FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY

Fundamentals of Ecology

Long before ecology became associated in the public understanding with recycling glass bottles and cleaning the junk out of filth-clogged waterways, Eugene P. Odum was one of the true ecologists, doing basic research in, and teaching the world about, his chosen field of environmental biology. Ecology is truly "the totality of relations between organisms and their environment," and in this moder...

Odum-fundamentals of Ecology

Second Editioni-A popular college text, this book gives the student a clear picture of the interrelationships operating amonig plants. animals, microorganisms and his fellow man. It explains 'what nature "does" as vell as how she "looks."' Presentinig a well balanced synthesis of the entire field of ecology, the textbook combines the funtctional and the descriptive, the aquatic and terrestrial,...

Animal Population Ecology and Control Fundamentals

Generally overlooked fundamentals of bacterial genetics and ecology.

Several important aspects of the antimicrobial resistance problem have not been treated extensively in previous monographs on this subject. This section very briefly updates information on these topics and suggests how this information is of value in assessing the contributions of human and agricultural use of antimicrobial agents on the problem of increasing antimicrobial resistance. The overa...

Fractal Population Ecology Theory

Abstract Purpose - The aim of this paper is to describe the population ecology theory through fractal thinking, an emergent human operating system that is creative, adaptive, healthy, and evolutionary; furthermore, a parallel is drawn between the population ecology model and the fractal structure. Top-down hierarchies are typically characterized by command and control systems of the authority t...