Elements of Ecology Update (4th Edition)

Smith, Robert Leo; Smith, Thomas M.; Smith

ISBN 10: 0321042964 / ISBN 13: 9780321042965

Published by Addison-Wesley (edition Updated), 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elements of Ecology Update (4th Edition)
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley (edition Updated)
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0321042964
• ISBN 13: 9780321042965
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Updated.
• Condition: Fair

About this title

Synopsis

Presents the principles of ecology, demonstrating the relationships to todays most pressing environmental issues. Softcover. DLC: 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.