Elements of Ecology Incl.: The Ecology Action Guide (5th Edition)

Thomas M. Smith Robert Leo Smith

ISBN 10: 0321068785 / ISBN 13: 9780321068781

Published by Pearson Education, 2002

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Neu -This textbook provides students 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 students with an understanding of the principles governing the relationships between plants, animals, and other living organisms within their environment, and give them skills for critically evaluating public issues related to ecology. Abundant real-life examples illustrate and clarify the text's emphasis on understanding ecological patterns within an evolutionary framework. 682 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elements of Ecology Incl.: The Ecology Action Guide (5th Edition)
• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321068785
• ISBN 13: 9780321068781
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Neu
• Weight: 1270 grams

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Synopsis

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. For instructors and students, or anyone interested in ecology.

About the Author

Robert L. Smith holds a B.S. in Animal Science, an M.S. in Wildlife Biology along with a Ph.D. in Wildlife Biology from Cornell University. Currently, he is a professor of Ecology at West Virginia University. He has spent over 30 years teaching Ecology and conducting field research throughout the world.

His teaching responsibilities have involved mostly undergraduate courses in general ecology and graduate courses in population ecology and wildlife management. His research has included forest-fire related problems in southern West Virginia, vegetational development and succession on abandoned and reclaimed surface mines, the relation between forest vegetational structure and the forest bird community, and forest habitat assessment and habitat evaluation procedures based on vegetational structure.

Smith has served as a consultant to congressional committees, workshops on environmental education and energy and environmental problems, the National Landmarks program of the U.S. Department of Interior, National Research Council Task Forces on wildlife and fisheries issues and ecological classification systems for implementing environmental quality evaluation procedures. He is the author of numerous articles and reviews as well as the author of three ecology texts: Ecology and Field Biology, Elements of Ecology and Ecology of Man: An Ecosystem Approach, Harper and Row, New York.