About the Author

Charles Krebs is Emeritus Professor of Zoology at the University of British Columbia and Professor in Ecology at the Institute for Applied Ecology, University of Canberra. He is author of Ecology: the Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance (fifth edition) and Ecological Methodology (second edition), among other books.

Reviews

"A lively overview ... that can be used to teach both science majors and non-science majors at the college level... Written in a nontechnical language, yet it covers the history of ecology and its scientific methodology accurately and lucidly."--Bioscience "Provides clear explanations of the major ideas in ecology."--Ecology