Ecology : concepts and applications /
Manuel C. Molles, Jr.
- New York ; Boston ; New Delhi : Mc-Graw Hill 2008
- xviii, 642 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
CONTENT
Chapter 1 Introduction : what is ecology? Over view of ecology The ecology of forest birds: using field studies to test theory Ecosystem controls: Using large scale experiments to understand ecosystems Vegetation change: Information from pollen records and modeling Ecology in action
Section 1 NATURAL HISTORY AND EVOLUTION Chapter 2 Life on land 2.1 Large scale patrons of climatic vibration 2.2 Soils: the foundation of terrestrial biomes 2.2 Natural history and geography Individuals
Chapter 3 Life in water 3.1 The hydrologic cycle 3.2 The natural history of acquatic environments
Chapter 4 Evolution and speciation 4.1 Variation within populations 4.2 Hardy-weiberg equilibrium 4.3 Evolution 4.4 Speciation
Section II INDIVIDUALS Chapter 5 Temperature relations 5.1 Microclimates 5.2 Temperature and performance organisms 5.3 Regulating body temperature 5.4 Surviving extreme temperatures
Chapter 6 Water relations 6.1 Water availability 6.2 Water regulation on land 6.3 Water and salt balance in aquatic environments
Chapter 7 Energy and nutrient relations 7.1 Energy sources 7.2 Energy limitation 7.3 Optimal foraging theory
Chapter 9 Life histories and the Niche 9.1 Fundamentals and realized niches 9.2 Trade-offs 9.3 Life history classification
Section III POPULATION ECOLOGY Chapter 10 Distribution and abundance of populations and species 10.1 Distribution limits 10.2 Distribution patterns 10.3 Metapopulations 10.4 Organism size and population density 10.5 Commonnes and rarity
Chapter 11 Population dynamics 11.1 Patterns of survival 11.2 Age distribution 11.3 Sex rations 11.4 Rates of population changes 11.5 Dispersal
Chapter 12 Population growth 12.1 Geometric and exponential 12.2 Logistic population growth 12.3 Limits to population growth
Section IV INTERACTIONS
Chapter 13 Competition 13.1 Mathematical and laboratory models 13.2 Resource competition 13.3 Competition and niches
Chapter 14 Predation and herbivory 14.1 Widespread Interactions 14.2 Dynamics 14.3 Refuges 14.4 Mechanisms of defense
Chapter 15 Mutualism, parasitism, and disease 15.1 Complex interactions 15.2 Ecology of diseases 15.3 Mutualist-exploiter continuum 15.4 Evolution of mutalism
Section V COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS Chapter 16 Species abundance and diversity 16.1 Species abundance 16.2 Species diversity 16.3 Environmental complexity 16.4 Disturbance and diversity
Chapter 17 Species Interactions and community structure 17.1 Food webs 17.2 Competitive asymmetries 17.3 Keystones species Etc.
Chapter 18 Succession and stability 18.1 Community changes during succession 18.2 Ecoystem changes during succession 18.3 Mechanisms of succession Etc.
Chapter Primary production and energy flow 19.1 Patterns of terrestrial primary production 19.2 Patterns of aquatic primary production 19.3 Biotic influence Etc.
Chapter 20 Nutrients Cycling and retention 20.1 Rates of decompostion 20.2 Organisms and nutrients 20.3 Distriburbance and nutrients
Section VI LARGE SCALE ECOLOGY Chapter 21 Landscape Ecology 21.1 Landscape structure 21.2 Landscape process 21.3 Origins of landscape structure and change
Chapter 22 Geographical ecology 22.1 Area, Isolation and species richness 22.2 The equilibrium model of Island biogeography 22.3 Latitudinal gradients in species richness Etc.