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Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations Peter Stiling

Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations By Peter Stiling

Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations by Peter Stiling


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Showing how ecology is important in understanding global change, this book teaches the basic principles of ecology and to relate these principles to many of the Earth's ecological problems.

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Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations by Peter Stiling

Peter Stiling, co-author of Biology by Brooker et al., has written a new first edition ecology text. The main goal in creating a new ecology text is to show how ecology is important in understanding global change. The book's main aim is to teach the basic principles of ecology and to relate these principles to many of the Earth's ecological problems.

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About Peter Stiling

Peter Stiling is a professor of biology at the University of South Florida at Tampa. He has taught classes in ecology, environmental science, and community ecology, and in 1995 he received a teaching award in recognition of classroom excellence in these areas. Dr. Stiling obtained his Ph.D. from University College, Cardiff, Wales, and completed postdoctoral research at Florida State University.

Table of Contents

1 An Introduction to EcologySection One: Evolutionary Ecology2 Populations Genetics3 Natural Selection, Speciation and Extinction4 Behavioral EcologySection Two: Physiological Ecology5 Temperature6 Water7 NutrientsSection Three: Population Ecology8 Demographic Techniques and Population Dispersion Patterns9 Life Tables10 Population GrowthSection Four: Species Interactions11 Competition and Coexistence12 Facilitation13 Predation14 Herbivory15 Parasitism16 Population DynamicsSection Five: Biodiversity17 Species Diversity18 Species Richness Patterns19 Species Richness and Community Function20 Succession21 Island BiogeographySection Six: Biomes22 Terrestrial Biomes23 Marine Biomes24 Freshwater BiomesSection Seven: Ecosystems Ecology25 Food Webs and Energy Flow26 Biomass Production27 Nutrient Cycling

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CIN0073532479G
9780073532479
0073532479
Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations by Peter Stiling
Used - Good
Paperback
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
20110216
656
N/A
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