The Ecology Book

ECOLOGY THE BOOK BIG IDEAS SIM PLY EXPLAINED ECOLOGY WE ARE LIVING ON THIS PLANET AS THOUGH WE HAD ANOTHER ONE TO GO TO THINK GL ...

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DK US/LONDON SENIOR EDITORS Helen Fewster, Camilla Hallinan SENIOR ART EDITOR Duncan Turner AMERICANIZER Jill Hamilton ILLUSTRAT ...

CONTRIBUTORS JULIA SCHROEDER, CONSULTANT Julia Schroeder received her Ph.D. in Animal Ecology from the University of Groningen i ...

12 INTRODUCTION THE STORY OF EVOLUTION 20 Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for nature Early theories of evolution 22 ...

114 Birds lay the number of eggs that produce the optimum number of offspring Clutch control 116 The bond with a true dog is as ...

156 Species maintain the functioning and stability of ecosystems Biodiversity and ecosystem function ORGANISMS IN A CHANGING ENV ...

218 65 million years ago something killed half of all the life on the Earth Mass extinctions 224 Burning all fuel reserves will ...

ENVIRONMENTALISM AND CONSERVATION 296 The dominion of man over nature rests only on knowledge Humankind’s dominance over nature ...

FOREWORD As a small child, I was fascinated by nature—birds, butterflies, plants, reptiles, fossils, rivers, weather, and much e ...

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F or the earliest humans, a rudimentary knowledge of ecology—how organisms relate to one another—was a matter of life and death. ...

Tansley introduced the concept of the ecosystem—the interactive relationship between living organisms and the environment in whi ...

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A ncient myths, religions, and philosophies all reflect an enduring fascination with how the world began and man’s place in the ...