fundamentals of ecology by eugene p odum

Fundamentals of Ecology was ranked first in a survey of the membership of the American Institute of Biological Sciences as the book that had the greatest impact on career training in the biological sciences (Barrett and Mabry, 2002).

Glossary provides convenient access to key terms used in each chapter.Of Georgia, was published after Odum’s death (at the age of 88).Clear statement and response structure organizes all chapters.

Meticulous and thorough references are provided.

NEW! Discussions address how knowledge of the principles of ecology can help solve problems in fields such as resource management, conservation biology, ecological toxicology, ecosystem health, landscape ecology, and restoration ecology.

NEW! Real world examples, including classic and current references, render the content more engaging and concrete.

NEW! Many pedagogical enhancements, including introductory statements, engaging diagrams, models, and photographs illustrating principles, concepts, and mechanisms in evolutionary and integrative biology.

NEW! A top-down ecosystem/landscape approach is maintained, structured on an increasing hierarchal (population, community, ecosystem, landscape, regional, and global) levels-of-organization underpinning.

NEW! New sections on the ecological footprint, global climate change, soil and fire ecology, metapopulation dynamics, population genetics, biodiversity, neutral theory, and landscape sustainability provide an integrative perspective to the field of ecology.

Contemporary and engaging, this text brings clarity and specificity to the study of ecology in the twenty-first century.

Also, a final chapter entitled 'Statistical Thinking for Students of Ecology' provides a quantitative synthesis to the field of statistics. In keeping with a greater temporal/spatial approach to ecology, new chapters in landscape ecology, regional ecology, and global ecology have been added building on the levels-of-organization hierarchy. The text retains its classic holistic approach to ecosystem science, but incorporates and integrates an evolutionary approach as well. This Fifth Edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY is co-authored by Odum's protege Gary Barrett and represents the last academic text Odum produced. FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY was first published in 1953 and was the vehicle Odum used to educate a wide audience about ecological science. The late Eugene Odum was a pioneer in systems ecology and is credited with bringing ecosystems into the mainstream public consciousness as well as into introductory college instruction.

Fundamentals of ecology by eugene p odum