TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stiling, Peter
TI  - Ecology : : Global insights & investigations
U1  - 577 
CY  -  	New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2012.
N1  -  	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
N2  - 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
ER  -