Essentials of ecology
Material type: TextPublication details: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Science, c2000Description: xvii, 552 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmISBN: 9780632043484; 0632043482Subject(s): EcologyDDC classification: 574.5Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Included Index
Introduction --
Ecology and how to do it --
Introduction --
Scales, diversity and rigor --
Ecology in practice --
Ecology's evolutionary backdrop --
Introduction --
Evolution by natural selection --
Evolution within species --
The ecology of speciation --
Effects of climatic change on the evolution and distribution of species --
Effects of continental drift on the ecology of evolution --
Interpreting the results of evolution: convergents and parallels --
Conditions and Resources --
Physical conditions and the availability of resources --
Introduction --
Environmental conditions --
Plant resources --
Animals and their resources --
Effects of intraspecific competition for resources --
Conditions, resources and the ecological niche --
Conditions, resources and the world's communities --
Introduction --
Geographic patterns at large and small scales --
Temporal patterns in conditions and resources --
Terrestrial biomes --
Aquatic environments --
Individuals, Populations, Communities and Ecosystems --
Birth, death and movement --
Introduction --
Life cycles --
Monitoring birth and death: life tables and fecundity schedules --
Dispersal and migration --
The impact of intraspecific competition on populations --
Life history patterns --
Interspecific competition --
Introduction --
Ecological effects of interspecific competition --
Evolutionary effects of interspecific competition --
Interspecific competition and community structure --
How significant is interspecific competition in practice --
Introduction --
Prey fitness and abundance --
The subtleties of predation --
Predator behavior: foraging and transmission --
Population dynamics of predation --
Predation and community structure --
Evolutionary ecology --
Introduction --
Molecular ecology: differentiation within and between species --
Coevolutionary arms races --
Mutualistic interactions --
From populations to communities --
Introduction --
Multiple determinants of the dynamics of populations --
Dispersal, patches and metapopulation dynamics --
Temporal patterns in community composition --
Food webs --
Patterns in species richness --
Introduction --
A simple model of species richness --
Spatially varying factors that influence species richness --
Temporally varying factors that influence species richness --
Gradients of species richness --
Patterns in taxon richness in the fossil record --
Appraisal of patterns in species richness --
The flux of energy and matter through ecosystems --
Introduction --
Primary productivity --
The fate of primary productivity --
The process of decomposition --
The flux of matter through ecosystems --
Global biogeochemical cycles --
Applied Issues in Ecology --
Sustainability --
Introduction --
The human population 'problem' --
Harvesting living resources from the wild --
The farming of monocultures --
Pest control --
Integrated farming systems --
Forecasting agriculturally driven global environmental change --
Habitat degradation --
Introduction --
Degradation via cultivation --
Power generation and its diverse effects --
Degradation in urban and industrial landscapes --
Maintenance and restoration of ecosystem services --
Conservation --
Introduction --
Threats to biodiversity --
Conservation in practice --
Conservation in a changing world --
Finale.
Presenting a balanced overview of ecology, with examples drawn from terrestrial and aquatic environments and from a variety of organism types, this work outlines the major tenets of ecology in a concise and simplified manner
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