Download or read book Continuing Life Processes Ecology and Evolution written by Rachel Heeney and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete text and workbook package for NCEA Level 3 Biology Continuing Life Processes, Ecology and Evolution presents material in a way that meets the needs of all groups of students, allowing them to understand the important principles of biology and how the scientific process works. Each of the Achievement Standards for NCEA Level 3 Biology is covered with an emphasis on gaining a solid understanding of the principles and processes involved.
Download or read book Continuing Life Processes Ecology and Evolution Workbook written by Rachel Heeney and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Processes written by Rachel Heeney and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life processes ecology and evolution workbook will give those working at NCEA Level 2 an understanding of the level of answer required, and the opportunity to find out what they know and what they need to keep working on. The workbook includes a wide range of questions, from multiple choice, cloze activity and true/false exercises through to in-depth discussions and practical activities. A full answers section is included.
Download or read book Life Processes written by Rachel Heeney and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of Life Processes, Ecology and Evolution is to present material in a way that meets the needs of all students. This unique text- and workbook will help students understand the important principles of biology, learn how the scientific process works, and become confident to embrace the potential biology offers our society. Each of the Achievement Standards are covered with an emphasis on gaining a solid understanding of the principles and processes involved. The book offers a great variety of activities from relevant contexts and, importantly for students, there is enough room for the answers! Each topic is explored fully, and there are two NCEA-style exams per externally assessed standard. The internals are also covered with ideas and tips for unpacking the meaning of the standard, so students can gain success and enjoy learning about biology issues, investigations and diversity. When students work through this book they will end up with a complete package of notes, definitions, worked examples and exam practice. It has been designed to be used at home, for homework or as a developing set of notes in class. The teacher can meld this into their classroom practice any way they choose.
Download or read book Life Processes written by Rachel Heeney and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been written specifically to cover the aims of the New Zealand Curriculum (NZC), including the nature of science objectives, key competencies, and Level 2 achievement standards for Biology. It aims to present material in a way that meets the needs of all groups of students and will allow all students to understand the important principles of biology, to understand how the scientific process works and to be confident enough to embrace the potential biology offers our society.
Download or read book Ecology and Evolution of Communities written by Martin L. Cody and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of species abundance and diversity; Competitive strategies of resource allocation; Community structure; Outlook.
Download or read book Ecology and Evolution of Cancer written by Beata Ujvari and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecology and Evolution of Cancer is a timely work outlining ideas that not only represent a substantial and original contribution to the fields of evolution, ecology, and cancer, but also goes beyond by connecting the interfaces of these disciplines. This work engages the expertise of a multidisciplinary research team to collate and review the latest knowledge and developments in this exciting research field. The evolutionary perspective of cancer has gained significant international recognition and interest, which is fully understandable given that somatic cellular selection and evolution are elegant explanations for carcinogenesis. Cancer is now generally accepted to be an evolutionary and ecological process with complex interactions between tumor cells and their environment sharing many similarities with organismal evolution. As a critical contribution to this field of research the book is important and relevant for the applications of evolutionary biology to understand the origin of cancers, to control neoplastic progression, and to prevent therapeutic failures. Covers all aspects of the evolution of cancer, appealing to researchers seeking to understand its origins and effects of treatments on its progression, as well as to lecturers in evolutionary medicine Functions as both an introduction to cancer and evolution and a review of the current research on this burgeoning, exciting field, presented by an international group of leading editors and contributors Improves understanding of the origin and the evolution of cancer, aiding efforts to determine how this disease interferes with biotic interactions that govern ecosystems Highlights research that intends to apply evolutionary principles to help predict emergence and metastatic progression with the aim of improving therapies
Download or read book Niche Construction written by F. John Odling-Smee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-22 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The seemingly innocent observation that the activities of organisms bring about changes in environments is so obvious that it seems an unlikely focus for a new line of thinking about evolution. Yet niche construction--as this process of organism-driven environmental modification is known--has hidden complexities. By transforming biotic and abiotic sources of natural selection in external environments, niche construction generates feedback in evolution on a scale hitherto underestimated--and in a manner that transforms the evolutionary dynamic. It also plays a critical role in ecology, supporting ecosystem engineering and influencing the flow of energy and nutrients through ecosystems. Despite this, niche construction has been given short shrift in theoretical biology, in part because it cannot be fully understood within the framework of standard evolutionary theory. Wedding evolution and ecology, this book extends evolutionary theory by formally including niche construction and ecological inheritance as additional evolutionary processes. The authors support their historic move with empirical data, theoretical population genetics, and conceptual models. They also describe new research methods capable of testing the theory. They demonstrate how their theory can resolve long-standing problems in ecology, particularly by advancing the sorely needed synthesis of ecology and evolution, and how it offers an evolutionary basis for the human sciences. Already hailed as a pioneering work by some of the world's most influential biologists, this is a rare, potentially field-changing contribution to the biological sciences.
