Ecology

Ecology is an underdisciplinary science and extends to diverse fields such as Zoology, Botany, Earth Science and Geography. The present title is an effort to summarize the basic concept and principles of the subject, to present the elementary factual information with which a person to be competent in the field should be familiar, and to show how these principles and facts may be applied in a practical way to the interests and welfare of man. Although the book relates especially to animals, enough material given covering plants to bring out their essential place in the system of nature and to emphasize the bioecological point of view.