Ecology

Ecology: Evolution, Application, Integration
Second Edition
David T. Krohne
© 2018



Contents

I. Organisms, the Environment, and Evolution

1. Introduction to Ecology
2. Adaptation and Evolution
3. Adaptations to the Physical Environment
4. Terrestrial Communities
5. Freshwater and Marine Communities
6. Behavioral Ecology
7. The Ecology of Intraspecific Variation

II. Populations

8. Demography
9. Population Regulation
10. Life History Strategies

III. Communities: Interactions Among Species

11. Competition
12. Coevolution I: Exploitative Interactions
13. Coevolution II: Mutualism
14. The Structure of Communities

IV. Communities and Ecosystems

15. Ecological Succession
16. Species Diversity
17. Energy Flow and Trophic Structure

V. Large-Scale and Applied Ecology

18. Biogeochemical Cycles
19. Conservation Biology
20. Landscape Ecology
21. Human Global Ecology