Ecology Evolution, Application, Integration

About this book

With a groundbreaking approach, Ecology: Evolution, Application, Integration, second edition, teaches students to place ecological problems in an evolutionary context. The text also helps students develop scientific reasoning skills by modelling the process of science that researchers use to address fundamental ecological questions.

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Ecology
Chapter 2. Adaptation and Evolution
Chapter 3. Adaptations to the Physical Environment
Chapter 4. Terrestrial Communities
Chapter 5. Freshwater and Marine Communities
Chapter 6. Behavioral Ecology
Chapter 7. The Ecology of Intraspecific Variation
Chapter 8. Demography
Chapter 9. Population Regulation
Chapter 10. Life History Strategies
Chapter 11. Competition
Chapter 12. Coevolution I: Exploitative Interactions
Chapter 13. Coevolution II: Mutualism
Chapter 14. The Structure of Communities
Chapter 15. Ecological Succession
Chapter 16. Species Diversity
Chapter 17. Energy Flow and Trophic Structure
Chapter 18. Biogeochemical Cycles
Chapter 19. Conservation Biology
Chapter 20. Landscape Ecology
Chapter 21. Human Global Ecology

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Biography

David T. Krohne is Professor Emeritus of Biology at Wabash College.