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Guide to the study of animal ecology
Charles Christopher Adams
Ecology asks not just what an animal is but how it lives among others. Charles Adams offers an early guide to studying animal ecology, covering surveys, field methods, and the collection and preservation of specimens. A foundational handbook that helped turn nature study into a rigorous science. For the naturalist ready to move from watching to understanding whole communities of life.
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40 chapters
- 1GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4LIST OF FIGURES
- 5RELATION OF ECOLOGY TO BIOLOGY
- 6I. AIM, CONTENT, AND POINT OF VIEW
- 7REFERENCES ON THE ECOLOGICAL STANDPOINT
- 8II. THE VALUE AND METHOD OF ECOLOGICAL SURVEYS
- 9III. FIELD STUDY
- 10IV. THE COLLECTION, PRESERVATION AND DETERMINATION OF SPECIMENS
- 11V. REFERENCES TO SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUE
- 121. The Scientific Method
- 132. Directions for Collecting and Preserving Specimens, Photographing, Surveying, and Other Phases of Technique
- 143. The Preparation of Papers for Publication and on Proof Reading
- 15VI. IMPORTANT SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON THE LIFE HISTORIES OF INSECTS AND ALLIED INVERTEBRATES
- 16VII. THE LAWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE, OR THE “ORDERLY SEQUENCE OF EXTERNAL NATURE”
- 17The Dynamic and Process Relations of the Environment
- 18VIII. THE LAWS OF ORDERLY SEQUENCE OF METABOLISM, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT, PHYSIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS, AND BEHAVIOR, OR “THE LIVING ORGANISM AND THE CHANGES WHICH TAKE PLACE IN IT”
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