30-Second Ecology (eBook)

50 key concepts and challenges, each explained in half a minute

Mark Fellowes, Becky Thomas (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
160 Seiten
Ivy Press (Verlag)
978-0-7112-6194-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Whether youre looking to save the planet or learn more about your local environment,30-Second Ecologyintroduces you to the diversity, behaviours and challenges within our ecosystem. Part of the 30-Second series, thisintroductory guideto ecology is split into 7 chapters that cover:Evolution & EcologyBehavioural EcologyPopulation EcologyCommunities & LandscapesBiomes & BiodiversityApplied EcologyEcology in a Changing World Plus profiles of notable ecologists, such as Robert H. Macarthur, Rachel Carson and Wangari Maathai. Each topic issummarised in 300 wordswith one image, helping you understand the subject at great speed. Written by professors and experts from around the world, this book shows us that humans are truly part of this global ecology, not a separate entity from it and our collective actions have far-reaching ramifications on the environment around us. If you like this, you might also be interested in30-Second Zoology. . .

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: 30 Second
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Schlagworte: Applied Ecology • Beginners • behavioural ecology • Biological Control • Biomes & Biodiversity • Birthday • Christmas • climate change • Communities & Landscapes • Competition • conservation biology • Costs of reproduction • Counting species • Cycling populations • Daniel H. Janzen • Defence & counter-defence • deserts • Dispersal • Disturbance & resilience • Ecological Succession • Ecology in a Changing World • Ecosystem services • Energy Flows • Evolution & Ecology • Freshwaters • Gift • Global patterns of biodiversity • Group living • Guide • Habitats & niches • Human-Wildlife Conflict • indirect effects • Island biogeography • keystone species • kin selection • Life history trade-offs • Limits to population growth • Making new species • mating systems • Metapopulations • Mutual benefits • Natural selection • Nature-deficit disorder • nutrient cycles • Oceans • Overharvesting • Parasites • Paul R. Ehrlich • Pollination & society • Population distributions • Population Ecology • present • Rachel Carson • Raman Sukumar • Rewilding • Robert H. MacArthur • Sexual Selection • Soil Ecology • species-area relationship • Student • Temperate forests & grasslands • The Sixth Mass Extinction • Tropical forests & savanna • Tundra & boreal forests • Urban Ecosystems • Valuing biodiversity • Vectors of disease • Wangari Maathai • William D. Hamilton
• ISBN-10: 0-7112-6194-6 / 0711261946
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7112-6194-5 / 9780711261945