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A primer for environmental literacy /
Presents key concepts of environmental science in a style that can be understood by those who are not scientists.
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1998]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Foundation concepts: The environment
- The system
- Hierarchial organization
- Land and water systems: The ecosphere, with comments on the Gaia hypothesis and the biosphere
- Energy dynamics
- The composition of the earth
- The biome
- The landscape
- The watershed
- The ecotope
- Species diversity
- Primary production and decomposition
- Ecological succession
- The population and the individual: The population as a demographic unit
- Life-history adaptations
- The individual organism
- Body size and climate space
- Speciation and natural selection
- Interaction between individuals and species: Interactions between individuals
- Mutualism
- Competition
- Predation
- Coevolution and niche
- The biotic community
- Island biogeography
- Human ecology
- Conclusion : ecology, environment and ethics.