomy - http://www.agronomy.org/

American Society of Limnology & Oceanography - http://www.aslo.org/

American Society of Mammalogists - http://www.mammalsociety.org/

American Society of Naturalists - http://www.amnat.org/

American Society of Parasitologists - http://amsocparasit.org/

American Society of Plant Biologists - http://www.aspb.org/

American Society of Plant Taxonomists - http://www.aspt.net/

American Type Culture Collection - http://www.atcc.org/

Animal Behavior Society - http://animalbehaviorsociety.org/

Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation - http://www.tropicalbio.org/

Association of College & University Biology Educators - http://acube.org/

Association of Ecosystem Research Centers - http://www.ecosystemresearch.org/

Association of Southeastern Biologists - http://www.sebiologists.org/

Botanical Society of America - http://www.botany.org/

Cell Stress Society International - https://cellstressresponses.org/

Institute for Biology Education - http://biology.wisc.edu/

Cooper Ornithological Society - https://americanornithology.org/

Council of Science Editors - http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/

Ecological Society of America - https://www.esa.org/

Entomological Society of America - http://www.entsoc.org/

Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation - https://www.cerf.science/

International Society for Computational Biology - http://www.iscb.org/

International Society for Ecological Economics - http://www.isecoeco.org/

International Society for Ecological Modelling - http://www.isemna.org/

International Society of Protistologists - http://www.uga.edu/protozoa/

Mycological Society of America - http://www.msafungi.org/

National Association of Biology Teachers - http://www.nabt.org/

National Museum of Natural History - http://www.mnh.si.edu/

Natural Science Collections Alliance - http://www.nscalliance.org/

Nature Conservancy - http://www.nature.org/

New York Botanical Garden - http://www.nybg.org/

Society for Freshwater Science - http://www.freshwater-science.org/

Organization for Tropical Studies - http://www.tropicalstudies.org/

Organization of Biological Field Stations - http://www.obfs.org/

Phycological Society of America - http://www.psaalgae.org/

PLANTS Database - http://plants.usda.gov/

Poultry Science Association - http://www.poultryscience.org/

Radiation Research Society - http://www.radres.org/

Society for Conservation Biology - http://www.conbio.org/

Society for Ecological Restoration - http://www.ser.org/

Society for Economic Botany - http://www.econbot.org/

Society for In Vitro Biology - http://www.sivb.org/

Society for Industrial Microbiology - http://www.simbhq.org/

Society for Integrative & Comparative Biology - http://www.sicb.org/

Society for Mathematical Biology - http://www.smb.org/

Society for the Study of Evolution - https://www.evolutionsociety.org/

Society for Wetland Scientists - http://www.sws.org/

Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry - http://www.setac.org/

Society of Nematologists - http://www.nematologists.org/

Society of Systematic Biologists - http://www.systbiol.org/

Society of Toxicology - http://www.toxicology.org/

Soil Science Society of America - http://www.soils.org/

Species 2000 - http://www.sp2000.org/

Weed Science Society of America - http://www.wssa.net/

World Health Organization - http://www.who.int/ 

 

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