Have you considered skipping the "middlemen" and going straight to the primary sources? Chicago Univ Press' FOUNDATIONS OF ECOLOGY has key papers on succession by Clements & Gleason, they also have Tansley's original Ecosystem paper, Odum's (now rather silly) "Strategy of Ecosystem Development" (I would suggest Drury & Nisbet's "Succession" as an antidote) and the HSS "World is Green" paper. follow all that up with some choice pieces by Frank Egler, Dan Janzen, Fakri Bazazz, Joe Connell's "Ghost of Competition Past" and other stuff from the 1970's, etc. and you have a kick ass class. Honestly, Undergrads can deal with primary stuff WAY better than getting the run-around in increasingly watered down textbooks & it is REALLY important that they see that their science actually HAS a history. It is a crying shame that Allee Emerson Park Park and Schmidt devoted nearly a hundred pages of THEIR text to the History of Ecology back in 1950 (when Ecology was barely a pup) but a modern text tries to get by with a cute pic of Darwin and half a page of hand-waving...
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 8:48 PM, VOLTOLINI <jcvol...@uol.com.br> wrote: > > Dear friends, > > I am preparing classes about Ecosystem Ecology using classic text books > like Begon et al and Ricklefs but after reading several chapters I am > feeling these books don’t have a good introduction to the subject when > thinking about undergraduate students. > > Ricklefs (Economy of Nature) includes four chapters (19, 22, 23, 24) about > succession and energy but not one with a good introduction about structure > and function and I am feeling the same about Townsend et al (Essentials of > Ecology) with two chapters (11, 12) about energy and matter flow and > biogeochemical cycles and also the same about Begon et al (Ecology: From > individuals to ecosystems) with four chapters (17, 18, 20, 22) exploring > subjects like energy and matter flow, food webs and applied ecology. > > Differently, more specific books like Ecosystem Ecology by Jørgensen > includes the first 140 pages with a good introduction, Fundamentals of > Ecosystem Science by Weathers and Strayer also includes the first 92 pages > with an introduction and the last I read was Principles of Terrestrial > Ecosystem Ecology by Chapin and Matson with 17 pages introducing ecosystems. > > I would like to receive other impressions as well suggestions about > teaching ecosystem ecology! > > Thanks > > > Prof. Dr. J. C. VOLTOLINI > Grupo de Pesquisa e Ensino em Biologia da Conservação - ECOTROP > Universidade de Taubaté, Departamento de Biologia Taubaté, SP. > E-Mail: jcvol...@uol.com.br > * Grupo de pesquisa ECOTROP CNPq: http://dgp.cnpq.br/ > buscaoperacional/detalhepesq.jsp?pesq=8137155809735635 > * Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8137155809735635 > * Assessoria Estatística: http://assessoria-estatistica.blogspot.com.br/ > * Fotos de Cursos e Projetos: https://www.facebook.com/ > ecotrop/photos_albums -- John Anderson W.H. Drury Professor of Ecology/Natural History College of the Atlantic 105 Eden St Bar Harbor ME 04609
