Written in a clear, accessible style, the Oxford Dictionary of Ecology contains over 5,000 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric science, and oceanography. Coverage is wide-ranging and includes plant and animal physiology, animal behavior, pollution, conservation, and habitat management, evolution, environmental pollution, climatology and meteorology. Entries are cross-referenced for ease of use and are supported by clear diagrams where appropriate. Fully revised, updated, and expanded, the third edition contains over 30 new illustrations and over 200 new entries. It also includes a new appendix listing useful websites for further research. Invaluable to students of ecology or any branch of the environmental sciences, this reference is also a perfect tool for general readers with an interest in the natural world.
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`Review from previous edition Comprehensive coverage of ecology and the environmental sciences' BBC Wildlife
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Michael Allaby has written numerous books on environmental science, including the Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate and the Facts on File Weather and Climate Handbook. He is the General Editor of the Oxford Dictionaries of Zoology and Plant Sciences, and co-author of the Dictionary of Earth Sciences.
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If there are some terms you can't quite recall, or a term you want to know and you are constantly exposed to several aspects of the field, it's a helpful companion book.
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Review of the 1998 2nd edition: comparison to EARTH SCIENCES,
By Michele L. Worley (Kingdom of the Mouse, United States) - See all my reviews
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Allaby is also a co-editor of the 2nd edition of A DICTIONARY OF EARTH SCIENCES, as well as General Editor of THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NATURAL HISTORY. Where terms in this book's 2nd edition appear in the 2nd edition of A DICTIONARY OF EARTH SCIENCES (which came out a year later), the latter is to be preferred.
EARTH SCIENCES provides additional cross-references for various technical terms (e.g. classes of minerals) that the ECOLOGY dictionary doesn't contain. (ECOLOGY rarely seems to contain cross-references that EARTH SCIENCES does not.) Where the definitions are not identical (which is the most common occurrence when the terms appear in both books), the differences lie in the clarification of examples, the provision of additional details, rearrangement of the order of the information for greater clarity, and (where the word is used differently for non-ecological disciplines) the provision of additional alternate meanings. In other words, Allaby incorporated the work done on this book into the DICTIONARY OF EARTH SCIENCES, and he and his co-editor on that book continued cleaning up and improving any terms used in common by the two books, taking care not to introduce silly inconsistencies. When found in both sources, only one word out of a quasi-random selection of forty didn't match *any* of the senses listed in the DICTIONARY OF EARTH SCIENCES. However, out of 75 quasi-random terms in the DICTIONARY OF ECOLOGY, 35 weren't in the DICTIONARY OF EARTH SCIENCES, so unfortunately the DICTIONARY OF ECOLOGY can't be treated as a simple subset of the larger work. Not surprisingly, the terms found in the ECOLOGY dictionary that aren't in the EARTH SCIENCES dictionary tend to be the more 'biological' terms, e.g. "saltatory" ('leaping movement, as of crickets or grasshoppers).
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pollen zone, equatorial current, reference soil group, floral subkingdom, standardized suffix, hollow phase, floral province, faithful species, indifferent species, faunal region, floral region, floral kingdom, floristic region, accidental species, ofa plant, exclusive species, climate classification, prefix derived, endemic genera, cloud classification, degenerate phase Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, South America, The Geography of the Flowering Plants, Soil Taxonomy, British Isles, North Atlantic, South Africa, Gulf Stream, New Guinea, Upton Warren, North Pacific, New Zealand, Atlantic Ocean, United States, Tertiary Period, Pacific Ocean, Soil Survey, West Africa, Palaeozoic Era, Boreal Realm, Iapetus Ocean, East Anglia, Kuroshio Current, United Nations, Galápagos Islands Browse Sample Pages:
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pollen zone, equatorial current, reference soil group, floral subkingdom, standardized suffix, hollow phase, floral province, faithful species, indifferent species, faunal region, floral region, floral kingdom, floristic region, accidental species, ofa plant, exclusive species, climate classification, prefix derived, endemic genera, cloud classification, degenerate phase Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India by David L. Haberman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- European Forests and Global Change: The Likely Impacts of Rising CO2 and Temperature by Paul G. Jarvis on page 94, and page 124
- Applied Ecology & Environmental Management by Edward I. Newman in Back Matter
- Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: DEPARTING FROM MARX by Timothy W. Luke on page 141
- Ecology of Arctic Environments: 13th Special Symposium of the British Ecological Society (Symposia of the British Ecological Society) by Sarah J. Woodin on page 134
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