Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. viii, 319 pages : illustrations; 30 cm

Uniform title

1. Scientific American.

Subject

1. Ecology
2. Evolution (Biology)
3. Biotic communities
4. Biology
5. Evolution
6. Biological Evolution
7. Biology
8. Ecology
9. evolution
10. biology
11. ecology
12. Evolution
13. Biotic communities
14. Ecologia

Genre/Form

1. Collected Work

Contents

1. Genetic load / Wills -- Sickle cells and evolution / Allison -- 'Genetic drift' in an Italian population / Cavalli-Sforza -- The structure and history of an ancient protein / Dickerson -- The social order of turkeys / Watts and Stokes -- Darwin's finches / Lack -- The desert pupfish / Brown -- The geography of birds / Welty -- Continental drift and the fossil record / Hallam -- Continental drift and evolution / Kurten -- The probability of death / Deevey -- Population density and social pathology / Calhoun -- The aerial migration of insects / Johnson -- Population control in animals / Wynne-Edwards -- Butterflies and plants / Ehrlich and Raven -- Weed control by insect / Holloway -- Desert ground squirrels / Bartholomew and Hudson -- Ecological chemistry / Brower -- Cleaning symbiosis / Limbaugh -- The fungus gardens of insects / Batra and Batra -- Symbiosis and evolution / Margulis -- The biosphere / Hutchinson -- The energy cycle of the biosphere / Woodwell -- The human crop / Deevey -- The carbon cycle / Bolin -- The nitrogen cycle / Delwiche -- The nature of oceanic life / Isaacs -- Trace-element deserts / Anderson and Underwood -- The nutrient cycles of an ecosystem / Bormann and Likens -- Toxic substances and ecological cycles / Woodwell -- Bogs / Deevey -- The life of a sand dune / Amos -- The ecology of fire / Cooper -- Life on human skin / Marples.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. [311]-315.