All the chapters have been systematically organized by making of response structure and clear statements. It includes diagrams, photographs, introductory statements, models, and a website designed especially for this book. The book offers a plethora of additional tools to enhance the reading experience of the students. References have been provided throughout the book thoroughly and several real-world examples have been included to make the material more engaging for the readers. Though the authors have maintained a top-down ecosystem approach in the book, this one comes with new sections on various different and relevant topics. This is the Indian edition of the book and it comes with certain salient features of its own. It also offers methods to solve problems in various related fields like restoration ecology, conservation biology, ecosystem health, resource management, ecological toxicology, and landscape ecology. This book showcases the applications of the ecological principles in the real world. The book has been designed for a wide audience to master the study of ecological science. Contemporary and engaging, this text brings clarity and specificity to the study of ecology in the twenty-first century.Fundamentals Of Ecology is a textbook written for the students of B.Sc (Hons) Zoology by Eugene Odum, Murray Barrick, and Gary W.
Also, a final chapter entitled "Statistical Thinking for Students of Ecology" provides a quantitative synthesis to the field of statistics. In keeping with a greater temporal/spatial approach to ecology, new chapters in landscape ecology, regional ecology, and global ecology have been added building on the levels-of-organization hierarchy.
The text retains its classic holistic approach to ecosystem science, but incorporates and integrates an evolutionary approach as well. This Fifth Edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY is co-authored by Odum's protege Gary Barrett and represents the last academic text Odum produced. FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY was first published in 1953 and was the vehicle Odum used to educate a wide audience about ecological science. The late Eugene Odum was a pioneer in systems ecology and is credited with bringing ecosystems into the mainstream public consciousness as well as into introductory college instruction.
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