Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter 1. The Web of LifeUNIT 1. ORGANISMS AND THEIR ENVIRONMENTChapter 2. The Physical EnvironmentChapter 3. The BiosphereChapter 4. Coping with Environmental Variation: Temperature and WaterChapter 5. Coping with Environmental Variation: EnergyUNIT 2. EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGYChapter 6. Evolution and EcologyChapter 7. Life HistoryChapter 8. Behavioral EcologyUNIT 3. POPULATIONSChapter 9. Population Distribution and AbundanceChapter 10. Population Growth and RegulationChapter 11. Population DynamicsUNIT 4. SPECIES INTERACTIONS Chapter 12. PredationChapter 13. ParasitismChapter 14. CompetitionChapter 15. Mutualism and CommensalismUNIT 5. COMMUNITIESChapter 16. The Nature of CommunitiesChapter 17. Change in CommunitiesChapter 18. BiogeographyChapter 19. Species Diversity in CommunitiesUNIT 6. ECOSYSTEMSChapter 20. ProductionChapter 21. Energy Flow and Food WebsChapter 22. Nutrient Supply and CyclingUNIT 7. APPLIED AND LARGE-SCALE ECOLOGYChapter 23. Conservation BiologyChapter 24. Landscape Ecology and Ecosystem ManagementChapter 25. Global EcologyAnswersGlossaryIllustration and Photo CreditsLiterature CitedIndex

About the Author

William D. Bowman is Professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, affiliated with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Mountain Research Station, and the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research.

Sally D. Hacker is Professor at Oregon State University, Corvallis, where she has been a faculty member since 2004.

Michael L. Cain, having opted to change careers and focus full-time on writing, is currently affiliated with the Department of Biology at New Mexico State University.

Reviews

"This past fall, I taught a 200-level ecology course at Colby and used Cain et al. as the textbook. I found the test bank questions written by Norman Johnson to be extraordinarily useful. I tend to be skeptical about test bank questions in general, and almost never use them, so it was a very pleasant surprise for me to see how good they were. I didn't actually use them as a test-bank, but chose selected questions to use for in-class review and discussion
prompts. The book overall was wonderful, too!" -Judy Stone, Colby College (on the Third Edition)