Ecology: A Pocket Guide, Revised and Expanded » (10th Anniversary Edition)

Ernest Callenbach is the author of Ecotopia, an environmental classic that has sold nearly a million copies, Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains (UC Press), and Ecotopia Emerging, among other books. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

"A graceful, lucid, and judicious book that belongs in the back pocket of every planetary citizen."—Evan Eisenberg, author of The Ecology of Eden

"For you readers who hate science and never read it, Ecology: A Pocket Guide excites your understanding and gently shows you what you have been missing. For the rest of us, this book confirms our love for and respect for scientific insight as a major way of knowing."—Lynn Margulis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Wildlife Activist

This great little book...will equip any concerned citizen of the planet with the basic knowledge of all things ecological....Every household should have one!

Ecology: Planetary to Microscopic Scales (drawings)

Air 3

Algae 8

Bacteria 8

Biodiversity 13

Bioregion 15

Biosphere/Ecosphere 18

Biotechnology 18

Carbon 20

Carrying Capacity 23

Community 25

Conservation 27

Cycles 29

Decomposition 31

Deforestation/Desertification 33

Ecology 34

Ecosystem 39

Energy 41

Environment 48

Environmental Justice 49

Evolution 51

Extinction 55

Fire 58

Food Webs 61

Fungi 63

Gaia 66

Global Warming 68

Growth 76

Habitat 78

Impacts 80

Interdependence 83

Kingdoms 85

Land Use 87

Microbes 88

Migration 90

Niche 94

Nitrogen 95

Organic 98

Phosphorus 99

Photosynthesis 100

Pollution 102

Population 105

Predation 107

Protists 109

Quarantine 110

Restoration 112

Sex 117

Smell 121

Soil 123

Species 126

Succession 127

Sulfur 129

Sustainability 130

Symbiosis 132

Taxonomy 134

Time 135

Tourism 137

Toxics 138

Urban Ecology 139

Values 145

Viruses 149

Water 151

Wilderness/Wildness 154

Xeriscape 156

Yield 157

Zoos 159

A Postscript: The Power of Words 163

Recommended Reading 167

Acknowledgments 169

Index 171