Ecology

by William D. Bowman, Sally D. Hacker, Michael L. Cain

The new fourth edition of Ecology maintains its focus on providing an easy to read and well organized text for instructors and students to explore the basics of ecology. This edition also continues with an increasing emphasis on enhancing student quantitative and problem solving skills. A new Hone Your Problem Solving Skills series has been added to the set of review questions at the end of each chapter. The questions expose students to hypothetical situations or existing data sets, and allow them to work through data analysis and interpretation to better understand ecological concepts. New for this edition, additional Analyzing Data exercises have been added to the Companion Website. These exercises enable students to enhance their essential skills sets, such as performing calculations, making graphs, designing experiments, and interpreting results. Recognizing the increasing evidence and effects of climate change on ecological systems, additional Climate Change Connections have been added. These vignettes help students appreciate the many consequences of global climate change on the distributions and functions of organisms as well as the ecosystems they depend on. Finally, the authors also revised and strengthened key pedagogical features of Ecology .

For Students

Companion Website

The Ecology Companion Website offers students a wealth of study and review material. Access to the site is included with each new copy of the textbook. The Companion Website

Chapter Outlines and Summaries
Hands On Problem Solving Exercises that provide practical experience working with experimental data and interpreting results from simulations and models.
Analyzing Data Exercises companions to the in book exercises that give students extra practice with quantitative skills.
Climate Change Connections explore the links between the ecological concepts and climate change.
Web Extensions expand on the coverage of selected topics introduced in the textbook.
Online Quizzes are a great way for students to check their comprehension of the material covered in each chapter (instructor registration required).
Web Stats Review a brief statistics primer for ecology
Flashcards, Suggested Readings, and Glossary

For Instructors

(All instructor resources are available to adopting instructors online. Instructor registration is required.)

Instructor's Resource Library

The Ecology Instructor's Resource Library includes a variety of resources to aid instructors in course planning, lecture development, and student assessment. The IRL

Figures & All of the textbook's figures (including photos) and tables are provided as JPEGs, both with and without balloon captions, optimized for use in presentations. Complex figures are provided in both whole and split versions.
PowerPoint Three different PowerPoint presentations are provided for each chapter of the
* All figures and tables from each chapter, with titles and full captions.
* A complete lecture outline, including selected figures.
* Hands On Instructor versions of all Hands On Problems are provided in ready to use presentations.
Hands On Problem Solving In addition to the instructor versions mentioned above, the student versions of the exercises from the Companion Website, with answers, are included in Microsoft Word format.
Answers to Analyzing Data Complete answers for all of the online Analyzing Data companion exercises.

Test Bank

The Ecology , Fourth Edition, Test Bank includes a thorough set of questions for each chapter. All important concepts are covered, and additional quantitative questions have been added for the fourth edition. Each question is referenced to a specific chapter heading and concept number, and is categorized according to Bloom's Taxonomy. All of the questions from the Companion Website online quizzes are also included. The Test Bank is provided in three

Microsoft Word (by chapter)
Diploma (software included): Diploma is a powerful, easy to use exam creation program that lets you quickly assemble exams using any combination of publisher provided questions and your own questions.
Question bank files ready to import into your Blackboard course.

Online Quizzing

The Companion Website includes an online quiz for each chapter of the textbook. Via the instructor's website, these quizzes can be assigned or opened for use by students as self quizzes. Custom quizzes can be created using any combination of publisher provided questions and instructor created questions. Quiz results are stored in an online gradebook and can be exported.

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks, Science, Biology, Ecology, School, Nature

744 pages, Hardcover

First published March 21, 2008

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Reviews

[Haven]

as far as textbooks go, this wasn't impossible to read.

[Elisabeth]

Did quite read all of it, but read a heck of alot... The text was simplistic, but the content was interesting

[Hady George · Rating 3 out of 5]

More engaging than I thought it would be. Written in a casual tone and filled with information. The links to climate change throughout help keep things relevant, and got me interested in the topics I don't usually enjoy reading about. I definitely enjoyed some chapters much more than others, but this down to the content rather than the way information is presented. I would recommend this to anyone wanting to get a solid foundation in ecology, a discipline relevant to all sorts of scientific fields.

[Elizabeth Chang · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very useful textbook! Perfect amount of words interspersed with a good amount of pictures!

[Austin Barger · Rating 2 out of 5]

A bland textbook, but it helped me pass the class. In reality, I only read about 530 of the 600ish pages

[Olivia]

Understandable textbook with relevant examples

[Cassandra Sharkey · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don’t like Ecology....

[Lisa Arrigo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent resource

[Becky Thublin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This textbook utilized many real-world examples, making the more complicated ecological concepts easier to grasp. I enjoyed it very much and think it's an excellent book to use for an ecology class.

[Aimen · Rating 4 out of 5]

sassy, informative and keeps my interests cramming the night before