Essentials of Ecology, Enhanced Homework Edition

by G. Tyler Miller Jr.

G. Tyler Miller's worldwide bestsellers have evolved right along with the changing needs of your diverse student population. Focused specifically on energizing and engaging all your students, Miller and new contributor Scott Spoolman have been at work scrutinizing every line--enhancing, clarifying, and streamlining to reduce word density as well as updating with the very latest environmental news and research. The resulting texts are shorter, clearer, and so engaging that your students will actually want to read their assignments. The ideal alternative to ecology texts that tend to be too difficult for non-majors, this succinct 13-chapter, full-color textbook covers scientific principles and concepts, ecosystems, evolution, biodiversity, population ecology, and more. New to this edition for instructors is PowerLecture, a one-stop shop for lecture prep that includes everything you need to create dynamic lectures all in one place.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Ecology

115 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

G. Tyler Miller Jr. has written or co-authored 60 editions of various textbooks for introductory courses in environmental science, basic ecology, energy, and environmental chemistry. Since 1975, Miller's books have been the most widely used textbooks for environmental science in the United States and throughout the world. Miller has a PhD from the University of Virginia and has received two honorary doctorate degrees for his contributions to environmental education. He taught college for 20 years and developed an innovative interdisciplinary undergraduate science program before deciding to write environmental science textbooks full time in 1975.

Reviews

[Tori · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yet another textbook that I actually enjoyed reading and found useful enough that I didn't sell it back. Mine unfortunately did not come with the InfoTrac access card. I was disappointed.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

For a textbook, it had a lot of interesting information. Combined with the class, I care just a little more about our crazy plant than I did four months ago.

[Avid Reader and Geek Girl · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of simple for a college textbook, but it was a 100-level class.