A citizen's guide to ecology /
Publisher's description: The earth is continuously changing and evolving yet it is unclear how environmental changes will affect us in years to come. What changes are inevitable? What changes, if any, are beneficial? And what can we do as citizens of this planet to protect it and our future gen...
Основен автор: | Slobodkin, Lawrence B. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
New York, N.Y. :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=146905 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Citizen's guide to ecology. |
Съдържание:
- Defining ecology
- Changes
- Why another ecology book?
- Who are ecologists
- 1: The big picture : water and energy, life's necessities. The origin of life and of atmospheric oxygen
- Big systems: Lakes
- Lakes through the seasons
- Oceans
- Dry land
- How independent are ecological systems?
- 2: How do species survive? Populations
- Individuals and populations
- Species diversity
- Species extinction
- Are all invasive species villains?
- 3: Two major current problems : global warming and endangered species. What can be done about global warming?
- Protecting endangered species
- 4: Applying ecology : experts, pseudoexperts, and how to tell them apart. The importance of being natural and vegetarian
- Medicine and ecology as "health" sciences.