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Ecology : A Pocket Guide

by Callenbach, Ernest

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Revised

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9780520257191

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0520257197

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Pub. Date:

9/1/2008

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Univ of California Pr

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Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos,Ecology: A Pocket Guideforms a dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through. An accessible, informative guide to achieving ecoliteracy, it tells the story of the amazing interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental degradation. This new edition has been updated throughout and features five new essays on the topics of biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.

Author Biography

Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo (UC Press), and Ecotopia Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area

Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings)	p. ix
Introduction	p. xv
Air	p. 3
Algae	p. 8
Bacteria	p. 8
Biodiversity	p. 13
Bioregion	p. 15
Biosphere/Ecosphere	p. 18
Biotechnology	p. 18
Carbon	p. 20
Carrying Capacity	p. 23
Community	p. 25
Conservation	p. 27
Cycles	p. 29
Decomposition	p. 31
Deforestation/Desertification	p. 33
Ecology	p. 34
Ecosystem	p. 39
Energy	p. 41
Environment	p. 48
Environmental Justice	p. 49
Evolution	p. 51
Extinction	p. 55
Fire	p. 58
Food Webs	p. 61
Fungi	p. 63
Gaia	p. 66
Global Warming	p. 68
Growth	p. 76
Habitat	p. 78
Impacts	p. 80
Interdependence	p. 83
Kingdoms	p. 85
Land Use	p. 87
Microbes	p. 88
Migration	p. 90
Niche	p. 94
Nitrogen	p. 95
Organic	p. 98
Phosphorus	p. 99
Photosynthesis	p. 100
Pollution	p. 102
Population	p. 105
Predation	p. 107
Protists	p. 109
Quarantine	p. 110
Restoration	p. 112
Sex	p. 117
Smell	p. 121
Soil	p. 123
Species	p. 126
Succession	p. 127
Sulfur	p. 129
Sustainability	p. 130
Symbiosis	p. 132
Taxonomy	p. 134
Time	p. 135
Tourism	p. 137
Toxics	p. 138
Urban Ecology	p. 139
Values	p. 145
Viruses	p. 149
Water	p. 151
Wilderness/Wildness	p. 154
Xeriscape	p. 156
Yield	p. 157
Zoos	p. 159
A Postscript: The Power of Words	p. 163
Recommended Reading	p. 167
Acknowledgments	p. 169
Index	p. 171
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