The Ecology Book

DIRECTORY 339 such as the Hawaiian chain, where the date of each island is already known with some accuracy. Most of her work is ...

Abiotic Nonliving; often used to refer to the nonliving components of an ecosystem (such as climate and temperature). Abundance ...

GLOSSARY Consumer A species that eats other organisms to obtain its required nutrients; this term can apply to any organism that ...

Greenhouse effect The way in which gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap heat. The buildup of these gases leads to global warming. Gr ...

Thermoregulation The internal processes that occur within an organism to ensure it maintains a stable temperature, a function th ...

Numbers in bold refer to a topic’s main entry A acacia trees 57–58, 57 acid rain 93, 222, 229, 234, 248–249 adaptation 72 see al ...

INDEX carbon 74, 75 carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) 65, 136, 228, 259, 281, 302–303, 305, 318, 321 Keeling Curve 240–241, 241 social cost ...

ecosystems cont. evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) 131, 154–155 experimental 157 external disturbances 136–137 feedback loops ...

J K jaguars 65 Janzen, Daniel 43, 55, 56–57 Janzen–Connell hypothesis 55 Jenner, Edward 84, 102 Johnson, Roswell Hill 50 Johnsto ...

light pollution 235, 252–253 Likens, Gene 229, 248, 249, 249 Lindeman, Raymond 112, 113, 130, 138–139 Linnaeus, Carl 20, 42, 80– ...

S Saint-Hilaire, Etienne Geoffroy 20 salamanders 63, 283, 283 , 291 salmon 184 salt-tolerant vegetation 169 saltmarshes 142, 210 ...

Spencer, Herbert 172 spontaneous generation 102 spring creep 274–279 squirrels 53, 53 , 278 starfish 62, 63, 130, 141, 141 starl ...

351 THE HUMAN FACTOR 230 Barry Commoner 236 John Muir 240 Ralph Keeling 242 Rachel Carson 248 Gene Likens 250 Garrett Hardin 252 ...

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Dorling Kindersley would like to thank Professor Fred D. Singer for his help in planning this book, Monam Nishat ...