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Ecology, Revised and Expanded : A Pocket Guide.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520942226
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ecology, Revised and ExpandedDDC classification:
  • 577
LOC classification:
  • QH541.13 -- .C35 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings) -- Introduction -- AIR -- ALGAE -- BACTERIA -- BIODIVERSITY -- BIOREGION -- BIOSPHERE / ECOSPHERE -- BIOTECHNOLOGY -- CARBON -- CARRYING CAPACITY -- COMMUNITY -- CONSERVATION -- CYCLES -- DECOMPOSITION -- DEFORESTATION / DESERTIFICATION -- ECOLOGY -- ECOSYSTEM -- ENERGY -- ENVIRONMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE -- EVOLUTION -- EXTINCTION -- FIRE -- FOOD WEBS -- FUNGI -- GAIA -- GLOBAL WARMING -- GROWTH -- HABITAT -- IMPACTS -- INTERDEPENDENCE -- KINGDOMS -- LAND USE -- MICROBES -- MIGRATION -- NICHE -- NITROGEN -- ORGANIC -- PHOSPHORUS -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS -- POLLUTION -- POPULATION -- PREDATION -- PROTISTS -- QUARANTINE -- RESTORATION -- SEX -- SMELL -- SOIL -- SPECIES -- SUCCESSION -- SULFUR -- SUSTAINABILITY -- SYMBIOSIS -- TAXONOMY -- TIME -- TOURISM -- TOXICS -- URBAN ECOLOGY -- VALUES -- VIRUSES -- WATER -- WILDERNESS / WILDNESS -- XERISCAPE -- YIELD -- ZOOS -- A Postscript: The Power of Words -- Recommended Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos, Ecology: A Pocket Guide forms a dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through. An accessible, informative guide to achieving ecoliteracy, it tells the story of the amazing interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental degradation. This new edition has been updated throughout and features five new essays on the topics of biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.
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COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings) -- Introduction -- AIR -- ALGAE -- BACTERIA -- BIODIVERSITY -- BIOREGION -- BIOSPHERE / ECOSPHERE -- BIOTECHNOLOGY -- CARBON -- CARRYING CAPACITY -- COMMUNITY -- CONSERVATION -- CYCLES -- DECOMPOSITION -- DEFORESTATION / DESERTIFICATION -- ECOLOGY -- ECOSYSTEM -- ENERGY -- ENVIRONMENT -- ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE -- EVOLUTION -- EXTINCTION -- FIRE -- FOOD WEBS -- FUNGI -- GAIA -- GLOBAL WARMING -- GROWTH -- HABITAT -- IMPACTS -- INTERDEPENDENCE -- KINGDOMS -- LAND USE -- MICROBES -- MIGRATION -- NICHE -- NITROGEN -- ORGANIC -- PHOSPHORUS -- PHOTOSYNTHESIS -- POLLUTION -- POPULATION -- PREDATION -- PROTISTS -- QUARANTINE -- RESTORATION -- SEX -- SMELL -- SOIL -- SPECIES -- SUCCESSION -- SULFUR -- SUSTAINABILITY -- SYMBIOSIS -- TAXONOMY -- TIME -- TOURISM -- TOXICS -- URBAN ECOLOGY -- VALUES -- VIRUSES -- WATER -- WILDERNESS / WILDNESS -- XERISCAPE -- YIELD -- ZOOS -- A Postscript: The Power of Words -- Recommended Reading -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Offering essential environmental wisdom for the twenty-first century, this lively, compact book explains more than sixty basic ecological concepts in an easy-to-use A-to-Z format. From Air and Biodiversity to Restoration and Zoos, Ecology: A Pocket Guide forms a dynamic web of ideas that can be entered at any point or read straight through. An accessible, informative guide to achieving ecoliteracy, it tells the story of the amazing interconnectivity of life on Earth and along the way provides the ecological understanding necessary for fighting environmental degradation. This new edition has been updated throughout and features five new essays on the topics of biotechnology, global warming, migration, smell, and tourism.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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