Pollock S. Eyewitness. Ecology

Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2005. — 72 p. — ISBN: 978-0-7566-1387-7, 978-0-7566-1387-9.Discover the ways in which animals, plants, energy, and matter are linked together in the cycle of life. Here is a spectacular, thought-provoking, and highly informative guide to the fascinating story of ecology. Superb color photographs of animals, plants, and ecosystems reveal the ideas and discoveries that have changed our understanding of life around us. See how plants store their food supply, how dung enriches the soil, how biodiversity is measured, the damage caused by acid rain, and a field-digger wasp capturing a fly. Learn how plants create their own food, how and when the world's human population "exploded," and how your backyard provides a small-scale model of life all over the Earth. Discover the links in the seashore food chain, how the buffalo was saved from extinction, why insects such as locusts are subject to population explosion, and much, much more!What is ecology?
Nature’s producers
The transfer of energy
Food webs
Recycling to live
The water cycle
Carbon on the move
Keeping the Earth fertile
The life-giving soil
The distribution of life
Ecological niche
Studying populations
Checks on population growth
Family strategies
Time and nature
Ecology and evolution
Life in the ocean
Surviving in arid lands
A world of ebb and flow
Leaves and needles
Riches of the reef
Sharing the grasslands
Where river meets sea
Scaling the heights
Fresh waters
Incredible diversity
Human ecology
Human impact
Ecology today
Did you know?
Zones of life
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