Ecology: A Global Insights and Investigations with Connect Plus Access Card

by Stiling, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780077471965
• ISBN10: 0077471962
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Package
• Copyright: 2011-03-07
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

Summary

Peter Stiling, co-author of Biologyby Brooker et al., has written a new first edition ecology text. The main goal in creating a new ecology text is to show how ecology is important in understanding global change. The book's main aim is to teach the basic principles of ecology and to relate these principles to many of the Earth's ecological problems.

Table of Contents

1 An Introduction to Ecology

Section One: Evolutionary Ecology

2 Populations Genetics

3 Natural Selection, Speciation and Extinction

4 Behavioral Ecology

Section Two: Physiological Ecology

5 Temperature

6 Water

7 Nutrients

Section Three: Population Ecology

8 Demographic Techniques and Population Dispersion Patterns

9 Life Tables

10 Population Growth

Section Four: Species Interactions

11 Competition and Coexistence

12 Facilitation

13 Predation

14 Herbivory

15 Parasitism

16 Population Dynamics

Section Five: Biodiversity

17 Species Diversity

18 Species Richness Patterns

19 Species Richness and Community Function

20 Succession

21 Island Biogeography

Section Six: Biomes

22 Terrestrial Biomes

23 Marine Biomes

24 Freshwater Biomes

Section Seven: Ecosystems Ecology

25 Food Webs and Energy Flow

26 Biomass Production

27 Nutrient Cycling