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Ecology : The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance: Hands-on Field Package

ISBN: 9780321068798 | 0321068793
Edition: 6th
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
This best-selling majors ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concep... MORE
PART 1 What Is Ecology?1(30)
Introduction to the Science of Ecology
2(15)
Evolution and Ecology
17(14)
P... MORE31(84)
Methods for Analyzing Distributions
32(9)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Dispersal
41(16)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Habitat Selection
57(14)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Interrelations with Other Species
71(15)
Factors That Limit Distributions: Temperature, Moisture, and Other Physical-Chemical Factors
86(20)
The Relationship Between Distribution and Abundance
106(9)
PART 3 The Problem of Abundance: Populations115(270)
Population Parameters
116(17)
Demographic Techniques: Vital Statistics
133(24)
Population Growth
157(22)
Species Interactions: Competition
179(27)
Species Interactions: Predation
206(29)
Species Interactions: Herbivory and Mutualism
235(23)
Species Interactions: Disease and Parasitism
258(22)
Population Regulation
280(25)
Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations
305(26)
Applied Problems II: Pest Control
331(24)
Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology
355(30)
PART 4 Distribution and Abundance at the Community Level385(224)
The Nature of the Community
386(17)
Community Change
403(31)
Community Organization I: Biodiversity
434(25)
Community Organization II: Predation and Competition in Equilibrial Communities
459(26)
Community Organization III: Disturbance and Nonequilibrium Communities
485(28)
Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production
513(24)
Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production
537(23)
Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles
560(23)
Ecosystem Health: Human Impacts
583(26)
Epilogue609(1)
Appendix I A Primer on Population Genetics610(2)
Appendix II Estimation of the Size of the Marked Population in Capture-Recapture Studies612(2)
Appendix III Instantaneous and Finite Rates614(3)
Appendix IV Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity617(2)
Glossary619(4)
Bibliography623(41)
Credits664(9)
Species Index673(7)
Subject Index680

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