本书介绍了理解环境问题所需的生态学基本原理,并在应用生态学的框架下,探讨了栖息地破坏、酸沉降以及人类新疾病的出现等环境问题。该书将生态学、进化、保护生物学与环境变化有机地联系起来,特别是将人口的发展变化、环境经济与政策等内容引入到书中。书中内容丰富生动,并提供了大量的案例,插图设计精美,各章之后有简要总结、进一步阅读材料和有关因特网址以便深入学习。
本书适合作为高等院校环境生态学课程或**介绍生态学原理的环境科学课程的教材,并可供环境、生物领域的教师、科技人员参考。

Preface
About the Author
Part 1 Biodiversity and the Physical Setting
Chapter 1 Ecology and the Power of Natural Selection
Chapter 2 Chance,Change and Evolution
Chapter 3 The Great Wealth of Life:Biodiversity
Chapter 4 Climate
Chapter 5 Ecosystems,Nutrient Cycles,and Soil
PART 2 Population and Community Ecology
Chapter 6 The Ecological Efficiency of Living Things
Chapter 7 Who Needs Sex Anyway?
Chapter 8 Populations and Resources:A Balancing Act
Chapter 9 The Power of Predators
Chapter 10 Peopling Earth
PART 3 Community Ecology
Chapter 11 Biomes
Chapter 12 Aquatic Ecosystems
Chapter 13 Why Wetlands Aren't Worthless
Chapter 14 Making Connection:Fisheries
Chapter 15 Succession
Chapter 16 Community Change
Chapter 17 Climate Change and Global Warming
Chapter 18 Fragmentation
Chapter 19 Reserve Deign
PART 4 Ecology and Society
Chapter 20 Peeding the World
Chapter 21 Pollution:the Other Face of Fertilizers and Pesticides
Chapter 22 Atmosphere,Air Pollution,and Ozone
Chapter 23 The Use and Supply of Energy
Chapter 24 How Does Acid Depostion Affect Ecosystems?
Chapter 25 Human Disease:Evolutionary
Chapter 26 Environmental Economics
Chapter 27 Environmental Legislation and Policy
Chapter 28 Peering Into The Future
Glossary
References
Photo Credits
Index