Fundamentals of Ecology

Fundamentals of Biogeography offers a fresh, up-to-date introduction to biogeography, explaining the ecology, geography, and history of animals and plants. The book defines and examines populations, communities and ecosystems –exploring where different animals live, and how populations grow, interact and survive. Stressing the role of ecological, geographical, historical and human factors in fashioning animal and plant distributions, Richard Huggett reveals how life adapts to its biological and physical surroundings. The book includes several sections on differing human attitudes towards nature, and how biogeography can affect conservation practice. As well as explaining key concepts and interactions, Huggett tackles many topical and controversial environmental and ethical concerns, including animal rights, species exploitation, habitat fragmentation, biodiversity, metapopulations, patchy landscapes and chaos.

The eighth edition of Fundameltals of Analytical Chemistry, like its predecessors is an introductory textbook designed primarily for a one- or two-semester course for chemistry majors. Since the publication of the seventh edition, the scope of analytical chemistry has continued to evolve, and in this edition we have included many applications to biology, medicine, materials science, ecology, forensic science and other related fields. The widespread use of computers for instructional purposes has led us to incorporate many spreadsheet applications, examples, and exercises. Our companion book Applications of Micrsoft Excel in Analytical Chemisty provides students with a tutorial guide for applying spreadsheets to analytical chemistry and introduces many additional spreadsheet operations. We also have added many current topics, such as atomic and molecular mass spectrometry, field-flow fractionation, and chiral chromatography. We have revised many older treatments to incorporate contemporary instrumentation and techniques. We recognize that courses in analytical chemistry vary from institution to institution and depend upon the available facilities the time allocated to analytical chemistry in the chemistry curriculum and the desires of individual instructors. We have therefore designed the eighth edition of Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry so that instructors can tailor the text to meet their needs and students can encounter the material on several levels, in descriptions, pictorials, illustrations, and interesting features.

For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has emerged as an exciting and rapidly expanding field, fuelled by advances in molecular phylogeny