Ecology & field biology
These 12 virtual lab exercises enable students to perform potentially dangerous, lengthy, or expensive experiments in a safe electronic environment. The labs are available for purchase individually or in a 12-pack with the printed Student Lab Manual.
Print Book,English, ©2001
Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco, ©2001
Laboratory manuals
xviii, 771, 18, 31, 4, 19 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 29 cm
9780321042903, 9780321058492, 9780321068828, 9780321068859, 0321042905, 0321058496, 0321068823, 0321068858
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Pt. I, Introduction :
1. Ecology: meaning and scope
Pt. II, The physical environment :
2. Solar radiation and climate
3. The physical environment
4. Soils
Pt. III, The organism in its environment :
5. Adaptation
6. Adaptations to the environment I: photosynthesis and the light environment
7. Plant adaptations to the environment II: thermal, moisture, and nutrient environments
8. Animal adaptations to the environment
9. Decomposition
Pt. IV, Intraspecific populations ecology :
10. Properties of populations
11. Population growth
12. Intraspecific competition: population regulation
13. Life history patterns
Pt. V, Population interactions :
14. Interspecific competition
15. Concepts of predation
16. predators and their prey
17. Coevolutionary interactions: parasitism and mutualism
18. Human impacts on populations
Pt. VI, Ecological genetics :
19. Population genetics
Pt. VII, The community :
20. Community structure
21. Community dynamics
22. Processes controlling community dynamics
23. Landscape ecology
Pt. VIII, The ecosystem :
24. Ecosystem productivity
25. Biogeochemistry I: nutrient cycling
26. Biogeochemistry II: global cycles and human impacts
27. Biogeography of ecosystems
Pt. IX, Comparative ecosystem ecology :
28. Grassland to tundra
29. Forests
30. Freshwater ecosystems
31. Saltwater ecosystems
32. Global environment change
Accompanied by: Lab manual for biology labs on-line : evolution lab by Robert Desharnais, Jeffrey Bell. c2000, (11 p. ; 28 cm.)
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