Integrative Ecology

Dr Marc Salomon is a retired associate professor with degrees in applied mathematics and evolutionary biology, two master’s degrees in biomathematics (1979) and evolutionary biology (1982), and a PhD in evolutionary biology (1989). He was an associate professor at Rennes 1 University and later Sorbonne University in Paris. Although he retired in 2022, he is still an active honorary researcher in the Laboratory of Computational and Quantitative Biology at Sorbonne University. His research career focused on evolutionary mechanisms at microevolutionary and macroevolutionary scales. He has supervised PhD theses and is the author of 30 published articles. His research approach is multidisciplinary, integrative, and based on thorough, long-term surveys of natural populations. He has lectured in mathematics, statistics, algorithmics, animal biology and ecology for over three decades. In the frame of these teaching and research activities, he gathered much of the material of this book.

• 1.Introduction.- 2.The definition and scope of ecology. - 3.Biomes.- 4.The interactions.- 5.Example of an ecological system the kelp zone of Central California.- 6.Ecological models.- 7.Ecology before Darwin.- 8.The emergence of modern ecology.- 9.The energetical approach.- 10.The material approach the biogeochemical cycles.