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The accelerating pace of discovery makes the teaching of a
dynamic scientific discipline such as ecology very challenging. The challenge
to ecology instructors and their students is made greater by the relevance of
ecology to the pressing environment problems that threaten ecological system at
every level. As we attempt to educate students to understand and design
solutions to those problems, every facet of ecology is relevant. Therefore,
ideally, an introduction to ecology should include such breadth, and developing
it to sufficient depth, is difficult. However, careful organization and a
conceptual approach can ease the task.
This introductory general ecology text features a strong
emphasis on helping students grasp the main concepts of ecology while keeping
the presentation more applied than theoretical. An evolutionary perspective
forms the foundation of the entire discussion. The book begins with the natural
history of the planet, considers portions of the whole in the middle chapters,
and ends with another perspective of the entire planet in the concluding
chapter. Its unique organization of focusing only on several key concepts in
each chapter sets it apart from the competition.
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