Beeby, Alan, Brennan, Anne-Maria (2008) First Ecology, Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues. Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, 432 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-929808-2. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:63495)
The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided. |
Abstract
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First Ecology: Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues provides a critical and evaluative introduction to the science of ecology. Alan Beeby and Anne-Maria Brennan present a succinct survey of ecology, describing and explaining the relationship between living organisms and their environment.
In sequence, First Ecology develops the core themes of ecology at each level of organization - subcellular, population, ecosystem, landscape, and planetary. Understanding this hierarchy - and the interplay between these levels - is crucial to the environmental decisions our species faces at the start of the twenty-first century.
Distinctive Features
- Assumes little background knowledge and leads students gradually into the subject to build understanding, making it ideal for students from a range of disciplines.
- Detailed examples and case studies build on principles introduced in the text, thus allowing students to see ecological techniques in action.
- An Online Resource Center (password protected) offers instructors a virtual field course comprised of exercises using real data to assist and enrich students' time in the field; figures from the book, available to download to facilitate lecture preparation; PowerPoint slides introducing key concepts, supported with integrated figures from the book; and answers to exercises provided in the book. For students, the site provides hyperlinks to the primary literature cited in the book, and a web link library of all the URLs included in the book, together with additional web links on specific topics.
Item Type: | Book |
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Subjects: |
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography Q Science > QH Natural history Q Science > QH Natural history > QH541 Ecology |
Divisions: | Divisions > Directorate of Education > School of Education |
Depositing User: | Mita Mondal |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2017 11:09 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Nov 2021 10:24 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/63495 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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