This is a list of encyclopedias as well as encyclopedic and biographical dictionaries published on the subject of biology in any language.

Entries are in the English language unless specifically stated as otherwise.

General biology Becher, Anne, Joseph Richey. American environmental leaders: From colonial times to the present. Grey House, 2008. . Butcher, Russell D., Stephen E. Adair, Lynn A. Greenwalt. America's national wildlife refuges: A complete guide. Roberts Rinehart Publishers in cooperation with Ducks Unlimited, 2003. .

Ecological Internet, Inc. EcoEarth.info: Environment portal and search engine. Ecological Internet, Inc. .

Friday, Adrian & Davis S. Ingram. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Life Sciences. Cambridge, 1985. Gaither, Carl C., Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither, Andrew Slocombe. Naturally speaking: A dictionary of quotations on biology, botany, nature and zoology. Institute of Physics, 2001. . Gibson, Daniel, National Audubon Society. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Southwest: Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Goudie, Andrew, David J. Cuff. Encyclopedia of global change: Environmental change and human society. Oxford University Press, 2002. . Gove, Doris. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Southeast : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, U.S. Virgin Islands. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Grassy, John. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges: Northern Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin. St. Martin's Griffin, c2000. . Grassy, John. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges: Rocky Mountains: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Gray, Peter. Encyclopedia of the Biological Sciences. Krieger, 1981.Kister, 1994, p. 329-330. Grinstein, Louise S., Carol A. Biermann, Rose K. Rose. Women in the biological sciences: A biobibliographic sourcebook. Greenwood Press, 1997. . Hancock, John M., Marketa J. Zvelebil. Dictionary of bioinformatics and computational biology. Wiley-Liss, 2004. . Hosansky, David. The environment A to Z. CQ Press, 2001. . Laubach, René. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. New England : Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Mac Arthur, Loren, Debbie S. Miller. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Alaska and the Northwest: Alaska, Oregon, Washington. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Mac Arthur, Loren. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. California & Hawaii : California, Hawaii. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Marinelli, Janet, Stephen K.-M. Tim, Brooklyn Botanic Garden. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden gardener's desk reference. Henry Holt, 1998. . McAinish, T. F. Physics in Medicine & Biology Encyclopedia. Pergamon Press, 1986.

Munn, R. E. Encyclopedia of global environmental change. Wiley, 2002. . National Academy of Sciences. Biographical memoirs of the national academy of sciences. National Academy of Sciences. . Nature Publishing Group. Encyclopedia of life sciences. Nature Publishing Group, 2002. . Niergenberg, William Aaron, Edward O. Wilson, Peter H. Raven. Encyclopedia of environmental biology. Academic Press, 1995. . Nybakken, James Willard, William W. Broenkow, T. L. Vallier. Interdisciplinary encyclopedia of marine sciences. Grolier Academic Reference, 2003. . O'Daly, Anne. Encyclopedia of life sciences. Marshall Cavendish, 2004. . Palmer, William, National Audubon Society. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. South Central: Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. . Pilch, Richard F., Raymond A. Zilinskas. Encyclopedia of bioterrorism defense. Wiley-LISS, 2005. . Polunin, Nicholas, Lynn M. Curme. World who is who and does what in environment and conservation. St. Martin's Press; Foundation for Environmental Conservation, 1997. . Porter, Roy, Marilyn Bailey Ogilvie. The biographical dictionary of scientists. Oxford University Press, 2000. . Ricciuti, Edward R. Audubon guide to the national wildlife refuges. Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia. St. Martin's Griffin, 2000. .

Royal Society (Great Britain). Biographical memoirs of fellows of the royal society. Royal Society, 1955–. . Shearer, Benjamin F., Barbara Smith Shearer. Notable women in the life sciences: a biographical dictionary. Greenwood Press, 1996. . Sterling, Keir B. Biographical dictionary of American and Canadian naturalists and environmentalists. Greenwood Press, 1997. . U. S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. Science.gov. U. S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information, 2002-. . Wexler, Philip, Bruce D. Anderson, Ann de Peyster. Encyclopedia of toxicology. Elsevier Academic, 2005. .

Lifeforms Association for Biodiversity Information. NatureServe explorer: An online encyclopedia of life. NatureServe. . Beacham, Walton, Frank V. Castronova, Suzanne Sessine. Beacham's guide to the endangered species of North America. Gale Group, 2001. . Center for Applied Biodiversity Science. Biodiversity hotspots. Conservation International. . Field Museum of Natural History. The encyclopedia of life: EOL. Encyclopedia of Life, 2007-. . Henry, Helen L., Anthony W. Norman. Encyclopedia of hormones. Academic Press, 2003. . IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group. Global invasive species database. IUCN Invasive Species Specialist Group. 2000-. . Levin, Simon A. Encyclopedia of biodiversity. Academic Press, 2001. . Pagel, Mark D. Encyclopedia of evolution. Oxford University Press, 2002. . . Polistes Foundation. Discover life. Polistes Corporation, 1999-. . Tree of Life Web Project. Tree of life. University of Arizona. . World Wildlife Fund. World wildlife fund. World Wildlife Fund. .

