A fine intro Ecology text is Ricklefs "The Economy of Nature". It's more community-based than some others, but for a small text it covers the basics pretty well. I have the second edition, but there appears to be a fifth with updated data analysis... at the price they're selling it for, I might just pick up a copy myself.
while you'd be hard-pressed to find a 'new' copy for under $98, the resellers on Amazon have both new (dozens) and used (100's) copies ranging from $28 to $3! here's a link: http://tinyurl.com/ms9nb4 cheers David ____________________________________________________ David A. La Puma Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, & Natural Resources Plant Physiology Building 1 College Farm Road Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1582 websites: http://www.woodcreeper.com http://badbirdz2.wordpress.com photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/woodcreeper Lockwood lab: http://rci.rutgers.edu/~jlockwoo On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:44 AM, joseph gathman <[email protected]> wrote: > Laws, Theories, and Patterns in Ecology
