Title Statements
- Full title :Ecology in action / Fred D. Singer, Radford University, Virginia.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 v. (XIII-706 p.) : : illustrations en coul. ; : 29 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781107115378, 110711537X
- oclc:ocn954124682
- LC Classification:QH541.2
- Dewey Decimal:577
Table of Contents
Part I. introduction and the physical environment -- 1. What is ecology in action? -- 2. The physical environment -- Part II. Evolutionary and organismal ecology -- 3. Evolution and adaptation -- 4. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of acquiring nutrients and energy -- 5. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of temperature and water relations -- 6. Behavioral ecology -- 7. Bernd Heinrich -- studying adaptation in the field and the laboratory -- Part III. Population ecology -- 8. Life history evolution -- 9. Distribution and dispersal -- 10. Population abundance and growth -- 11. Conservation ecology -- 12. The chimpanzees of Gombe -- Part IV. Community ecology -- 13. Interspecific competition -- 14. Predation and other exploitative interactions -- 15. Facilitation -- 16. Complex interactions and food webs -- 17. Biological diversity and community stability -- 18. Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs -- community interactions and tropical restoration through biodiversity conservation -- Part V. ecosystem and global ecology -- 19. Ecosystem structure and energy flow -- 20. Nutrient cycles: global, regional and local -- 21. Disturbance and succession -- 22. Geographic and landscape…
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