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| Preface | |
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| Readings for What is Ecology? | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Thinking Like a Mountain: Escudilla; and Prairie Birthday | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Pine Processionary; and More Inquiries Into Mason-Bees | |
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| Readings for People and Nature | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Landscape History and Ecological Change | |
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| Ecological Imperialism | |
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| The Idea of a Garden | |
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| The Ecology of Order and Chaos | |
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| Readings for Landscape Ecology | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Hierarchical Approaches to the Study of Water Quality in Rivers | |
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| Assessing Potential Gray Wolf Restoration in the Northeastern United States | |
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| Landscape Ecology: Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecological Systems | |
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| Landscape Diversity: The Concept Applied to Yellowstone Park | |
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| Spatial Scaling in Ecology | |
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| Readings for Ecosystem Ecology | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Cascading Trophic Interactions and Lake Productivity | |
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| Command and Control and the Pathology of Natural Resource Management | |
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| Moose, Microbes, and the Boreal Forest | |
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| Human Domination of Earth's Ecosystems | |
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| Readings for Physiological Ecology | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Assessing Water Quality with Submersed Aquatic Vegetation | |
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| Organism Size, Life History, and N:P Stoichiometry | |
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| Apex Predation by Yellowfin Tuna | |
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| Hydraulic Limits to Tree Height and Tree Growth | |
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| Readings for Behavioral Ecology | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Evolutionary Stable Nesting Strategy in a Digger Wasp | |
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| Do Helpers Increase Reproductive Success? | |
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| Honeybees Maximize Efficiency by Not Filling Their Crop | |
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| Readings for Population Ecology | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Population Growth and Earth's Human Carrying Capacity | |
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| The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus stellatus | |
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| Impact of Food and Predation on the Snowshoe Hare Cycle | |
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| Readings for Community Ecology | |
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| Introductions | |
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| Interlevel Relations in Ecological Research and Management | |
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| Ecological Resilience, Biodiversity, and Scale | |
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| Life as a Manifestation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics | |
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