Tabla de Contenidos: “…Organisms in their environments: the evolutionary backdrop -- Conditions -- Resources -- Life, death and life histories -- Intraspecific competition -- Dispersal, dormancy and metapopulations -- Ecological applications at the level of organisms and single-species populations: restoration, biosecurity and conservation -- Interspecific competition -- The nature of predation -- The population dynamics of predation -- Decomposers and detritivores -- Parasitism and disease -- Symbiosis and mutualism -- Abundance -- Ecological applications at the level of population interactions: pest control and harvest management -- The nature of the community: patterns in space and time -- The flux of energy through ecosystems -- The flux of matter through ecosystems -- The influence of population interactions on community structure -- Food webs -- Patterns in species richness -- Ecological applications at the level of communities and ecosystems: management based on the theory of succession, food webs, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity.…”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Production ; Energy flow and food webs ; Nutrient supply and cycling -- Applied and large-scale ecology. Conservation biology ; Landscape ecology and ecosystem management ; Global ecology.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction to ecology: historical foundations and developing frontiers -- Life on land -- Life in water -- Population genetics and natural selection -- Temperature relations -- Water relations -- Energy and nutrient relations -- Social relations -- Population distribution and abundance -- Population dynamics -- Population growth -- Life histories -- Competition -- Exploitative interactions: predation, herbivory, parasitism, and disease -- Mutualism -- Species abundance and diversity -- Species interactions and community structure -- Primary production and energy flow -- Nutrient cycling and retention -- Succession and stability -- Landscape ecology -- Geographic ecology -- Global ecology.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Organisms in their environments: the evolutionary backdrop -- Conditions -- Resources -- Life, death and life histories -- Intraspecific competition -- Dispersal, dormancy and metapopulations -- Ecological applications at the level of organisms and single-species populations: restoration, biosecurity and conservation -- Interspecific competition -- The nature of predation -- The population dynamics of predation -- Decomposers and detritivores -- Parasitism and disease -- Symbiosis and mutualism -- Abundance -- Ecological applications at the level of population interactions: pest control and harvest management -- The nature of the community: patterns in space and time -- The flux of energy through ecosystems -- The flux of matter through ecosystems -- The influence of population interactions on community structure -- Food webs -- Patterns in species richness -- Ecological applications at the level of communities and ecosystems: management based on the theory of succession, food webs, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity.…”

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