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Ecology

Here are entered works on the interrelationships of organisms and their environment, including other organisms. Works on the composite of physical, biological, and social sciences concerned with the conditions of the environment and their effects are entered under Environmental sciences. Works on the relationship of humans to the natural environment are entered under Human ecology. Works on the relationship of humans to their sociocultural environment are entered under Social ecology.

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• Population biology

• Ecology -- Alaska
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• Ecology -- Arctic regions
• Ecology -- Australia
• Ecology -- Bibliography
• Ecology -- China
• Ecology -- Congresses
• Ecology -- Economic aspects
• Ecology -- Hawaii
• Ecology -- History
• Ecology -- Juvenile literature
• Ecology -- Latin America
• Ecology -- Maryland
• Ecology -- Nepal
• Ecology -- Periodicals
• Ecology -- Philosophy
• Ecology -- Polar regions
• Ecology -- Religious aspects
• Ecology -- Research
• Ecology -- Study and teaching
• Ecology -- Tropics
• Ecology -- United States
• Agricultural ecology
• Animal ecology
• Animal-plant relationships
• Applied ecology
• Aquatic ecology
• Arid regions ecology
• Bioclimatology
• Biogeochemical cycles
• Biotic communities
• Chemical ecology
• Coastal ecology
• Conservation biology
• Ecological disturbances
• Ecology in literature
• Ecophysiology
• Ecosystem health
• Ecotheology
• Extreme environments
• Fire ecology
• Forest ecology
• Global environmental change
• Grassland ecology
• Habitat (Ecology)
• Household ecology
• Human ecology
• Indicators (Biology)
• Island ecology
• Landscape ecology
• Life zones
• Microbial ecology
• Microclimatology
• Paleoecology
• Plant ecology
• Radioecology
• Range ecology
• Soil ecology
• Upland ecology
• Wetland ecology
• American bison -- Ecology
• American dipper -- Ecology
• American wildcelery -- Ecology
• Bacteria -- Ecology
• Birds -- Ecology
• Cowbirds -- Ecology
• Coyote -- Ecology
• Crops -- Ecology
• Cryptogams -- Ecology
• Daphnia -- Ecology
• Elk -- Ecology
• Feral dogs -- Ecology
• Fishes -- Ecology
• Fungi -- Ecology
• Goshawk -- Ecology
• Grasses -- Ecology
• Gulls -- Ecology
• Invasive plants -- Ecology
• Mammals -- Ecology
• Prairie animals -- Ecology
• Primates -- Ecology
• Rodents -- Ecology
• Threespine stickleback -- Ecology
• Tsetse-flies -- Ecology
• Ungulates -- Ecology

• Balance of nature
• Biology -- Ecology
• Bionomics
• Ecological processes
• Ecological science
• Ecological sciences
• Environmental biology
• Environment
• Oecology

• Issues in Risk Assessment (1993), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Principles of Field Biology and Ecology (New York et al.: McGraw-Hill, 1958), by Allen H. Benton and William E. Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ecology in Development: A Rationale for Three-Dimensional Policy, by Brian Spooner (HTML at UNU Press)
• Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem-Solving: Concepts and Case Studies (1986), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Antarctic Science in the Global Context, 2000-2005 (second edition, 2001), by British Antarctic Survey (PDF in the UK)

• Arctic Pollution Issues: A State of the Arctic Environment Report (1997), by Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (illustrated HTML in Norway)

• The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: Sustainable Management of Changing Environments, ed. by Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto (HTML at UNU Press)

• Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (partial serial archives)
• Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (full serial archives)
• BMC Ecology (2001-) (full serial archives)
• Ecoprint: An International Journal of Ecology (issues online 2004-) (partial serial archives)
• Ecology (partial serial archives)
• Whole Earth (1997-2002; with related publications) (partial serial archives)
• Our Nature: An International Biological Journal (partial serial archives)
• Whole Earth Review (1985-1996; with related publications) (partial serial archives)

• The Eye of the Crocodile (Canberra: ANU E Press, c2012), by Val Plumwood, ed. by Lorraine Shannon (multiple formats with commentary at ANU Press)
• Dancing Shiva in the Ecological Age (Delhi: Clarion Books, 1991), by Henryk Skolimowski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environmental Philosophy (Monograph series #2; Dept. of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1980), ed. by D. S. Mannison, M. A. McRobbie, and Richard Sylvan (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Fragile Tropics of Latin America: Sustainable Management of Changing Environments, ed. by Toshie Nishizawa and Juha I. Uitto (HTML at UNU Press)

• Manage Insects on Your Farm: A Guide to Ecological Strategies (Beltsville, MD: Sustainable Agriculture Network, 2005), by Miguel A. Altieri, Clara I. Nicholls, and Marlene Fritz (PDF at sare.org)
• Ecologically Based Pest Management: New Solutions for a New Century (1996), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• AWARE: Our World, Our Water (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA: Project AWARE, c2009), by Project AWARE (PDF at projectaware.org)

