Description: I. Introduction. 1. Ecology: Its Meaning and Scope. 2. Experimentation and Models. II. The Organism and Its Environment. 3. Adaptation. 4. Climate. 5. Water Balance. 6. Thermal Balance. 7. Light and Biological Cycles. 8. Nutrients. 9. Soils. III. The Ecosystem. 10. Concept of the Ecosystem. 11. Ecosystem Energetics. 12. Biogeochemical Cycles. IV. Comparative Ecosystem Ecology. 13. Grassland to Tundra. 14. Forest. 15. Freshwater Ecosystems. 16. Saltwater Ecosystems. V. Population Ecology. 17. Properties of Populations. 18. 18 Population Growth and Regulation. 19. Intraspecific Competition. 20. Life History Patterns. 21. Population Genetics. 22. Interspecific Competition. 23. Predation. 24. Plant-Herbivore Systems. 25. Herbivore-Carnivore Systems. 26. Parasitism. 27. Mutualism. VI. The Community. 28. Community Structure. 29. Disturbance. 30. Succession.

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