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Ecology : concepts and applications
The accelerating pace of discovery makes the teaching of a imic scientific discipline, such as ecology, very challeng¬ing. The challenge to ecology instructors and their students : - made greater by the relevance of ecology to the pressing environmental problems that threaten ecological systems at every level. As we attempt to educate students to understand and design solutions to those problems, every facet of ecol¬ogy is relevant. Therefore, ideally, an introduction to ecology should include the foundations to all of its major subdisci-plines. Including such breadth, and developing it to sufficient depth, is difficult. However, careful organization and a con¬ceptual approach can ease the task.
Introductory Audience
I have written this book for students taking their first under¬rate course in ecology. I have assumed that .students in this one-semester course have some knowledge of basic chemistry and mathematics and that they have had a course in general biology that included introductions to physiology, biological diversity, and evolution.
"/ receive positive feedback about the text from my students. During or after the course, some students majoring in other
Is have expressed an interest in switching to ecology as a major, and I believe the text contributes toward that
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