Introduction to ecology

Product Description

This book "gives a balanced, up-to-date account of ecology which makes an ideal introduction to the subject for any intelligent reader. The book evolved from seven years' experience of lecturing, as assigned reading for a one-semester course for second-year students: 'There is, however, nothing in the book which should be beyond the comprehension of first-year science students . . . It is my hope that mathematics and jargon could be completely circumvented by those wishing to set them aside and follow the arguments in prose, that arts students and even artists would be able to glean from the book of the great fun that ecologists find in their own peculiar way of looking at nature . . , my a…