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Now in its eighth edition, this landmark textbook has helped to define introductory ecology courses for over four decades. With a dramatic transformation from previous editions, this text helps lecturers embrace the challenges and opportunities of teaching ecology in a contemporary lecture hall.
The text maintains its signature evolutionary perspective and emphasis on the quantitative aspects of the field, but it has been completely rewritten for today’s undergraduates. Modernised in a new streamlined format, from 27 to 23 chapters, it is manageable now for a one-term course. Chapters are organised around four to six key concepts that are repeated as major headings and repeated again in streamlined summaries. Ecology: The Economy of Nature is available with SaplingPlus. An online solution that combines an e-book of the text, Ricklefs' powerful multimedia resources, and the robust problem bank of Sapling Learning. Every problem entered by a student will be answered with targeted feedback, allowing your students to learn with every question they answer.
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Robert E Ricklefs - Curators' Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1995. His teaching at Missouri, and previously at the University of Pennsylvania, has included courses in introductory and advanced ecology, biogeography, evolution, and biological statistics. Bob’s research has addressed a broad range of topics in ecology and evolutionary biology, from the adaptive significance of life-history traits of birds, to island biogeography and the community relationships of birds, herbivorous insects, and forest trees.
Rick Relyea - the Director of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He also serves as Director of the Jefferson Project at Lake George, a groundbreaking partnership between Rensselaer, IBM, and the FUND for Lake George. For the project, Relyea leads a team of Rensselaer scientists, engineers, computer scientists, and artists who are using the latest in science and technology to understand, predict, and enable a resilient ecosystem for nearby Lake George.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ ML IE PRNT; 8th edition (13 March 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 656 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1319187722
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1319187729
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 27.4 x 2 x 22 cm
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Rick Relyea is the David M. Darrin ’40 Senior Endowed Chair in the Department of Biological Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he served as the Director of the Darrin Fresh Water Institute (2014-2022).

Professor Relyea teaches courses in ecology, evolution, and animal behavior at the undergraduate and graduate level. He received a B.S. in Environmental Forest Biology from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry, a M.S. in Wildlife Management from Texas Tech University, and a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolution from the University of Michigan.

For three decades, Professor Relyea has conducted research on a wide range of topics including community ecology, evolution, disease ecology, and ecotoxicology. He has served on multiple scientific panels for the National Science Foundation and served as an Associate Editor for the journals of the Ecological Society of America. He has authored more than 200 scientific articles and book chapters, and has presented research seminars throughout the world. In 2005, he was named the Chancellor's Distinguished Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh and in 2014 he received the Tina & David Bellet Teaching Excellence Award.

Professor Relyea also has a strong interest in high school education. Besides helping teachers perform research in his laboratory, he conducts summer workshops for high school teachers in the fields of ecology and evolution. He also works to bring cutting-edge research experiments into high school classrooms.

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Aris tibayan
5.0 out of 5 stars Great purchase
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I enjoyed the explanations, definitions, and format of all the chapters
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1.0 out of 5 stars I think it's totally unacceptable to hold buyers to ransom like this, especially as the book is already relatively ...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 May 2018
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Be aware when buying this book that the links to film clips, tutorials etc highlighted in the book are only accessible if you pay out extra for an online educational package called Sapling - at least $90+ for 6 months access!! A query sent to the publishers (Are these resources available without buying an additional package?) received a very curt and dismissive reply; definitely need some tutoring themselves in how to respond to customers! I think it's totally unacceptable to hold buyers to ransom like this, especially as the book is already relatively expensive - and obviously even more expensive to hire for 6 months than to buy a hard copy. I'm not a teacher so have no need of a facility to set homework tasks, assignments, or keep track of students' progress. I do however expect links to resources specifically intended to exemplify points made in the book to be accessible to me when I buy it. The publishers should find some other way to link these resources into the online educational package and not include them in the book. Very disappointing all round, though obviously is not Amazon's fault, though perhaps it should be highlighted on here that the book is aimed primarily at online users and those buying a hard copy will not have full access to highlighted resources.
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4.0 out of 5 stars good for my ecology course
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really concise and easy to follow!
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1.0 out of 5 stars I didn't heed the other reviews, and I regret it.
Reviewed in the United States on 19 September 2018
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Let me preface this by saying that I haven't reviewed products on amazon before (or any site, for that matter), but I so strongly dislike this book that I had to warn other cash-strapped college students. I downloaded the Kindle EBook version of this text, and it is just as the other reviewers have said-- there are pages missing, some sections don't open, and so on. Some pages that seem like they're missing can actually be found, but it takes going to another section via the table of contents, and scrolling back to previous sections. This doesn't work all the time, however, and is a huge nuisance. I probably should have just bought the paperback book, because I feel like I wasted my money. If you're reading this, you should do the same.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Poor eBook Function
Reviewed in the United States on 31 March 2018
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Ebook is functioning horribly. Kindle app is updated and the table of contents jumps to the wrong chapters. There are tons of missing pages, too. I've tried deleting and redownloading and sign off and on. Nothing is working the ebook does not function well on Kindle app for Windows 10. A regretful buy, but necessary for class.
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