Ecology in Action

Ecology in Action

Singer, Fred D.

Cambridge University Press

07/2024

643

Mole

9781108927222

15 a 20 dias

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Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction and the Physical Environment: 1. What is ecology in action?; 2. The physical environment; 3. The carbon cycle and climate change; Part II. Evolutionary and Organismal Ecology: 4. Evolution and adaptation; 5. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of acquiring nutrients and energy; 6. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of temperature and water relations; 7. Behavioral ecology; Online case study 1. Bernd Heinrich: studying adaptation in the field and the laboratory; Part III. Population Ecology: 8. Life history evolution; 9. Population distribution and dispersal movement; 10. Population abundance and growth; 11. Conservation ecology; Online case study 2. Jane Goodall and Anne Pusey: researching the chimpanzees of Gombe; Part IV. Community Ecology: 12. Interspecific competition; 13. Predation and other exploitative interactions; 14. Facilitation; 15. Complex interactions and food webs; 16. Biological diversity and community stability; Online case study 3. Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs: community interactions and tropical restoration through biodiversity conservation; Part V. Ecosystem and Global Ecology: 17. Ecosystem structure and energy flow; 18. Nutrient cycles: global, regional and local; 19. Disturbance and succession; 20. Geographic and landscape ecology; 21. Climate change ecology; Online case study 4. Jane Lubchenco: community, ecosystem and global ecology; Glossary; Credits; References; Index.
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