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Ecology and Field Biology / Robert Leo Smith.
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TextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row Publishers, c.1980.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 835 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN: - 0060463295
- 577 SMI
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 577 SMI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002000034984 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Both an introductory textbook covering the broad range of ecology and a manual on methodology. Provides a balanced overview of the various areas--population, evolutionary, and ecosystems ecology, theoretical and applied, plant and animal--and explores each area in some detail. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Includes bibliography and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- I Introduction
- 1 Ecology: Its Meaning and Scope
- 2 Experimentation and Models
- II The Organism and Its Environment
- 3 Adaptation
- 4 Climate
- 5 Water Balance
- 6 Thermal Balance
- 7 Light and Biological Cycles
- 8 Nutrients
- 9 Soils
- III The Ecosystem
- 10 Concept of the Ecosystem
- 11 Ecosystem Energetics
- 12 Biogeochemical Cycles
- IV Comparative Ecosystem Ecology
- 13 Grassland to Tundra
- 14 Forest
- 15 Freshwater Ecosystems
- 16 Saltwater Ecosystems
- V Population Ecology
- 17 Properties of Populations
- 18 18 Population Growth and Regulation
- 19 Intraspecific Competition
- 20 Life History Patterns
- 21 Population Genetics
- 22 Interspecific Competition
- 23 Predation
- 24 Plant-Herbivore Systems
- 25 Herbivore-Carnivore Systems
- 26 Parasitism
- 27 Mutualism
- VI The Community
- 28 Community Structure
- 29 Disturbance
- 30 Succession