This book provides readers with a popular modular organization and an easy-to-read writing style that explains the basics of ecology. The authors have updated the Fifth Edition to reflect the current emphasis on the physical environment, global environmental change, and adaptation/evolution. As a result, there are new chapters, a new structure, and new topics found in the table of contents. These changes provide readers with an understanding of the principles governing the relationships between plants, animals, and other living organisms within their environment, and give them skills to critically evaluating public issues related to ecology. Abundant real-life examples illustrate and clarify the book's emphasis on understanding ecological patterns within an evolutionary framework.
- ISBN10 0321068785
- ISBN13 9780321068781
- Publish Date 21 August 2002 (first published May 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 November 2005
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pearson Education (US)
- Imprint Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company, Subs of Addison Wesley Longman, Inc
- Edition 5th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 682
- Language English