Ecology Book

I. INTRODUCTION.

1. Introduction to the Science of Ecology.
2. Evolution and Ecology.

II. THE PROBLEM OF DISTRIBUTION: POPULATIONS.

3. Methods for Analyzing Distributions.
4. Factors that Limit Distributions: Dispersal.
5. Factors that Limit Distributions: Habitat Selection.
6. Factors that Limit Distributions: Interrelations with Other Organisms.
7. Factors that Limit Distributions: Temperature, Moisture, and Other Physical-Chemical Factors.
8. The Relationship Between Distribution and Abundance.

III. THE PROBLEM OF ABUNDANCE: POPULATIONS.

9. Population Parameters.
10. Demographic Techniques: Vital Statistics.
11. Population Growth.
12. Species Interactions: Competition.
13. Species Interactions: Predation.
14. Species Interactions: Herbivory and Mutualism.
15. Species Interactions: Disease and Parasitism.
16. Population Regulation.
17. Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations.
18. Applied Problems II: Pest Control.
19. Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology.

IV. DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE AT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL.

20. The Nature of the Community.
21. Community Change.
22. Community Organization I: Biodiversity.
23. Community Organization II: Predation and Competition in Equilibrial Communities.
24. Community Organization III: Disturbance and Nonequilibrium Communities.
25. Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production.
26. Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production.
27. Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles.
28. Ecosystem Health: Human Impacts.
Appendix I - A Precis on Population Genetics.
Appendix II - Estimation of the Size of the Marked Population in Capture-Recapture Studies.
Appendix III - Instantaneous and Finite Rates.
Appendix IV - Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity.
Glossary.
Mathematical.
Symbols.
References.