Essentials of Ecology

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Brief Contents

Detailed Contents vii

Preface for Instructors xv

Learning Skills 1

HUMANS AND SUSTAINABILITY:

AN OVERVIEW

1 Environmental Problems, Their Causes,
and Sustainability 5

SCIENCE, ECOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES,

AND SUSTAINABILITY

2 Science, Matter, Energy, and Systems 28

3 Ecosystems: What Are They
and How Do They Work? 50

4 Biodiversity and Evolution 77

5 Biodiversity, Species Interactions,

and Population Control 100

6 The Human Population and Its Impact 122

7 Climate and Terrestrial Biodiversity 140

8 Aquatic Biodiversity 162

SUSTAINING BIODIVERSITY

9 Sustaining Biodiversity: The Species

Approach 183

10 Sustaining Terrestrial Biodiversity:

The Ecosystem Approach 214

11 Sustaining Aquatic Biodiversity 249

Supplements S

Glossary G

Index I