Fundamentals of Ecology,9780534420666

Fundamentals of Ecology

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Edition: 5th
ISBN13: 9780534420666
ISBN10: 0534420664
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-07-27
Publisher(s): Cengage Learning
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Summary

The late Eugene Odum was a pioneer in systems ecology and is credited with bringing ecosystems into the mainstream public consciousness as well as into introductory college instruction. FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY was first published in 1953 and was the vehicle Odum used to educate a wide audience about ecological science.This Fifth Edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY is co-authored by Odum's protege Gary Barrett and represents the last academic text Odum produced. The text retains its classic holistic approach to ecosystem science, but incorporates and integrates an evolutionary approach as well. In keeping with a greater temporal/spatial approach to ecology, new chapters in landscape ecology, regional ecology, and global ecology have been added building on the levels-of-organization hierarchy. Also, a final chapter entitled Statistical Thinking for Students of Ecology provides a quantitative synthesis to the field of statistics. Contemporary and engaging, this text brings clarity and specificity to the study of ecology in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii
Preface xv
Acknowledgments xvii
The Scope of Ecology
1(16)
Ecology: History and Relevance to Humankind
2(2)
Levels-of-Organization Hierarchy
4(3)
The Emergent Property Principle
7(2)
Transcending Functions and Control Processes
9(1)
Ecological Interfacing
10(1)
About Models
10(5)
Disciplinary Reductionism to Transdisciplinary Holism
15(2)
The Ecosystem
17(60)
Concept of the Ecosystem and Ecosystem Management
18(3)
Trophic Structure of the Ecosystem
21(3)
Gradients and Ecotones
24(2)
Examples of Ecosystems
26(11)
Ecosystem Diversity
37(5)
Study of Ecosystems
42(1)
Biological Control of the Geochemical Environment: The Gaia Hypothesis
43(3)
Global Production and Decomposition
46(14)
Microcosms, Mesocosms, and Macrocosms
60(7)
Ecosystem Cybernetics
67(4)
Technoecosystems
71(3)
Concept of the Ecological Footprint
74(1)
Classification of Ecosystems
75(2)
Energy in Ecological Systems
77(63)
Fundamental Concepts Related to Energy: The Laws of Thermodynamics
78(4)
Solar Radiation and the Energy Environment
82(4)
Concept of Productivity
86(22)
Energy Partitioning in Food Chains and Food Webs
108(13)
Energy Quality: eMergy
121(3)
Metabolism and Size of Individuals: The 3/4 Power Principle
124(2)
Complexity Theory, Energetics of Scale, and the Law of Diminishing Returns
126(1)
Concepts of Carrying Capacity and Sustainability
127(5)
Net Energy Concept
132(1)
An Energy-Based Classification of Ecosystems
132(3)
Energy Futures
135(2)
Energy and Money
137(3)
Biogeochemical Cycles
140(37)
Basic Types of Biogeochemical Cycles
141(2)
Cycling of Nitrogen
143(6)
Cycling of Phosphorus
149(2)
Cycling of Sulfur
151(2)
Cycling of Carbon
153(3)
The Hydrologic Cycle
156(6)
Turnover and Residence Times
162(1)
Watershed Biogeochemistry
163(5)
Cycling of Nonessential Elements
168(2)
Nutrient Cycling in the Tropics
170(2)
Recycling Pathways: The Cycling Index
172(3)
Global Climate Change
175(2)
Limiting and Regulatory Factors
177(47)
Concept of Limiting Factors: The Liebig Law of the Minimum
178(5)
Factor Compensation and Ecotypes
183(2)
Conditions of Existence as Regulatory Factors
185(2)
Soil: Organizing Component for Terrestrial Ecosystems
187(7)
Fire Ecology
194(5)
Review of Other Physical Limiting Factors
199(16)
Biological Magnification of Toxic Substances
215(4)
Anthropogenic Stress as a Limiting Factor for Industrial Societies
219(5)
Population Ecology
224(58)
Properties of the Population
225(11)
Basic Concepts of Rate
236(2)
Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase
238(3)
Concept of Carrying Capacity
241(5)
Population Fluctuations and Cyclic Oscillations
246(9)
Density-Independent and Density-Dependent Mechanisms of Population Regulation
255(3)
Patterns of Dispersion
258(2)
The Allee Principle of Aggregation and Refuging
260(3)
Home Range and Territoriality
263(4)
Metapopulation Dynamics
267(1)
Energy Partitioning and Optimization: r- and K-Selection
268(7)
Population Genetics
275(5)
Life History Traits and Tactics
280(2)
Community Ecology
282(54)
Types of Interaction Between Two Species
283(3)
Coevolution
286(2)
Evolution of Cooperation: Group Selection
288(1)
Interspecific Competition and Coexistence
289(7)
Positive/Negative Interactions: Predation, Herbivory, Parasitism, and Allelopathy
296(8)
Positive Interactions: Commensalism, Cooperation, and Mutualism
304(7)
Concepts of Habitat, Ecological Niche, and Guild
311(5)
Biodiversity
316(11)
Paleoecology: Community Structure in Past Ages
327(2)
From Populations and Communities to Ecosystems and Landscapes
329(7)
Ecosystem Development
336(38)
Strategy of Ecosystem Development
337(19)
Concept of the Climax
356(4)
Evolution of the Biosphere
360(4)
Microevolution Compared with Macroevolution, Artificial Selection, and Genetic Engineering
364(4)
Relevance of Ecosystem Development to Human Ecology
368(6)
Landscape Ecology
374(38)
Landscape Ecology: Definition and Relation to Levels-of-Organization Concept
375(2)
Landscape Elements
377(9)
Biodiversity at the Community and Landscape Levels
386(3)
Island Biogeography
389(3)
Neutral Theory
392(4)
Temporal and Spatial Scale
396(3)
Landscape Geometry
399(5)
Concept of Landscape Sustainability
404(1)
Domesticated Landscapes
404(8)
Regional Ecology: Major Ecosystem Types and Biomes
412(47)
Marine Ecosystems
414(10)
Freshwater Ecosystems
424(8)
Terrestrial Biomes
432(25)
Human-Designed and Managed Systems
457(2)
Global Ecology
459(20)
The Transition from Youth to Maturity: Toward Sustainable Civilizations
460(5)
Ecological-Societal Gaps
465(2)
Global Sustainability
467(5)
Scenarios
472(5)
Long-Term Transitions
477(2)
Statistical Thinking for Students of Ecology
479(32)
R. Cary Tuckfield
Ecosystems and Scale
480(2)
Theory, Knowledge, and Research Design
482(2)
The Ecological Study Unit
484(2)
Inference Methods and Reliability
486(3)
Experimental versus Observational Method in Ecology
489(1)
Statistical Thinking in Ecology
490(2)
The Nature of Evidence
492(2)
Evidence and Hypothesis Testing
494(2)
Formulating the Right Problem
496(1)
Publish or ``Parish''?
496(2)
The Evidence-Oriented Alternative
498(8)
The Two Ways of Discovery
506(2)
The Weight of Evidence Paradigm
508(3)
Glossary 511(24)
References 535(48)
Credits 583(2)
Index 585

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