Download or read book Evolution and Ecology written by K. D. Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-12-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mechanisms of macroevolutionary change are a contentious issue. Paleoecological evidence, presented in this book, shows that evolutionary processes visible in ecological time cannot be used to predict macroevolutionary trends, contrary to Darwin's original thesis. The author discusses how climatic oscillations on ice-age timescales are paced by variations in the Earth's orbit, and have thus been a permanent feature of Earth history. There is, however, little evidence for macroevolutionary change in response to these climatic changes, suggesting that over geological time, macroevolution does not occur as a result of accumulated short term processes. These conclusions are used to construct a postmodern evolutionary synthesis in which evolution and ecology play an equal role. Written by a leading paleoecologist, this book will be of interest to researchers in both ecology and evolutionary biology.
Download or read book Integrative Organismal Biology written by Lynn B. Martin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrative Organismal Biology synthesizes current understandings of the causes and consequences of individual variation at the physiological, behavioral and organismal levels. Emphasizing key topics such as phenotypic plasticity and flexibility, and summarizing emerging areas such as ecological immunology, oxidative stress biology and others, Integrative Organismal Biology pulls together information from diverse disciplines to provide a synthetic view of the role of the individual in evolution. Beginning with the role of the individual in evolutionary and ecological processes, the book covers theory and mechanism from both classic and modern perspectives. Chapters explore concepts such as phenotypic plasticity, genetic and epigenetic variation, physiological and phenotypic variation, homeostasis, and gene and physiological regulatory networks. A concluding section interweaves these concepts through a series of case studies of life processes such as aging, reproduction, and immune defense. Written and edited by leaders in the field, Integrative Organismal Biology will be an important advanced textbook for students and researchers across a variety of subdisciplines of integrative biology.
Download or read book Ecology Evolution Biodiversity and Conservation written by Kelsey Malone and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of study that focuses on the interactions among organisms and their environment is called ecology. It is a branch of biology that overlaps with the disciplines of genetics, ethology and evolutionary biology. The applications of ecology are prevalent in the fields of conservation biology, city planning, wetland management, community health, natural resource management and human social interaction. The understanding of evolution, biodiversity and the need for conservation is vital for a complete understanding of ecology. Adaptation, natural selection, inheritance, populations and life history are some of the concepts intrinsic to both evolutionary biology and ecology. Biodiversity is the variety of life and life's processes. It encompasses the genetic differences among living organisms, the ecosystems and communities they inhabit and the evolutionary and ecological processes required for their subsistence. The conservation and management of biodiversity requires innovative approaches to address the ecological scope of biodiversity. This book contains some path-breaking studies in the field of ecology. It is a valuable compilation of topics, ranging from the basic to the most complex theories and insights in evolution, biodiversity and conservation. It is an essential guide for both academicians and those who wish to pursue this discipline further.
