A Synthetic Review of Several Major Ecology Textbooks

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This article reviews several ecology texts within the categories of neoclassical, modernist, and post-modern approaches. The results of an informal survey of readers of ECOLOG-L (an electronic bulletin board for people to discuss acedemic ecology) concerning this topic is presented.

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Primary or BEN resource type	Teaching strategies & guidelines
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Format	pdf
Ecological Core Concept	The science of ecology
Drought & Water-Ecosystem Services Collection	Off
Conservation Targets Under Global Change Collection	Off
Big Data Collection	Off
Editor's Choice	No
Audience	Undergraduate upper division 15-16 Undergraduate lower division 13-14
Pedagogical Use Description	It should be used as a resource for teachers to evaluate the most appropriate ecology textbook to use in their classroom.
Keywords	textbook evaluation, ecology 101
Life science discipline (subject)	Ecology
Primary Author Controlled Name	William J. Ehmann Stuart K. Allison John Mull Aaron Ellison
Primary Author Affiliation	Central College, Trinity College, Mount Holyoke College, Northeast Missouri State University
Primary Author email	n/a
Rights	Author retains copyright
Resource Editor	Unknown
Reviewer A	Unknown
Reviewer B	Unknown
Date Of Record Submission	1996-04-01

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Subject: Comment On: A Synthetic Review of Several Major Ecology Textbooks

Posted By: ckleier

Date Posted: 2011-10-25 13:53:26

While this is great, it needs to be done again. This article was published in 1996, and a few good texts have come to market since then, most notably Cain, Bowman, and Hacker, which isn't reviewed.