Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.010
{"title":"Distribution and dispersal","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128241273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.005
{"title":"Physiological and evolutionary ecology of acquiring nutrients and energy","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130769351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.020
{"title":"Ecosystem structure and energy flow","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126052872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.023
{"title":"Geographic and landscape ecology","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123829855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.006
{"title":"Physiological and evolutionary ecology of temperature and water relations","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"9 17","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134413050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.011
{"title":"Population abundance and growth","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"379 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123432200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ecology in ActionPub Date : 2016-03-10DOI: 10.1017/9781316335802.002
Frederick D. Singer
{"title":"What is ecology in action?","authors":"Frederick D. Singer","doi":"10.1017/9781316335802.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316335802.002","url":null,"abstract":"Taking a fresh approach to integrating key concepts and research processes, this undergraduate textbook encourages students to develop an understanding of how ecologists raise and answer real-world questions. Four unique chapters describe the development and evolution of different research programs in each of ecology’s core areas, showing students that research is undertaken by real people who are profoundly influenced by their social and political environments. Beginning with a case study to capture student interest, each chapter emphasizes the linkage between observations, ideas, questions, hypotheses, predictions, results, and conclusions. Discussion questions, integrated within the text, encourage active participation and a range of end-of-chapter questions reinforce knowledge and encourage application of analytical and critical thinking skills to real ecological questions. Students are asked to analyse and interpret real data, with support from online tutorials that show them how to use the R programming language for statistical analysis.","PeriodicalId":224571,"journal":{"name":"Ecology in Action","volume":"244 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-03-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132557322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}