Ecology, Revised and Expanded: A Pocket Guide

✍ Scribed by Ernest Callenbach

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 191
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Ecology: Planetary To Microscopic Scales
Introduction
Air
Algae
Bacteria
Biodiversity
Bioregion
Biosphere / Ecosphere
Carbon
Carrying Capacity
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