Note: Intro -- The Princeton Guide to Ecology -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Part I Autecology -- I.1 Ecological Niche -- I.2 Physiological Ecology: Animals -- I.3 Physiological Ecology: Plants -- I.4 Functional Morphology: Muscles, Elastic Mechanisms, and Animal Performance -- I.5 Habitat Selection -- I.6 Dispersal -- I.7 Foraging Behavior -- I.8 Social Behavior -- I.9 Phenotypic Plasticity -- I.10 Life History -- I.11 Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems -- I.12 Geographic Range -- I.13 Adaptation -- I.14 Phenotypic Selection -- I.15 Population Genetics and Ecology -- I.16 Phylogenetics and Comparative Methods -- I.17 Microevolution -- I.18 Ecological Speciation: Natural Selection and the Formation of New Species -- I.19 Adaptive Radiation -- Part II Population Ecology -- II.1 Age-Structured and Stage-Structured Population Dynamics -- II.2 Density Dependence and Single-Species Population Dynamics -- II.3 Biological Chaos and Complex Dynamics -- II.4 Metapopulations and Spatial Population Processes -- II.5 Competition and Coexistence in Plant Communities -- II.6 Competition and Coexistence in Animal Communities -- II.7 Predator-Prey Interactions -- II.8 Host-Parasitoid Interactions -- II.9 Ecological Epidemiology -- II.10 Interactions between Plants and Herbivores -- II.11 Mutualism and Symbiosis -- II.12 Ecology of Microbial Populations -- II.13 Coevolution -- Part III Communities and Ecosystems -- III.1 Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns, and Measurement -- III.2 Competition, Neutrality, and Community Organization -- III.3 Predation and Community Organization -- III.4 Facilitation and the Organization of Plant Communities -- III.5 Indirect Effects in Communities and Ecosystems: The Role of Trophic and Nontrophic Interactions -- III.6 Top-Down and Bottom-Up Regulation of Communities. , III.7 The Structure and Stability of Food Webs -- III.8 Spatial and Metacommunity Dynamics in Biodiversity -- III.9 Ecosystem Productivity and Carbon Flows: Patterns across Ecosystems -- III.10 Nutrient Cycling and Biogeochemistry -- III.11 Terrestrial Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles -- III.12 Freshwater Carbon and Biogeochemical Cycles -- III.13 The Marine Carbon Cycle -- III.14 Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning -- III.15 Ecological Stoichiometry -- III.16 Macroecological Perspectives on Communities and Ecosystems -- III.17 Alternative Stable States and Regime Shifts in Ecosystems -- III.18 Responses of Communities and Ecosystems to Global Changes -- III.19 Evolution of Communities and Ecosystems -- Part IV Landscapes and the Biosphere -- IV.1 Landscape Dynamics -- IV.2 Landscape Pattern and Biodiversity -- IV.3 Ecological Dynamics in Fragmented Landscapes -- IV.4 Biodiversity Patterns in Managed and Natural Landscapes -- IV.5 Boundary Dynamics in Landscapes -- IV.6 Spatial Patterns of Species Diversity in Terrestrial Environments -- IV.7 Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in Landscapes -- IV.8 Seascape Patterns and Dynamics of Coral Reefs -- IV.9 Seascape Microbial Ecology: Habitat Structure, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Function -- IV.10 Spatial Dynamics of Marine Fisheries -- Part V Conservation Biology -- V.1 Causes and Consequences of Species Extinctions -- V.2 Population Viability Analysis -- V.3 Principles of Reserve Design -- V.4 Building and Implementing Systems of Conservation Areas -- V.5 Marine Conservation -- V.6 Conservation and Global Climate Change -- V.7 Restoration Ecology -- Part VI Ecosystem Services -- VI.1 Ecosystem Services: Issues of Scale and Trade-Offs -- VI.2 Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Ecosystem Services -- VI.3 Beyond Biodiversity: Other Aspects of Ecological Organization. , VI.4 Human-Dominated Systems: Agroecosystems -- VI.5 Forests -- VI.6 Grasslands -- VI.7 Marine Ecosystem Services -- VI.8 Provisioning Services: A Focus on Fresh Water -- VI.9 Regulating Services: A Focus on Disease Regulation -- VI.10 Support Services: A Focus on Genetic Diversity -- VI.11 The Economics of Ecosystem Services -- VI.12 Technological Substitution and Augmentation of Ecosystem Services -- VI.13 Conservation of Ecosystem Services -- Part VII Managing the Biosphere -- VII.1 Biological Control: Theory and Practice -- VII.2 Fisheries Management -- VII.3 Wildlife Management -- VII.4 Managing the Global Water System -- VII.5 Managing Nutrient Mobilization and Eutrophication -- VII.6 Managing Infectious Diseases -- VII.7 Agriculture, Land Use, and the Transformation of Planet Earth -- VII.8 The Ecology, Economics, and Management of Alien Invasive Species -- VII.9 Ecological Economics: Principles of Economic Policy Design for Ecosystem Management -- VII.10 Governance and Institutions -- VII.11 Assessments: Linking Ecology to Policy -- Milestones in Ecology -- Glossary -- Index.