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Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781605356181
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1605356181
• Author:  William D. Bowman, Sally D. Hacker, Michael L. Cain

The new fourth edition of Ecology maintains its focus on providing an easy to read and well organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of ecology. This edition also continues with an increasing emphasis on enhancing student quantitative and problem solving skills. A new Hone Your Problem Solving Skills series has been added to the set of review questions at the end of each chapter. The questions expose students to hypothetical situations or existing data sets, and allow them to work through data analysis and interpretation to better understand ecological concepts. New for this edition, additional Analyzing Data exercises have been added to the Companion Website. These exercises enable students to enhance their essential skills sets, such as performing calculations, making graphs, designing experiments, and interpreting results. Recognizing the increasing evidence and effects of climate change on ecological systems, additional Climate Change Connections have been added. These vignettes help students appreciate the many consequences of global climate change on the distributions and functions of organisms as well as the ecosystems they depend on. Finally, the authors also revised and strengthened key pedagogical features of Ecology.

Table contents:

Chapter 1. The Web of Life

UNIT 1. ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENT

Chapter 2. The Physical Environment

Chapter 3. The Biosphere

Chapter 4. Coping with Environmental Variation: Temperature and Water

Chapter 5. Coping with Environmental Variation: Energy

UNIT 2. EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Chapter 6. Evolution and Ecology

Chapter 7. Life History

Chapter 8. Behavioral Ecology

UNIT 3. POPULATIONS

Chapter 9. Population Distribution and Abundance

Chapter 10. Population Growth and Regulation

Chapter 11. Population Dynamics

UNIT 4. SPECIES INTERACTIONS

Chapter 12. Predation

Chapter 13. Parasitism

Chapter 14. Competition

Chapter 15. Mutualism and Commensalism

UNIT 5. COMMUNITIES

Chapter 16. The Nature of Communities

Chapter 17. Change in Communities

Chapter 18. Biogeography

Chapter 19. Species Diversity in Communities

UNIT 6. ECOSYSTEMS

Chapter 20. Production

Chapter 21. Energy Flow and Food Webs

Chapter 22. Nutrient Supply and Cycling

UNIT 7. APPLIED AND LARGE-SCALE ECOLOGY

Chapter 23. Conservation Biology

Chapter 24. Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem Management

Chapter 25. Global Ecology

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