Contents

pp v-xi

List of contributors

pp xii-xiii

Preface

pp xiv-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

Theme 1 - What is environmental biology?

pp 1-1

1 - Environmental biology and our time

pp 2-20

Theme 2 - The scientific method and the unifying theories of modern biology

pp 21-22

2 - Science and the environment

pp 23-42

3 - Cell theory I – the cellular basis of life

pp 43-64

4 - Cell theory II – cellular processes and the environment

pp 65-87

5 - Cell theory III – the cell cycle

pp 88-112

6 - Evolutionary theory – the origin and fate of genetic variation

pp 113-137

7 - The history of life on Earth

pp 138-158

Theme 3 - Applying scientific method – understanding biodiversity

pp 159-159

8 - Coping with cornucopia – classifying and naming biodiversity

pp 160-181

9 - Microscopic diversity – the prokaryotes and viruses

pp 182-201

10 - Mysterious diversity – the protists (including the fungi)

pp 202-227

11 - Plant diversity I – the greening of the land

pp 228-252

12 - Plant diversity II – the greening of the land

pp 253-285

13 - Life on the move I – introducing animal diversity

pp 286-303

14 - Life on the move II – the spineless majority

pp 304-334

15 - Life on the move III – vertebrates and other chordates

pp 335-360

Theme 4 - Applying scientific method – biodiversity and the environment

pp 361-362

16 - Boom and bust – population ecology

pp 363-383

17 - Living together – communities and ecosystems

pp 384-408

18 - Marine habitats

pp 409-430

19 - Marine lifestyles

pp 431-451

20 - Inland aquatic environments I – wetland diversity and physical and chemical processes

pp 452-480

21 - Inland aquatic environments II – the ecology of lentic and lotic waters

pp 481-500