Ecology and our endangered life-support systems
Eugene P. Odum.
- 2nd ed.
- Sunderland, Mass. Sinauer Associates c1993.
- xiv, 301 p. ill. 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue: the flight of Apollo -- Life-support environment -- Levels of organization -- Ecosystem -- Energetics -- Material cycles and physical conditions of existence -- Population ecology -- Development and evolution -- Major ecosystem types of the world -- Epilogue: the transition from youth to maturity.