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BIOS Instant Notes in Ecology
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This book is designed to give students rapid and easy access to key ecological material to assist learning and revision. Key topics such as populations and interactions, ecosystems, population genetics, community patterns and many more are structured into manageable sections, each cross-referenced, to allow easy navigation through the information.
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INDEX
Acacia, 58, 122, 226
Acclimation, 47, 48
Acclimatization, 46, 47, 48
Acid rain, 283, 284
Adder (Viperus berus), 156
Adiabatic cooling, 23
Adiabatic lapse rate, 26
Aesthetic injury level (AIL), 267, 268
Age distribution, 75
Age pyramids, 75
Age structure, 73, 75
Agenda 21, 287, 288
Agriculture
productivity, 317, 318
water use, 321
sustainable, 318, 322
and ecosystems, 312, 318
Air pollution, 299, 300
Albedo, 24
Alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH), 12
Alders (Alnus), 60
Allee effect, 88
Alleles, 163, 164
deletarious recessive, 156
Allelopathy, 97
Allen’s rule, 50, 52
Allochthonous, 181
fixation of, 166
Allogenic succession, 207, 210
Allozyme, 163, 164
Alteration of generations, 148
Altruism, 98, 151, 153
Amazon, 282
Ambrosia artemisiifolia, 203
Amensualism, 98
Antagonistic pleiotropy, 149
Antarctic Treaty, 289
Antibodies, 123, 125
Antigen, 125
Antigenic stability, 128
Ants, 151, 153
Aphid predators, 115
Aphids, 115, 135
cotton (Aphis gossypii), 274
peach potato (Myzyso parscoe), 114
spotted alfalfa (Therioaphis trifolli), 269, 279
Aphotic zone, 65, 66
Apparent competition, 108, 111
Apple maggot (Rhagoletis pomonella), 173
Aquatic plants, 34, 36
Arabian oryx, 297
Aral Sea, 244, 321
Arctic hares, 231
Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea), 146
Arms race, 128
Asexual reproduction, 155, 157
Assimilation efficiency (AE), 175, 177
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Section A – Introduction to ecology
- Section B – Adaptation to the environment
- Section C – Climate
- Section D – Water
- Section E – Temperature
- Section F – Radiation
- Section G – Nutrients
- Section H – Population ecology
- Section I – Competition
- Section J – Predation
- Section K – Parasitism
- Section L – Mutualism
- Section M – Life history patterns
- Section N – Behavioral ecology
- Section O – Population genetics
- Section P – Ecosystem processes
- Section Q – Communities
- Section R – Community dynamics
- Section S – Biomes
- Section T – Harvesting
- Section U – Pest control
- Section V – Conservation
- Section W – Pollution and global warming
- Section X – The ecology of agriculture
- Further reading
- Index