COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS 2ND EDITION
6,289.26₹ 7,861.57₹
Hurry up! Offer ends in:
- Author: JOHN H. ANDREWS
- ISBN: 9781493968954
- Availability: In Stock
Buy COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF MICROORGANISMS 2ND EDITION | Technical Books, New Arrivals
This second edition textbook offers an expanded conceptual
synthesis of microbial ecology with plant and animal ecology. Drawing on
examples from the biology of microorganisms and macroorganisms, this textbook
provides a much-needed interdisciplinary approach to ecology. The focus
is the individual organism and comparisons are made along six axes: genetic variation,
nutritional mode, size, growth, life cycle, and influence of the environment.
When it was published in 1991, the first edition of Comparative Ecology of Microorganisms and
Macroorganisms was unique in its attempt to clearly compare
fundamental ecology across the gamut of size. The explosion of molecular
biology and the application of its techniques to microbiology and organismal
biology have particularly demonstrated the need for interdisciplinary
understanding. This updated and expanded edition remains unique. It
treats the same topics at greater depth and includes an exhaustive compilation
of both the most recent relevant literature in microbial ecology and
plant/animal ecology, as well as the early research papers that shaped the
concepts and theories discussed. Among the completely updated topics in the
book are phylogenetic systematics, search algorithms and optimal foraging
theory, comparative metabolism, the origins of life and evolution of
multicellularity, and the evolution of life cycles.