Ecology of a Changed World

Ecology of a Changed World outlines the importance of species conservation relative to human existence. Paired wiwth a useful companion website with engaging practical applications, the book breaks down ecological principles and explains six threats to biodiversity in terms anyone studying ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, or environmental justice will understand.

List of contents

• Chapter 1: The Changed World


• Chapter 2: Population Growth


• Chapter 3: Population Regulation


• Chapter 4: Interactions between Species: Competition


• Chapter 5: Predation and Food Webs


• Chapter 6: Parasites and Pathogens


• Chapter 7: Evolution and Disease


• Chapter 8: The Human Food Supply: Competition, Predation, and Parasitism


• Chapter 9: Food Security


• Chapter 10: Prediction


• Chapter 11: Human Population Growth


• Chapter 12: Growth of Wealth and Urbanization


• Chapter 13: Habitat Conversion


• Chapter 14: Economics of Habitat Conversion


• Chapter 15: Climate Crisis: History


• Chapter 16: Predictions of Future Climate and Its Effects


• Chapter 17: Pollution


• Chapter 18: Invasive Species


• Chapter 19: Introduced Disease


• Chapter 20: Harvesting on Land


• Chapter 21: Harvesting in the Ocean


• Chapter 22: Harvesting: Prospects


• Chapter 23: Species


• Chapter 24: Population Declines


• Chapter 25: Extinction


• Chapter 26: Species across Space


• Chapter 27: Island Biogeography and Reserve Design


• Chapter 28: Value of Species


• Appendix A: Estimation and Uncertainty


• Appendix B: Derivations


• References


• Index

About the author

Trevor Price is Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He earned a PhD in ecology from the University of Michigan and spent seventeen years on the faculty at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Speciation in Birds (2007).

Summary

Ecology of a Changed World outlines the importance of species conservation relative to human existence. Paired wiwth a useful companion website with engaging practical applications, the book breaks down ecological principles and explains six threats to biodiversity in terms anyone studying ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental science, or environmental justice will understand.

Additional text

This book offers a treatise on ecology, focusing particularly on biodiversity...Recommended. All readers.

Product details

• Authors: Trevor Price, Trevor (Professor of Ecology and Evolution Price, Price Trevor
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780197564172
• ISBN: 978-0-19-756417-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Conservation of wildlife & habitats, Pollution & threats to the environment, Life sciences: general issues, Environmental policy & protocols, Pollution and threats to the environment, Conservation of wildlife and habitats, Environmental policy and protocols