Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

Charles Krebs is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He received his B.S. from the University of Minnesota and earned both his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. In addition to teaching ecology for 40 years, he works extensively on the population of rodents in Northern Canada, the United States, and Australia, trying to understand the mechanisms behind population fluctuations. He has published three ecology textbooks including Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance, Sixth Edition and Ecological Methodology, Second Edition both published by Benjamin Cummings.

• 1. Introduction to the Science of Ecology 2. Evolution and Ecology 3. Behavioral Ecology 4. Analyzing Geographic Distributions 5. Factors That Limit Distributions I: Biotic 6. Factors That Limit Distributions II: Abiotic 7. Distribution and Abundance 8. Population Parameters and Demographic Techniques 9. Population Growth 10. Species Interactions I: Competition 11. Species Interactions II: Predation 12. Species Interactions III: Herbivory and Mutualism 13. Species Interactions IV: Disease and Parasitism 14. Regulation of Population Size 15. Applied Problems I: Harvesting Populations 16. Applied Problems II: Pest Control 17. Applied Problems III: Conservation Biology 18. Community Structure in Space: Biodiversity 19. Community Structure in Time: Succession 20. Community Dynamics I: Predation and Competition in Equilibrial Communities 21. Community Dynamics II: Disturbance and Nonequilibrium Communities 22. Ecosystem Metabolism I: Primary Production 23. Ecosystem Metabolism II: Secondary Production 24. Ecosystem Metabolism III: Nutrient Cycles 25. Ecosystem Dynamics under Changing Climates 26. Ecosystem Health and Human Impacts Appendix: A Primer on Population Genetics Appendix: Instantaneous and Finite Rates Appendix: Species Diversity Measures of Heterogeneity