• Bioclimatics: A Science of Life and Climate Relations (USDA miscellaneous publication #280; Washington: GPO, 1938), by A. D. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Biological Nitrogen Fixation: Research Challenges; A Review of Research Grants Funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development, by National Research Council Board on Science and Technology for International Development (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Chemical Ecology: The Chemistry of Biotic Interaction (1995), ed. by Thomas Eisner and Gerrold Meinwald (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Conservation Biology for All (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), ed. by Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrlich (PDF with commentary at conbio.org)
• Conservation Research, Policy and Practice (Cambridge, UK et al: Cambridge University Press, c2020), ed. by William J. Sutherland, Peter N. M. Brotherton, Zoe G. Davies, Nancy Ockendon, Nathalie Pettorelli, and Juliet A. Vickery (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• What Works in Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2021), ed. by William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Silviu O. Petrovan, and Rebecca K. Smith (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• What Works in Conservation (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), ed. by William J. Sutherland, Lynn V. Dicks, Nancy Ockendon, and Rebecca K. Smith (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895-1941 (London et al.: Bloomsbury Academic, c2018), by John Claborn
  • HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury Collections
  • PDF at oapen.org
• Greenwor(l)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1999), by Diana M. A. Relke (PDF files at University of Calgary)
• Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2013), ed. by Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley (PDF at University of Calgary)
• Green Speculations: Science Fiction and Transformative Environmentalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), by Eric C. Otto (PDF at Ohio State)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Romanticism and Ecology (2001), ed. by James C. McKusick (PDF at Romantic Circles)

• Encyclical Letter, Laudato Si', of the Holy Father Francis, on Care for Our Common Home (in multiple languages; 2015), by Pope Francis (HTML and PDF at the Vatican)

• Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Philippe Daniel Tortell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Climate Alarmism Reconsidered (2004), by Robert L. Bradley (PDF with commentary at IEA)
• Death of the PostHuman ("Essays on Extinction v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Claire Colebrook (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Global Environment Outlook, GEO-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2019), ed. by Paul Elkins, Joyeeta Gupta, and Pierre Boileau (PDF files with commentary at Cambridge University Press)
• Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Heather M. Davis and E. Turpin (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), ed. by E. Turpin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment (2 volumes, 2017-2018), by U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009- )
  • Volume I (Climate Science Special Report): illustrated HTML at globalchange.gov
  • Volume II (Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States): illustrated HTML and PDF files at globalchange.gov
• Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ed. by Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Cleaner Energy, Cooler Climate: Developing Sustainable Energy Solutions for South Africa (2009), by Harald Winkler (PDF with commentary at OpenUCT)
• Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ucar.edu)
• Impacts of a Warming Arctic: Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (2004), by Susan Hassol (PDF files in Norway)
• Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)

• Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), by Joanna Zylinska (HTML and video with commentary at umn.edu)
• Nerd Ecology: Defending the Earth with Unpopular Culture (London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), by Anthony Lioi (HTML with commentary at Bloomsbury)
• Complex Science for a Complex World: Exploring Human Ecosystems with Agents (c2006), ed. by Pascal Perez and David F. Batten (multiple formats with commentary at ANU E Press)
• Earth 2020: An Insider's Guide to a Rapidly Changing Planet (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), ed. by Philippe Daniel Tortell (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Whole Earth Ecolog: The Best of Environmental Tools and Ideas (c1990), ed. by J. Baldwin, contrib. by Stewart Brand (page images at wholeearth.info)
• Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols (London: Open Humanities Press, 2016), by Tom Cohen, Claire Colebrook, and J. Hillis Miller (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (2014), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files with commentary at ipcc-wg2.gov)
• Nature Inc.: Environmental Conservation in the Neoliberal Age (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, c2014), ed. by Bram Büscher, Wolfram Heinz Dressler, and Robert Fletcher (PDF with commentary at Open Arizona)
• Ecocene Politics (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2022), by Mihnea Tanasescu (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Our Synthetic Environment (published under Lewis Herber pseudonym; New York: Knopf, 1962), by Murray Bookchin, contrib. by William A. Albrecht (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death of the PostHuman ("Essays on Extinction v1"; Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Claire Colebrook (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology (Cambridge, MA: Addison-Wesley Press, 1949), by George Kingsley Zipf (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Voice in the Wilderness: Conversations with Terry Tempest Williams (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2006), by Terry Tempest Williams, ed. by Michael Austin, illust. by Lee Carlman Riddell (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)
• Space in the Tropics: From Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana (Berkeley: University of California Press, c2000), by Peter Redfield (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Our Common Future (1987), by World Commission on Environment and Development (HTML at eytv4scf.net)
• Food Environment Education: Agricultural Education in Natural Resource Management, by Lindsay J. Falvey (HTML at Melbourne)
• Man and the Earth, by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler (HTML at LOC)
• Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)
• Reworking Success (electronic edition), by Robert Theobald (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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