Animals Audubon Society Encyclopedia of Animal Life. Clarkson N. Potter, 1982.Kister, 1994, p. 333. Bekoff, Marc, Jane Goodall. Encyclopedia of animal behavior. Greenwood Press, 2004. . Bruce, Jenni. The encyclopedia of animals: A complete visual guide. University of California Press, 2004. . Burton, Maurice, Robert Burton. International wildlife encyclopedia. Marshall Cavendish, 2002. . Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior. Facts on File, 1987. Encyclopedia of Animal Biology. Facts on File, 1987. Encyclopedia of Animal Ecology. Facts on File, 1987. Encyclopedia of Animal Evolution. Facts on File, 1987. Grzimek, Bernhard. Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Van Nostrand, 1972–1975.Kister, 1994, p. 332-333. Grzimek's Encyclopedia of Ethology. Van Nostrand, 1972–1977.Kister, 1994, p. 334. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Wildlife. Grey Castle Press, 1991. Knobil, Ernst and Jimmy D. Neill. Encyclopedia of reproduction. Academic Press, 1998. . Macmillan Illustrated Animal Encyclopedia. Macmillan, 1984. Marshall Cavendish International Wildlife Encyclopedia. Marshall Cavendish, 1990. Nowak, Ronald M., David W. Macdonald, Roland W. Kays. Walker's carnivores of the world. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. . The Oxford Companion to Animal Behaviour. Oxford, 1987.Kister, 1994, p. 333-334. World Nature Encyclopedia. Raintree/Steck-Vaughn, 1989.

Aquatic Banister, Keith & Andrew Campbell. The Encyclopedia of Aquatic Life. Facts on File, 1985. Dakin, Nick. Macmillan Book of the Marine Aquarium. Macmillan, 1993.Kister, 1994, p. 329. The Encyclopedia of Marine Invertebrates. T. F. H. Publications, 1983. Folkens, Pieter A., Randall R. Reeves, National Audubon Society. Guide to marine mammals of the world. A. A. Knopf, 2002. . George, David and Jennifer. Marine Life: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Invertebrates in the Sea. Wiley, 1979. Halstead, Bruce. Dangerous Aquatic Animals of the World: A Color Atlas. Darwin Press, 1992. Sterba, Gunther. The Aquarium Encyclopedia. MIT Press, 1983. Stickney, Robert R. Encyclopedia of aquaculture. Wiley, 2000. .

Fishes Dr. Axelrod's Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes. T. F. H. Publications, 6th ed., 1991. Dr. Burgess's Mini-Atlas of Freshwater Aquarium Fishes. T. F. H. Publications, 1991. Eschmeyer, William N., Earl Stanndard Herald, Howard Hammann. A field guide to Pacific Coast fishes of North America: From the Gulf of Alaska to Baja, California. Houghton Mifflin, 1983. . Froese, R., D. Pauly International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management. FishBase: A global information system on fishes. FishBase, [2000?]-. . Gilbert, Carter Rowell, James D. Williams, National Audubon Society. National Audubon Society field guide to fishes. Alfred A. Knopf, 2002. . Goldstein, Robert J., Rodney W. Harper, Richard Edwards. American aquarium fishes. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. . Page, Lawrence M., Brooks M. Burr, Eugene C. Beckham III, National Audubon Society. A field guide to freshwater fishes: North America north of Mexico. Houghton Mifflin, 1991. . Paxton, John R., William N. Eschmeyer, David Kirshner. Encyclopedia of fishes. Academic Press, 1998. .

Arthropods

Insects Audubon Society Book of Insects. Abrams, 1983.Kister, 1994, p. 332. Capinera, John L. Encyclopedia of entomology. Kluwer Academic, 2004. . Johnson, Warren T., Howard H. Lyon, C. S. Koehler. Insects that feed on trees and shrubs. Comstock Publishing Associates, 1991. . Marshall, S. A. Insects: Their natural history and diversity; With a photographic guide to insects of eastern North America. Firefly Books, 2006. . Milne, Lorus Johnson, Margery Joan Greene Milne, Susan Rayfield. The Audubon Society field guide to North American insects and spiders. Knopf, 1980. . O'Toole, Christopher. The Encyclopedia of Insects. Facts on File, 1986.Kister, 1994, p. 331-332. Pyle, Robert Michael, Carol Nehring, Jane Opper, National Audubon Society. The Audubon Society field guide to North American butterflies. Knopf, 1981. . Resh, Vincent H., Ring T. Cardé. Encyclopedia of insects. Academic Press, 2003. . Solomon, J. D., U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service. Guide to insect borers in North American broadleaf trees and shrubs. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, 1995.

Birds Alderfer, Jonathan K., National Geographic Society (U. S.). National Geographic complete birds of North America. National Geographic, 2006. . American Ornithologists' Union, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Cornell University. The birds of North America. American Ornithologists' Union, 1992–2002. . Cambridge Encyclopedia of Ornithology. Cambridge, 1991. Campbell, Bruce and Elizabeth Lack. Dictionary of Birds. Buteo, rev. ed., 1985. Clark, William S., Brian K. Wheeler. A field guide to hawks of North America. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. . Cornell University. All about birds. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. . del Hoyo, Josep, Andrew Elliott, Jordi Sargatal. Handbook of the birds of the world. Lynx Edicions, 1992–2006. . Dunn, Jon, Jonathan K. Alderfer, National Geographic Society (U.S.). National Geographic field guide to the birds of North America. National Geographic, 2006. . Ferguson-Lees, David A. Christie, Kim Franklin. Raptors of the world. Houghton Mifflin, 2001. . Fuller, Errol. Extinct birds. Comstock, 2001. . Montagu, George (1802). Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds, London: J. White.

Perrins, Christopher. Illustrated Encyclopedia of Birds. Prentice Hall, 1991. Perrins, Christopher and Alex Middleton. Encyclopedia of Birds. Facts on File, 1985. Robbins, Chandler S., Bertel Bruun, Herbert Spencer Zim. Birds of North America: A guide to field identification. St. Martin's Press, 2001. . Sibley, David. The Sibley field guide to birds of eastern North America. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. . Sibley, David. The Sibley field guide to birds of western North America. Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. .