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Ecology : Global insights & investigations

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2012.Description: xxi, 579 pages (various pagings) : color illustrations, color maps, photographs ; 28 cmDDC classification:
  • 577 STI-E
Contents:
An introduction to ecology -- Section one: Organismal ecology: Populations genetics ; Natural selection, speciation and extinction ; Behavioral ecology -- Section two: Physiological ecology: Temperature ; Water ; Nutrients -- Section three: Population ecology: Demographic techniques and population dispersion patterns ; Life tables ; Population growth -- Section four: Species interactions ; Competition and coexistence ; Facilitation ; Predation ; Herbivory ; Parasitism ; Population dynamics -- Section five: Community ecology: Species diversity ; Species richness patterns ; Species richness and community function ; Succession ; Island biogeography -- Section six: Biomes: Terrestrial biomes ; Marine biomes ; Freshwater biomes -- Section seven: Ecosystems ecology: Food webs and energy flow ; Biomass production ; Biogeochemical cycles.
Summary: Showing how ecology is important in understanding global change, this book teaches the basic principles of ecology and to relate these principles to many of the Earth's ecological problems.
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An introduction to ecology --
Section one: Organismal ecology: Populations genetics ; Natural selection, speciation and extinction ; Behavioral ecology --
Section two: Physiological ecology: Temperature ; Water ; Nutrients --
Section three: Population ecology: Demographic techniques and population dispersion patterns ; Life tables ; Population growth --
Section four: Species interactions ; Competition and coexistence ; Facilitation ; Predation ; Herbivory ; Parasitism ; Population dynamics --
Section five: Community ecology: Species diversity ; Species richness patterns ; Species richness and community function ; Succession ; Island biogeography --
Section six: Biomes: Terrestrial biomes ; Marine biomes ; Freshwater biomes --
Section seven: Ecosystems ecology: Food webs and energy flow ; Biomass production ; Biogeochemical cycles.

Showing how ecology is important in understanding global change, this book teaches the basic principles of ecology and to relate these principles to many of the Earth's ecological problems.

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