As humans have come to dominate the earth, the ideal of studying and teaching ecology in pristine ecosystems has become impossible to achieve. Our planet is now a mosaic of ecosystems ranging from the relatively undisturbed to the completely built, with the majority of people living in urban environ[...]

Writing for freshman and sophomore life science majors, Adler (U. of Utah) emphasizes modeling, interpretation of results, basic biological processes, and the integration of calculus with probability and statistics.[...]