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Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance (5th edition)
副标题: 生态学：分布与多度的实验分析（第5版）
ISBN: 9780321068798
出版社: Benjamin/Cummings
出版年: 2001
页数: 816
定价: $101.00
装帧: 10.25"H x 8.25"W x 1.25"D; 3.85 lbs.
内容简介
Book Description
This best-selling majors ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated with new examples and references, the book now features a new full-color design and is accompanied by an art CD-ROM for instructors.
The field package also includes The Ecology Action Guide, a guide that encourages readers to be environmentally responsible citizens, and a subscription to The Ecology Place (www.ecologyplace.com), a web site and CD-ROM that enables users to become virtual field ecologists by performing experiments such as estimating the number of mice on an imaginary island or restoring prairie land in Iowa. For college instructors and students. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From the Back Cover
This best-selling ecology book continues to present ecology as a series of problems for readers to critically analyze. No other book presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the book, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated, the book includes new chapters on disease ecology (15) and the human impact on ecosystem health (28). Chapters on conservation biology, community organization, and primary production are extensively revised, and coverage of evolutionary and functional biology is more integrated. Thirty-four new essays provide interesting insights into relevant topics, exploring some of the problems ecologists deal with in their attempt to understand nature.
作者简介
Charles J. Krebs
Zoology, Animals, Physiology, Metabolism
"We should be conservative in the ways we deal with natural systems."
Achievement
Famous for writing Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance (now in its fifth edition), a textbook used worldwide to teach ecology, and for his work on the Fence Effect.
Birthdate
September 17, 1936
Birthplace
St. Louis, Missouri
Residence
Mayne Island, British Columbia
Personality
Patient, makes lots of wise cracks, efficient, direct, organized, fair, confident, intimidating, even keeled, fun
Title
Emeritus Professor of Zoology
Office
Department of Zoology, University of BC, Vancouver, BC
Status
Semi-retired
Degrees
BSc (Biology), University of Minnesota, 1957
MA (Animal Ecology), UBC, 1959
PhD (Animal Ecology) UBC, 1962
Awards
Wildlife Society, Terrestrial Publication of the Year award, 1965
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1979
Killam Senior Fellowship, 1985
President’s Medal, University of Helsinki, 1986
Honorary doctorate, University of Lund, 1988
Sir Frederick McMaster Senior Fellowship, CSIRO, Australia, 1992
C. Hart Merriam Award, American Society of Mammalogists, 1994
Fry Medal, Canadian Society of Zoologists, 1996
Mentor
Dennis Chitty, professor at UBC and world expert on lemming cycles
