First Ecology: A Primer in Ecology and Environmental Issues

by Anne-Marie Brennan, Anne-Maria Brennan, Alan N. Beeby, et al.

How much do we know about the living world and our impact upon it? Enough to make effective predictions about its future? This volume explores key scientific concepts underlying ecology and presents the story of environmental change from a human perspective, dealing with sustainability, biodiversity, extinction rates and global warming. In a form which is accessible to both the scientific and non-scientific reader, the text shows how ecological principles...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0412630605
• ISBN13: 9780412630606
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Garland Science
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.5" x 9.7"