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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Krebs, Charles J. Ecology. San Francisco, CA : Pearson Benjamin Cummings, ©2009 (OCoLC)741987303 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Charles J Krebs |
| ISBN: | 9780321507433 0321507436 0321604687 9780321604682 |
| OCLC Number: | 213835469 |
| Description: | xvi, 655 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm |
| Contents: | Part one: What is ecology? -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the science of ecology -- chapter 2. Evolution and ecology -- chapter 3. Behavioral ecology -- Part two: Geographic distributions -- chapter 4. Methods for analyzing geographic distributions -- Cchapter 5. Factors that limit distributions I: biotic -- chapter 6. Factors that limit distributions II: abiotic -- chapter 7. Distribution and abundance -- Part three: The problem of abundance: populations -- chapter 8. Population parameters and demographic techniques -- chapter 9. Population growth -- chapter 10. Species interaction: competition -- chapter 11. Speciesinteraction: predation -- chapter 12. Species interaction: herbivory and mutualism -- chapter 13. Species interaction: disease and parasitism -- chapter 14. Regulation of population size -- chapter 15. Applied problems I: harvesting populations -- chapter 16. Applied problems Ii: pest control -- chapter 17. Applied problems III: conservation biology -- Part four: Distribution and abundance at the community level -- chapter 18. Community structure in time: succession -- chapter 19. Community structure in space: biodiversity -- chapter 20. Community dynamics I: predation and competition in equilibrial communities -- chapter 21. Community Dynamics II: disturbance and nonequilibrium communities -- chapter 22. Ecosystem metabolism I: primary production -- chapter 23. Ecosystem metabolism II: secondary production -- chapter 24. Ecosystem Metabolism III: nutrient cycles -- chapter 25. Ecosystem dynamics under changing climates -- chapter 26. Ecosystem heath and human impacts. |
| Responsibility: | Charles J. Krebs. |
Abstract:
This majors-level text approaches ecology as a series of problems that are best understood by evaluating empirical evidence through data analysis and application of quantitative reasoning.
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