Table of Contents

Preface
List of illustrations
1: What is ecology?
2: History of ecology
3: Principles and theories
4: The big questions
5: Applied ecology
6: Ecology in culture and politics
7: The future of ecology
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Jaboury Ghazoul is Professor of Ecosystem Management at ETH Zurich, and Director of the Centre for Sustainable Forests and Landscapes at the University of Edinburgh. As a tropical forest ecologist, Jaboury has worked in Southeast Asia, India, southern Africa, and Costa Rica and Colombia. He has published several previous books on tropical ecology and forests, including Forests: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2015)

Reviews

Overall, this is a good starting point to get acquainted with ecology by being synthetic and easy to read; it would be a good resource also for undergraduate students.
*Conservation Biology *

This is a good starting point to get acquainted with ecology by being synthetic and easy to read.
*Society for Conservation Biology*