Overview

This classic text presents a unique evolutionary approach to ecology. The entire text has been improved, updated, and extensively reorganized and a new chapter (16) has been added. The Sixth Edition reflects the extent to which humans now dominate ecosystems, with anthropogenic (human) effects interwoven into every chapter.

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Author:   Eric R. Pianka
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Edition:   6th edition
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780321042880

ISBN 10:   0321042883
Pages:   512
Publication Date:   13 September 2000
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Preface.  1. Background.  2. History and Biogeography.  3. Meteorology.  4. Climate and Vegetation.  5. Resource Acquisition and Allocation.  6. Rules of Inheritance.  7. Evolution and Natural Selection.  8. Vital Statistics of Populations.  9. Population Growth and Regulation. 10. Sociality. 11. Interactions Between Populations. 12. Competition. 13. The Ecological Niche. 14. Experimental Ecology. 15. Predation and Parasitism. 16. Phylogenetics in Ecology. 17. Community and Ecosystem Ecology. 18. Biodiversity and Community Stability. 19. Island Biogeography and Conservation Biology. References. Index.

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"Eric R. Pianka was born in Hilt, California on 23 January 1939. Pianka earned a B. A. from Carleton College in 1960, a Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1965, and the D. Sc. degree or his collected works in 1990 from the University of Western Australia. He was a postdoctoral with Robert H. MacArthur at Princeton University during 1966-68. He is currently the Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor of Zoology at the University of Texas in Austin, where he has taught evolutionary ecology since 1968. Pianka was Managing Editor of the American Naturalist from 1971 - 1974, and was on the editorial boards of the American Naturalist, BioScience, National Geographic Research, and Research and Exploration. He has presented hundreds of invited lectures at most of the world's major academic institutions as well as a plenary lecture on the state of the art of community ecology at the First World Congress of Herpetology in 1989. During his 30+ year academic career, Eric Pianka published more than a hundred scientific papers, four of which became ""Citation Classics,"" as well as dozens of invited articles, book chapters, and a dozen books including an autobiography. His textbook Evolutionary Ecology, first published in 1974 and currently in its fifth edition, has been translated into Japanese, Polish, Russian and Spanish and is currently being translated into Chinese and Italian. Consult his home page for further details."

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