Part I Introduction
Chapter 1 Ecology: Meaning and Scope

Part II The Physical Environment Chapter 2 Solar Radiation and Climate
Chapter 3 The Physical Environment
Chapter 4 Soils

Part III The Organism and Its Environment
Chapter 5 Adaptation
Chapter 6 Plant Adaptations to the Environment I: Photosynthesis and the Light Environment
Chapter 7 Plant Adaptations to the Environment II: Thermal, Moisture, and Nutrient Environments
Chapter 8 Animal Adaptations to the Environment
Chapter 9 Decomposition

Part IV Intraspecific Populations Ecology
Chapter 10 Properties of Populations
Chapter 11 Population Growth
Chapter 12 Intraspecific Competition: Population Regulation
Chapter 13 Life History Patterns

Part V Population Interactions
Chapter 14 Interspecific Competition
Chapter 15 Concepts of Predation
Chapter 16 Predators and Their Prey
Chapter 17 Coevolutionary Interactions: Parasitism and Mutualism
Chapter 18 Human Impacts on Populations

Part VI Ecological Genetics
Chapter 19 Population Genetics

Part VII The Community
Chapter 20 Community Structure
Chapter 21 Community Dynamics
Chapter 22 Processes Controlling Community Dynamics
Chapter 23 Landscape Ecology

Part VIII The Ecosystem
Chapter 24 Ecosystem Productivity
Chapter 25 Biogeochemistry I: Nutrient Cycling
Chapter 26 Biogeochemistry II: Global Cycles and Human Impacts
Chapter 27 Biogeography of Ecosystems

Part IX Comparative Ecosystem Ecology
Chapter 28 Grassland to Tundra
Chapter 29 Forests
Chapter 30 Freshwater Ecosystems
Chapter 31 Saltwater Ecosystems
Chapter 32 Global Environmental Change