Ecology
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Ecology
Sinauer Associates, c2017
4th ed
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The new fourth edition of Ecology maintains its focus on providing an easy-to-read and well-organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of ecology.
This edition also continues with an increasing emphasis on enhancing student quantitative and problem-solving skills. A new Hone Your Problem-Solving Skills series has been added to the set of review questions at the end of each chapter. The questions expose students to hypothetical situations or existing data sets, and allow them to work through data analysis and interpretation to better understand ecological concepts.
New for this edition, additional Analyzing Data exercises have been added to the Companion Website. These exercises enable students to enhance their essential skills sets, such as performing calculations, making graphs, designing experiments, and interpreting results.
Recognizing the increasing evidence and effects of climate change on ecological systems, additional Climate Change Connections have been added. These vignettes help students appreciate the many consequences of global climate change on the distributions and functions of organisms as well as the ecosystems they depend on. Finally, the authors also revised and strengthened key pedagogical features of Ecology.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The Web of Life.- Chapter 2: The Physical Environment.- Chapter 3: The Biosphere.- Chapter 4: Coping with Environmental Variation: Temperature and Water.- Chapter 5: Coping with Environmental Variation: Energy.- Chapter 6: Evolution and Ecology.- Chapter 7: Life History.- Chapter 8: Behavioral Ecology.- Chapter 9: Population Distribution and Abundance.- Chapter 10: Population Growth and Regulation.- Chapter 11: Population Dynamics.- Chapter 12: Predation.- Chapter 13: Parasitism.- Chapter 14: Competition.- Chapter 15: Mutualism and Commensalism.- Chapter 16: The Nature of Communities.- Chapter 17: Change in Communities.- Chapter 18: Biogeography.- Chapter 19: Species Diversity in Communities.- Chapter 20: Production.- Chapter 21: Energy Flow and Food Webs.- Chapter 22: Nutrient Supply and Cycling.- Chapter 23: Conservation Biology.- Chapter 24: Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Management.- Chapter 25: Global Ecology
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