Ecology: The Economy of Nature

By Rick Relyea and Robert E. Ricklefs

Book Overview

Ecology: The Economy of Nature teaches ecology through an evolutionary perspective, and with an emphasis on the quantitative skills needed to fully understand the field. The 8th edition continues that mission with updated pedagogy in the text, and powerful new quantitative problem solving tools in SaplingPlus. This landmark text helped to define introductory ecology courses for over four decades. The 8th edition maintains its signature evolutionary perspective and emphasis on the quantitative aspects of the field, but it has been improved for today's undergraduates -- with extensive new pedagogy, including Learning Goals, Concept Checks, fresh examples and fully integrated media resources. Students will especially appreciate the new video tutorials that accompany the Analyzing Ecology essays. The 8th edition also introduces SaplingPlus, an online system which combines the powerful multimedia resources for Ecology with an integrated eBook and the robust assessment library, creating an extraordinary new learning resource for students. This landmark text helped to define introductory ecology courses for over four decades. The text maintains its signature evolutionary perspective and emphasis on the quantitative aspects of the field, but it has been improved for today's undergraduates--with extensive new pedagogy, including Learning Goals, Concept Checks, fresh examples and fully integrated media resources. Students will especially appreciate the new video tutorials that accompany the Analyzing Ecology essays.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1319282687
• ISBN13: 9781319282684
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: W. H. Freeman
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.8" x 0.9" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

College text that is approachable by the non-scientist

I was taught from the first edition of this book by the author himself a few decades ago. Even more-so now than then, the book actually reads well and can be grasped by the non-scientist with a biological bent. Ecology covers the complex interactions between organisms and their environment. It explains why things are as they are in nature with illustrative cases and a quantitative approach to their analysis. How glad I was to find this updated version of an old favorite.

A "must have" text for ecology

An excellent book for the principles of ecology, especially community and population ecology. Provides an introduction to all the basic concepts in ecology and reviews all the milestone studies in the field. Further, it indicates recent trends in research in the field. The language has been kept simple and equations listed are explained very well. Graphs, pictures and diagrams support the the text and useful in enlightening the reader on key concepts. I would say that it is currently the best text book available in ecology for students and ecologists