Ecology: Plants, Animals, and the Environment

Ecology: Plants, Animals, and the Environment
ISBN-10
0816061009
ISBN-13
9780816061006
Series
Ecology
Category
Ecology
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
2010
Publisher
Infobase Publishing
Author
Michael Allaby

Description

Traces the history of ecology and how the field has developed into a scientific discipline, including information on conservation, sociobiology, and environmentalism.

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