Ecology in Action > 생명과학

Preface
Acknowledgements

Part I. Introduction and the Physical Environment:
1. What is ecology in action?
2. The physical environment

Part II. Evolutionary and Organismal Ecology:
3. Evolution and adaptation
4. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of acquiring nutrients and energy
5. Physiological and evolutionary ecology of temperature and water relations
6. Behavioral ecology
7. Bernd Heinrich - studying adaptation in the field and the laboratory

Part III. Population Ecology:
8. Life history evolution
9. Distribution and dispersal
10. Population abundance and growth
11. Conservation ecology
12. The chimpanzees of Gombe

Part IV. Community Ecology:
13. Interspecific competition
14. Predation and other exploitative interactions
15. Facilitation
16. Complex interactions and food webs
17. Biological diversity and community stability
18. Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs - community interactions and tropical restoration through biodiversity conservation

Part V. Ecosystem and Global Ecology:
19. Ecosystem structure and energy flow
20. Nutrient cycles: global, regional and local
21. Disturbance and succession
22. Geographic and landscape ecology
23. The carbon cycle and climate change ecology
24. Jane Lubchenco - from the marine intertidal to global service
25. Epilogue

Glossary
References
Figure and quotation credits
Index.