Download or read book Fundamental Processes in Ecology written by David M Wilkinson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-09-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamental Processes in Ecology presents a way to study ecosystems that is not yet available in ecology textbooks but is resonant with current thinking in the emerging fields of geobiology and Earth System Science. It provides an alternative, process-based classification of ecology and proposes a truly planetary view of ecological science. To achieve this, it asks (and endeavours to answer) the question, "what are the fundamental ecological processes which would be found on any planet with Earth-like, carbon based, life?" The author demonstrates how the idea of fundamental ecological processes can be developed at the systems level, specifically their involvement in control and feedback mechanisms. This approach allows us to reconsider basic ecological ideas such as energy flow, guilds, trade-offs, carbon cycling and photosynthesis; and to put these in a global context. In doing so, the book puts a much stronger emphasis on microorganisms than has traditionally been the case. The integration of Earth System Science with ecology is vitally important if ecological science is to successfully contribute to the massive problems and future challenges associated with global change. Although the approach is heavily influenced by Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, this is not a popular science book about Gaian theory. Instead it is written as an accessible text for graduate student seminar courses and researchers in the fields of ecology, earth system science, evolutionary biology, palaeontology, history of life, astrobiology, geology and physical geography.
Download or read book Relentless Evolution written by John N. Thompson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a few decades ago. In Relentless Evolution, John N. Thompson explores why adaptive evolution never ceases and why natural selection acts on species in so many different ways. Thompson presents a view of life in which ongoing evolution is essential and inevitable. Each chapter focuses on one of the major problems in adaptive evolution: How fast is evolution? How strong is natural selection? How do species co-opt the genomes of other species as they adapt? Why does adaptive evolution sometimes lead to more, rather than less, genetic variation within populations? How does the process of adaptation drive the evolution of new species? How does coevolution among species continually reshape the web of life? And, more generally, how are our views of adaptive evolution changing? Relentless Evolution draws on studies of all the major forms of life—from microbes that evolve in microcosms within a few weeks to plants and animals that sometimes evolve in detectable ways within a few decades. It shows evolution not as a slow and stately process, but rather as a continual and sometimes frenetic process that favors yet more evolutionary change.
Download or read book Year Book written by Carnegie Institution of Washington and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "List of the names of persons engaged in the various activities": v. 10, p. 243-257.
Download or read book ICSE Biology Book I For Class IX written by Sarita Aggarwal and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-labelled illustrations, diagrams, tables, figures and experiments have been given to support the text, wherever necessary. At the end of each chapter, Key Terms have been given. A variety of Review Questions, according to the latest examination pattern, has been provided for adequate practice.
Download or read book Mitonuclear Ecology written by Geoffrey E. Hill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel text provides a concise synthesis of how the interactions between mitochondrial and nuclear genes have played a major role in shaping the ecology and evolution of eukaryotes. The foundation for this new focus on mitonuclear interactions originated from research in biochemistry and cell biology laboratories, although the broader ecological and evolutionary implications have yet to be fully explored. The imperative for mitonuclear coadaptation is proposed to be a major selective force in the evolution of sexual reproduction and two mating types in eukaryotes, in the formation of species, in the evolution of ornaments and sexual selection, in the process of adaptation, and in the evolution of senescence. The book highlights the importance of mitonuclear coadaptation to the evolution of complex life and champions mitonuclear ecology as an important subdiscipline in ecology and evolution.
Download or read book Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea written by Paul Falkowski and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-08-31 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea reference examines how photosynthesis evolved on Earth and how phytoplankton evolved through time – ultimately to permit the evolution of complex life, including human beings. The first of its kind, this book provides thorough coverage of key topics, with contributions by leading experts in biophysics, evolutionary biology, micropaleontology, marine ecology, and biogeochemistry.This exciting new book is of interest not only to students and researchers in marine science, but also to evolutionary biologists and ecologists interested in understanding the origins and diversification of life. Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea offers these students and researchers an understanding of the molecular evolution, phylogeny, fossil record, and environmental processes that collectively permits us to comprehend the rise of phytoplankton and their impact on Earth's ecology and biogeochemistry. It is certain to become the first and best word on this exhilarating topic. Discusses the evolution of phytoplankton in the world's oceans as the first living organisms and the first and basic producers in the earths food chain Includes the latest developments in the evolution and ecology of marine phytoplankton specifically with additional information on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles The only book to consider of the evolution of phytoplankton and its role in molecular evolution, biogeochemistry, paleontology, and oceanographic aspects Written at a level suitable for related reading use in courses on the Evolution of the Biosphere, Ecological and Biological oceanography and marine biology, and Biodiversity
