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Title Readings in ecology / edited by Edward J. Kormondy.

Imprint Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1965]

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Description xiv, 219 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Series Prentice-Hall biological science series
Prentice-Hall biological science series.
Contents Enquiry into plants / Theophrastus -- History of plants / Linnaeus -- The natural history of ants / René Antoine Ferchault De Réaumur -- Organic chemistry in its application to vegetable physiology and agriculture / Justus Liebig -- Optima and limiting factors / F.F. Blackman -- Physiological animal geography / Victor E. Shelford -- Water -- general considerations; thermal properties / Lawrence J. Henderson -- Heat exchange near the ground; cold air floods and cold air dams / Rudolf Geiger -- The utilization of solar energy by aquatic organisms / George L. Clarke -- Factors effecting vegetational zonation on coastal dunes / Henry J. Oosting, W. Dwight Billings -- Further studies in photoperiodism, the response of the plant to relative length of day and night / W.W. Garner, H.A. Allard -- Compensation for temperature in the metabolism and activity of poikilotherms / Theodore H. Bullock -- The method of trial and error in the behavior of lower organisms / Herbert S. Jennings -- Forced movements, tropisms and animal conduct / Jacques Loeb -- Instinct, with original observations on young animals / Douglas A. Spalding -- Taxis and instinkthandlung in der eirollbewegung der Graugans. I. / Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen -- Discrimination of stream odors by fishes and its relation to parent stream behavior / Arthur D. Hasler, Warren J. Wisby -- An essay on the principle of population as it affects the future improvement of society / Thomas Robert Malthus -- Notice sur la loi que la population suit dans son accroisement / P.F. Verhulst -- On the rate of growth of the population of the United States since 1790 and its mathematical representation / Raymond Pearl, Lowell J. Reed -- The quantitative analysis of environmental factors / Royal N. Chapman -- Periodic fluctuations in the numbers of animals: their causes and effects / Charles S. Elton -- Cooperation and conflict among primitive organisms / Paul R. Burkholder -- Competition for common food in protozoa / G.F. Gause -- The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the distribution of the barnacle Chthamalus stellatus / Joseph H. Connell -- Territory in bird life / H. Eliot Howard -- A study of some ant larvae with a consideration of the origin and meaning of the social habit among insects / William Morton Wheeler -- Studies in animal aggregations: causes and effects of bunching in land isopods / W.C. Allee -- Natural selection and family size in the starling / David Lack -- The role of weather in determining the distribution and abundance of animals / L.C. Birch -- The self-adjustment of populations to change / A.J. Nicholson -- Community structure, population control, and competition / Nelson G. Hairston, Frederick E. Smith, Lawrence B. Slobodkin -- Report on the Mollusca and Radiata on the Ægean Sea, and on their distribution considered as bearing on geology / Edward Forbes -- An oyster-bank is biocönose, or a social community / Karl Möbius -- Oecology of plants, an introduction to the study of plant communities / Eugene Warming -- The ecological relations of the vegetation on the sand dunes of Lake Michigan / Henry C. Cowles -- The role of ecotypic variation in the distribution of the central grassland of North America / Calvin McMillan -- Studies on Connecticut lake sediments. I.A postglacial climatic chronology for southern New England / Edward S. Deevey, Jr. -- Plant succession, an analysis of the development of vegetation / Frederic E. Clements -- Principles of classification of the spruce communities of European Russia / V.N. Sukatchew -- Remarques sur l'étude des groupements de plantes / Josias Braun-Blanquet, Ernst Furrer -- Die Grundgesetzmässigkeiten im Aufbau der Vegetationsdecke / L.G. Ramensky -- The individualistic concept of the plant association / H.A. Gleason -- Characteristics of natural areas and factors in their development / Stanley A. Cain -- A consideration of climax theory: the climax as a population and pattern / R.H. Whittaker -- Ecosystem as the basic unit in ecology / Francis C. Evans -- The lake as a microcosm / Stephen A. Forbes -- The accumulation of energy by plants / Edgar Nelson Transeau -- The annual energy budget of an inland lake / Chancey Juday -- The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology / Raymond L. Lindeman -- Dynamics of production in marine area / George L. Clarke -- Trophic structure and productivity of Silver Springs, Florida / Howard T. Odum -- Nitrate in the sea / H.W. Harvey -- Hydrogen ion concentration, soil properties and growth of higher plants / O. Arrhenius -- The biological control of chemical factors in the environment / Alfred C. Redfield -- Lakes in relation to terrestrial life patterns / Aldo Leopold -- Homage to Santa Rosalia or Why are there so many kinds of animals? / G. Evelyn Hutchinson -- On bird species diversity / Robert H. Mac Arthur, John W. Mac Arthur -- Relationships between structure and function in ecosystems / Eugene P. Odum -- On certain unifying principles in ecology / Ramon Margalef.
Subject Ecology.
Ecology. (OCoLC)fst00901476
Ecology. (DNLM)D004463
Added Author Kormondy, Edward J., 1926- editor, writer of preface.

 
    
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