Essentials of Ecology (with CengageNOW, InfoTrac 1-Semester Printed Access Card)

by Miller, G. Tyler

• ISBN13: 9780495125440
• ISBN10: 049512544X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-09-21
• Publisher: Brooks Cole

Summary

G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line--enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students will actually want to read their assignments. The ideal alternative to ecology texts that tend to be too difficult for non-majors, this succinct 13-chapter, full-color textbook covers scientific principles and concepts, ecosystems, evolution, biodiversity, population ecology, and more. New to this edition for instructors is PowerLecture, a one-stop shop for lecture prep that includes everything you need to create dynamic lectures all in one place.

Table of Contents

Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability

Environmental History: Learning From the Past

Science, Systems, Matter, and Energy

Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?

Evolution and Biodiversity

Climate and Terrestrial Biodiversity

Aquatic Biodiversity

Community Ecology

Population Ecology

Applying Population Ecology: The Human Population

Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: Managing and Protecting Ecosystems

Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach

Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity

Glossary

Index

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