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The bestselling textbook for undergraduate ecology courses,
Ecology is an easy-to-read and well-organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of the field. Bowman and Hacker motivate students with an engaging case study-driven, conceptual approach that highlights relevant applications and data-driven examples.
List of contents
- 1. The Web of Life
- Unit 1: Organisms and Their Environment
- 2. The Physical Environment
- 3. The Biosphere
- 4. Coping with Environmental Variation: Temperature and Water
- 5. Coping with Environmental Variation: Energy
- Unit 2: Evolutionary Ecology
- 6. Evolution and Ecology
- 7. Life History
- 8. Behavioral Ecology
- Unit 3: Populations
- 9. Population Distribution and Abundance
- 10. Population Dynamics
- 11. Population Growth and Regulation
- Unit 4: Species Interactions
- 12. Predation
- 13. Parasitism
- 14. Competition
- 15. Mutualism and Commensalism
- Unit 5: Communities
- 16. The Nature of Communities
- 17. Change in Communities
- 18. Biogeography
- 19. Species Diversity in Communities
- Unit 6: Ecosystems
- 20. Production
- 21. Energy Flow and Food Webs
- 22. Nutrient Supply and Cycling
- Unit 7: Applied and Large-Scale Ecology
- 23. Conservation Biology
- 24. Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Management
- 25. Global Ecology
- Appendix: Some Metric Measurements Used in Ecology
About the author
William D. Bowman is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Director of the Mountain Research Station at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Sally D. Hacker is Professor of Integrative Biology at Oregon State University, Corvallis.
Summary
The bestselling textbook for undergraduate ecology courses, Ecology is an easy-to-read and well-organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of the field. Bowman and Hacker motivate students with an engaging case study-driven, conceptual approach that highlights relevant applications and data-driven examples.
Additional text
Ecology presents material in a very effective way, while also bringing in lots of real world literature and captivating examples.
