Ecology
The new Third Edition of Ecology remains focused on the primary goal of this bestselling book: to be the best teaching tool possible for students taking their first course in ecology. Toward that end, the authors updated, replaced, or cut sections of the text as appropriate, and they added a new chapter on Behavioral Ecology, an exciting and growing subfield of ecology that always draws high levels of student interest. In addition, recognizing the importance of hands-on learning, each chapter now includes new Analyzing Data exercises in which students work with real data. These exercises enable students to increase their facility with essential skills such as performing calculations, making graphs, designing experiments, and interpreting results. The authors also revised and strengthened key pedagogical features of Ecology, including: Hands-On Problems • This popular feature of the Companion Website is designed to sharpen scientific reasoning skills. Students are asked to manipulate data, to explore mathematical aspects of ecology in more detail through quantitative problems, to interpret results from real experiments, and to analyze simple model systems using simulations. Case Studies • Chapter-opening Case Studies present an engaging story or interesting application, capturing the reader's attention while introducing the topic of the chapter. Later, the authors bring the reader full circle with the corresponding "Case Study Revisited" section at chapter's end. Connections in Nature • To facilitate the ability of students to grasp how events in nature are interconnected, each chapter closes with a section that discusses how the material covered in that chapter affects and is affected by interactions at other levels of the ecological hierarchy. Where appropriate, these interconnections are also emphasized in the main body of the text.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Sunderland, Massachusetts Sinauer Associates, Inc
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| Subjects: | Ecología, Cambio climático, |
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