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Ecology and Field Biology / Robert Leo Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper & Row Publishers, c.1980.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xii, 835 p. : ill. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 0060463295
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 577 SMI
Holdings
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

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