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9780321068798

Ecology : The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance: Hands-on Field Package

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    9780321068798

  • ISBN10:

    0321068793

  • Edition: 6th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2009-01-01
  • Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
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Summary

This best-selling majors ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated with new examples and references, the book now features a new full-color design and is accompanied by an art CD-ROM for instructors. The field package also includesThe Ecology Action Guide , a guide that encourages readers to be environmentally responsible citizens, and a subscription toThe Ecology Place (www.ecologyplace.com), a web site and CD-ROM that enables users to become virtual field ecologists by performing experiments such as estimating the number of mice on an imaginary island or restoring prairie land in Iowa. For college instructors and students.

Table of Contents

PART 1 What Is Ecology? 1(30)
Introduction to the Science of Ecology
2(15)
Evolution and Ecology
17(14)
PART 2 The Problem of Distribution: Populations 31(84)
Methods for Analyzing Distributions
32(9)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Dispersal
41(16)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Habitat Selection
57(14)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Interrelations with Other Species
71(15)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Temperature, Moisture, and Other Physical-Chemical Factors
86(20)
The Relationship Between Distribution and Abundance
106(9)
PART 3 The Problem of Abundance: Populations 115(270)
Population Parameters
116(17)
Demographic Techniques: Vital Statistics
133(24)
Population Growth
157(22)
Species Interactions: Competition
179(27)
Species Interactions: Predation
206(29)
Species Interactions: Herbivory and Mutualism
235(23)
Species Interactions: Disease and Parasitism
258(22)
Population Regulation
280(25)
Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations
305(26)
Applied Problems II: Pest Control
331(24)
Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology
355(30)
PART 4 Distribution and Abundance at the Community Level 385(224)
The Nature of the Community
386(17)
Community Change
403(31)
Community Organization I: Biodiversity
434(25)
Community Organization II: Predation and Competition in Equilibrial Communities
459(26)
Community Organization III: Disturbance and Nonequilibrium Communities
485(28)
Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production
513(24)
Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production
537(23)
Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles
560(23)
Ecosystem Health: Human Impacts
583(26)
Epilogue 609(1)
Appendix I A Primer on Population Genetics 610(2)
Appendix II Estimation of the Size of the Marked Population in Capture-Recapture Studies 612(2)
Appendix III Instantaneous and Finite Rates 614(3)
Appendix IV Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity 617(2)
Glossary 619(4)
Bibliography 623(41)
Credits 664(9)
Species Index 673(7)
Subject Index 680

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