Ecology : The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance
ISBN: 9780321507433 | 0321507436
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Benjamin Cummings
Pub. Date: 9/18/2008
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Charles Krebs' best-selling majors-level text approaches ecology as a series of problems that are best understood by evaluating empirical evidence through data analysis and application of quantitative reasoning. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style for students. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the new edition emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distrib... MORE
| What is Ecology? | |
| Introduction to the Science of Ecology | |
| Evolution and Ecology | |
| Behavioral Ecology | |
| Geographic Distributions | |
| Analyzing Geographic Distributions | |
| Factors That Limit Distributions I: Biotic | |
| Factors That Limit Distributions II: Abiotic | |
| Distribution and Abundance | |
| The Problem of Abundance: Pop... MORE | |
| Population Parameters and Demographic Techniques | |
| Population Growth | |
| Species Interactions I: Competition | |
| Species Interactions II: Predation | |
| Species Interactions III: Herbivory and Mutualism | |
| Species Interactions IV: Disease and Parasitism | |
| Regulation of Population Size | |
| Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations | |
| Applied Problems II: Pest Control | |
| Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology | |
| Distribution and Abundance at the Community Level | |
| Community Structure | |
| Community Dynamics I: Biodiversity | |
| Community Dynamics II: Predation and Competition | |
| Community Dynamics III: Nonequilibrium Communities | |
| Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production | |
| Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production | |
| Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles | |
| Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Climates | |
| Ecosystem Health: Human Impacts | |
| A Primer on Population Genetics | |
| Instantaneous and Finite Rates | |
| Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography | |
| Credits | |
| Species Index | |
| Subject Index | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Charles Krebs is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching ecology for 40 years, he works extensively on the population of rodents in Northern Canada, the United States, and Australia, trying to understand the mechanisms behind population fluctuations. He has published three ecology textbooks including Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance, Sixth Edition and Ecological Methodology, Second Edition both published by Benjamin Cummings.
