Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 234 pages
- Published by: Oxford University Press, USA February 16, 2006
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0198525281
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0198525288
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Book Dimensions:
9.4 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
- Weighs: 1 pounds
Product Review
"This book reflects a high level of scholarship and attention to production detail."--ECOLOGY
Product Description
A concise, rigorous, and readable introduction to evolutionary ecology, a field of questions united by the intermix of evolutionary and ecological knowledge. Although not designed as a textbook, the author's enthusiastic and accessible style will inspire students (both undergraduate and graduate) to use the book in conjunction with the primary literture and more extensive reviews of individual topics.
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Discovering Evolutionary Ecology: Bringing Together Ecology and Evolution (Hardcover)
Much of today's scientific advancement comes from the merging of two or more traditional sciences into something new that takes from both of its parents to yield new insights into how the world around us works. Such is the case with Evolutionary Ecology. Ecology is traditionally a science of the great outdoors, dealing with the interactions between organisms and their environment. Evolution is traditionally a science of museum specimens, dealing with how lineages of organisms arise, change and eventually go extinct. While each of these have roots that go back 150 years, only recently has the merger of the two garnered enough information, enough focus to warrant dedicated books. This book is one of the first to cover evolutionary ecology as a separate and distinct field. It is intended to serve as a suitable undergraduate textbook to explain the field to students. At the same time it covers the field in general so that a professional practioner in some specialized area can learn about the overal area, and finally is should have some appeal to the interested non-professional but interested reader.
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