Features

New to This Edition

For the 10th edition we have created stand-alone chapters on Global Climates (Chapter 2) and Global Climate Change (Chapter 3). These chapters provide the foundation for students to understand subsequent discussions of global change that is now woven into all of the subsequent chapters. We have also added an emphasis on the diversity of ecologists in the world by featuring more research of underrepresented groups in STEM and adding lots of photos of researchers so students can see a wide diversity of people doing the science of ecology. Finally, with the recent growth in merging Western science and Indigenous knowledge, we have also included a new emphasis of ecological research that teaches students about the unmatched, long-term contributions of Indigenous peoples that is increasingly informing our science.

SNew Working with Ecological Data: Calculating Climate Anomalies. Students use real data to plot temperature anomalies over time and evaluate if presenting data in this fashion helps communicate how climate is changing (Chapter 3).

• New Ecology Today: Embracing Indigenous Knowledge and “Two-Eyed Seeing” to Understand Climate Change. Description of the research effort to understand changes to Alaskan ecosystems as informed by Indigenous knowledge, which provides a longer time horizon than otherwise available to Western science (Chapter 3).
• New Ecological Problem-Solving: The Melting Polar Ice Cap. Students plot and evaluate the most current data on ice loss in the Arctic (Chapter 3). ome examples include: