Product Description

This best-selling majors ecology text continues to present ecology as a series of problems for students to critically analyze. No other text presents analytical, quantitative, and statistical ecological information in an equally accessible style. Reflecting the way ecologists actually practice, the book emphasizes the role of experiments in testing ecological ideas and discusses many contemporary and controversial problems related to distribution and abundance. Throughout the text, Krebs thoroughly explains the application of mathematical concepts in ecology while reinforcing these concepts with research references, examples, and interesting end-of-chapter review questions. Thoroughly updated with new examples and references, the text now features a new full-color design and is accompanied by an Art CD-ROM for instructors, and a Companion web site for students.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #521185 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 608 pages

About the Author

Charles Krebs is Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and has been teaching for 40 years. He received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching ecology, he has worked extensively on the population of rodents in Northern Canada, the United States, and Australia, trying to understand the mechanisms behind population fluctuations. He has published three ecology textbooks including Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance, Fifth Edition and Ecological Methodology, Second Edition both published by Benjamin Cummings.

Customer Reviews

Essential Reading for Ecology
This book writes out the underlying principles for Ecology and is best used as an undergraduate text book and postgraduate and beyonds reference book. The author has spelled out the principles of ecology with examples of scientific study that suggests the behaviour and natural order of plants and animals in the natural work.

I would recommend this as important reading for anyone studying natutral sciences, earth science, biology and others interested in Ecology and its fundamentals.