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ISBN-13:  978-0470909133
Author: Begon, Howarth, Townsend
Essentials of Ecology presents introductory ecology in an accessible, state-of-the-art format designed to cultivate the novice student’s understanding of, and fascination with, the natural world. This new edition has been updated throughout, with new, full-color illustrations, and comes with an accompanying website with downloadable illustrations, multiple-choice questions, and interactive models.

Table of Content:

  1. Part 1: Introduction
  2. Chapter 1: Ecology and how to do it
  3. 1.1: What is ecology?
  4. 1.2: Scales, diversity of approaches, and rigor
  5. 1.3: Ecology in practice
  6. Summary
  7. Review questions
  8. Chapter 2: Ecology’s Evolutionary Backdrop
  9. 2.1: Evolution by natural selection
  10. 2.2: Evolution within species
  11. 2.3: The ecology of speciation
  12. 2.4: The effects of climatic change on the evolution and distribution of species
  13. 2.5: Continental drift, parallel and convergent evolution
  14. 2.6: Conclusion
  15. Summary
  16. Review Questions
  17. Part 2: Conditions and Resources
  18. Chapter 3: Physical conditions and the availability of resources
  19. 3.1: Environmental conditions
  20. 3.2: Resources for photosynthetic organisms
  21. 3.3: Heterotrophs and their resources
  22. 3.4: Effects of intraspecific competition for resources
  23. 3.5: Conditions, resources, and the ecological niche
  24. Summary
  25. Review questions
  26. Chapter 4: Climate and the world’s biomes
  27. 4.1: The world’s climate
  28. 4.2: Terrestrial biomes
  29. 4.3: Aquatic ecosystems on the continents
  30. 4.4: Ocean biomes
  31. Summary
  32. Review questions
  33. Part 3: Individuals and Populations
  34. Chapter 5: Birth, death, and movement
  35. 5.1: Populations, individuals, births and deaths
  36. 5.2: Life cycles
  37. 5.3: Monitoring birth and death: life tables and fecundity schedules
  38. 5.4: Dispersal and migration
  39. 5.5: The impact of intraspecific competition on populations
  40. 5.6: Life history patterns
  41. Summary
  42. Review Questions
  43. Chapter 6: Interspecific competition
  44. 6.1: Ecological effects of interspecific competition
  45. 6.2: Evolutionary effects of interspecific competition
  46. 6.3: Interspecific competition and community structure
  47. 6.4: How significant is interspecific competition in practice?
  48. Summary
  49. Review questions
  50. Chapter 7: Predation, grazing, and disease
  51. 7.1: What do we mean by predation?
  52. 7.2: Prey fitness and abundance
  53. 7.3: The subtleties of predation
  54. 7.4: Predator behavior: foraging and transmission
  55. 7.5: Population dynamics of predation
  56. 7.6: Predation and community structure
  57. Summary
  58. Review questions
  59. Chapter 8: Molecular and evolutionary ecology
  60. 8.1: Molecular Ecology: Differentiation within and between species
  61. 8.2: Coevolutionary arms races
  62. 8.3: Mutualistic interactions
  63. Summary
  64. Review questions
  65. Part 4: Communities and Ecosystems
  66. Chapter 9: From populations to communities
  67. 9.1: Multiple determinants of the dynamics of populations
  68. 9.2: Dispersal, patches, and metapopulation dynamics
  69. 9.3: Temporal patterns in community composition
  70. 9.4: Food webs
  71. Summary
  72. Review questions
  73. Chapter 10: Patterns in species richness
  74. 10.1: Quantifying species richness and diversity
  75. 10.2: Spatially varying factors influencing species richness
  76. 10.3: Temporally varying factors influencing species richness
  77. 10.4: Habitat area and remoteness: island biogeography
  78. 10.5: Gradients of species richness
  79. Summary
  80. Review questions
  81. Chapter 11: The flux of energy and matter through ecosystems
  82. 11.1: The role of energy in ecology
  83. 11.2: Geographic patterns in primary productivity
  84. 11.3: Factors limiting terrestrial primary productivity
  85. 11.4: Factors limiting aquatic primary productivity
  86. 11.5: The fate of primary productivity: grazing
  87. 11.6: The process of decomposition
  88. 11.7: The flux of matter through ecosystems
  89. 11.8: Nutrient budgets and cycling at the ecosystem scale
  90. Summary
  91. Review questions
  92. Part 5: Applied Issues in Ecology
  93. Chapter 12: Global biogeochemical cycles and their alteration by humans
  94. 12.1: What is biogeochemistry?
  95. 12.2: The global carbon dioxide cycle
  96. 12.3: The global methane cycle
  97. 12.4: The nitrogen cycle at global and regional scales
  98. Summary
  99. Review questions
  100. Chapter 13: Conservation ecology
  101. 13.1: The need for conservation
  102. 13.2: Small populations
  103. 13.3: Threats to biodiversity
  104. 13.4: Conservation in practice
  105. 13.5: Ecosystem services
  106. Summary
  107. Review questions
  108. Chapter 14: The ecology of human population growth, disease, and food supply
  109. 14.1: Human use of ecological resources
  110. 14.2: The human population problem
  111. 14.3: Ecology and human health
  112. 14.4: Synthetic fertilizer and the intensification of agriculture
  113. 14.5: Monocultures, pests, and pesticides in agriculture
  114. 14.6: Global land use and other constraints on continued intensification of agriculture
  115. 14.7: Food from fisheries and aquaculture
  116. Summary
  117. Review questions
  118. References
  119. Index
  120. End User License Agreement

 

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