Tropical ecology / D.E. Pomeroy, M.W. Service ; contributions from J.K.E. Egunjobi, N. Dickinson.

Contents;

1. Introduction
What is ecology?
The scales of approach to ecology
Guide to this book

2. The natural ecosystem
Climate
Soils
Vegetation

3. Communities and ecosystems
Introduction: the concept of ecosystem
Ecosystems
Productivity in African ecosystems
Communities

4. Aspects of plant ecology
Plant autecology
Plant populations
Plant Communities

5. Animals' environments
Animal distributions
Components of environment
The physical environment
etc.

6. Behavioural ecology
Behaviour towards other individuals of the same species
Communication
Feed strategies
Seasonality

7. Animal abundance
Introduction: populations and their parameters
Basic population processes
Some examples of real populations
etc.

8. The ecology
Origins of man
Components of man's environment
Human population increase
etc.

Includes bibliographies and index.