Unfortunately we do not have a summary for this item at the moment

Introduction - what is ecology?. Part 1 Natural history: life on land; life in water. Part 2 Individuals: temperature relations; water relations; energy and nutrient relations. Part 3 Populations: distributing and abundance; population dynamics; population growth. Part 4 Interactons: competition; exploitation - predation, herbivory, parasitism and disease; mutualism. Part 5 Communities and ecosystems: species abundance and diversity; food webs; primary production and energy flow; nutrient cycling and retention; succession and stability. Part 6 Large scale ecology: landscape ecology; geographical ecology; global ecology.