PART 1 What Is Ecology? 1
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Science of Ecology 2
CHAPTER 2 Evolution and Ecology 17
PART 2 The Problem of Distribution:Populations 31
CHAPTER 3 Methods for Analyzing Distributions 32
CHAPTER 4 Factors That Limit Distributions:Dispersal 41
CHAPTER 5 Factors That Limit Distributions:Habitat Selection 57
CHAPTER 6 Factors That Limit Distributions:Interrelations with Other Species 71
CHAPTER 7 Factors That Limit Distributions:Temperature,Moisture,and Other Physical-Chemical Factors 86
CHAPTER 8 The Relationship Between Distribution and Abundance 106
PART 3 The Problem of Abundance:Populations 115
CHAPTER 9 Population Parameters 116
CHAPTER 10 Demographic Techniques:Vital Statistics 133
CHAPTER 11 Population Growth 157
CHAPTER 12 Species Interactions:Competition 179
CHAPTER 13 Species Interactions:Predation 206
CHAPTER 14 Species Interactions:Herbivory and Mutualism 235
CHAPTER 15 Species Interactions:Disease and Parasitism 258
CHAPTER 16 Population Regulation 280
CHAPTER 17 Applied Problems Ⅰ:Harvesting Populations 305
CHAPTER 18 Applied Problems Ⅱ:Pest Control 331
CHAPTER 19 Applied Problems Ⅲ:Conservation Biology 355
PART 4 Distribution and Abundance at the Community Level 385
CHAPTER 20 The Nature of the Community 386
CHAPTER 21 Community Change 403
CHAPTER 22 Community Organization Ⅰ:Biodiversity 434
CHAPTER 23 Community Organization Ⅱ:Predation and Competition in Equilibrial Communities 459
CHAPTER 24 Community Organization Ⅲ:Disturbance and Nonequilibrium Communities 485
CHAPTER 25 Ecosystem Metabolism Ⅰ:Primary Production 513
CHAPTER 26 Ecosystem Metabolism Ⅱ:Secondary Production 537
CHAPTER 27 Ecosystem Metabolism Ⅲ:Nutrient Cycles 560
CHAPTER 28 Ecosystem Health:Human Impacts 583
EPILOGUE 609
APPENDIX Ⅰ A Primer on Population Genetics 610
APPENDIX Ⅱ Estimation of the Size of the Marked Popluation in Capture-Recapture Studies 612
APPENDIX Ⅲ Instantaneous and Finite Rates 614
APPENDIX Ⅳ Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity 617
GLOSSARY 619
BIBLIOGRAPHY 623
CREDITS 664
SPECIES INDEX 673
SUB？ECT INDEX 680