Test Bank for Ecology in Action 1st Edition Singer
Test Bank for Ecology in Action, 1st Edition, Fred D. Singer, ISBN-10: 9781107115378, ISBN-13: 9781107115378
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Introduction and the Physical Environment:
1. What is ecology in action?
2. The physical environment
Part II. Evolutionary and Organismal Ecology:
3. Evolution and adaptation
4. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of acquiring nutrients and energy
5. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of temperature and water relations
6. Behavioral ecology
7. Bernd Heinrich – studying adaptation in the field and the laboratory
Part III. Population Ecology:
8. Life history evolution
9. Distribution and dispersal
10. Population abundance and growth
11. Conservation ecology
12. The chimpanzees of Gombe
Part IV. Community Ecology:
13. Interspecific competition
14. Predation and other exploitative interactions
15. Facilitation
16. Complex interactions and food webs
17. Biological diversity and community stability
18. Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs – community interactions and tropical restoration through biodiversity conservation
Part V. Ecosystem and Global Ecology:
19. Ecosystem structure and energy flow
20. Nutrient cycles: global, regional and local
21. Disturbance and succession
22. Geographic and landscape ecology
23. The carbon cycle and climate change ecology
24. Jane Lubchenco – from the marine intertidal to global service
25. Epilogue
Glossary
References
Figure and quotation credits
Index.
