Essentials of Ecology
5th Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. August 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
384 pages
978-0-538-73427-1 (ISBN)
Description
G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new coauthor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line - enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students will actually want to read their assignments. The ideal alternative to ecology texts that tend to be too difficult for non-majors, this succinct 11-chapter, full-color textbook covers scientific principles and concepts, ecosystems, evolution, biodiversity, population ecology, and more.
More details
Edition
5th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations, maps
Dimensions
Height: 274 mm
Width: 228 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
840 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-538-73427-1 (9780538734271)
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Content
Humans and Sustainability: An Overview. 1. Environmental Problems, Their Causes, and Sustainability. Science, Ecological Principles, and Sustainability. 2. Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems. 3. Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work? 4. Biodiversity and Evolution. 5. Biodiversity, Species Interactions, and Population Control. 6. The Human Population and Its Impact. 7. Climate and Terrestrial Biodiversity. 8. Aquatic Biodiversity. Sustaining Biodiversity 9. Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species Approach. 10. Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity: The Ecosystem Approach. 11. Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity. SUPPLEMENTS. 1. Measurement Units, Precision, and Accuracy. 2. Reading Graphs and Maps. 3. Economic, Population, Hunger, Health, and Waste Production Data and Maps. 4. Biodiversity, Ecological Footprints, and Environmental Performance Maps. 5. Environmental History. 6. Some Basic Chemistry. 7. Classifying and Naming Species. 8. Weather Basics: El Nino, Tornadoes, and Tropical Cyclones. 9. Components and Interactions in Major Biomes. 10. Chapter Projects.