In revising textbooks one worries about the "dinosaur syndrome." Sometimes textbooks become so enlarged in successive editions that the brevity and simplicity that made them successful in the early editions is lost. Illustrative material and references have been more than doubled, and two-thirds of the figures and tables are new to the third edition. All chapters from the second edition have been extensively revised three completely new chapters have been added to Part 1, and Part 3 has been completely rewritten. Thus, to many persons ecology now stands for the study of "the totality of man and environment." Although the same general format which students and teachers found useful in the previous edition has been retained, the third edition is greatly expanded and updated in light of the inereasing importance of the subject in human affairs. People in general have accepted the root meaning of the word "ecology," which refers to the whole environmental "house" in which we live. The holistic approach and ecosystem theory, as emphasized in the first two editions of this book, are now matters of world-wide concern.
Practice has caught up with theory in ecology. ODUM – Alumni Foundation Professor of Zoology – University of Georgia – Athens, GeorgiaįUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY 1971 ( Third Edition ) : W. No further update, only historical document of botanical science!Įugene P. ODUM - Fundamentals of Ecologyīotany online 1996-2004. Contemporary and engaging, this text brings clarity and specificity to the study of ecology in the twenty-first century.Botany online - The Internet Hypertextbook - Prefaces - Eugene P. Also, a final chapter entitled "Statistical Thinking for Students of Ecology" provides a quantitative synthesis to the field of statistics. In keeping with a greater temporal/spatial approach to ecology, new chapters in landscape ecology, regional ecology, and global ecology have been added building on the levels-of-organization hierarchy. The text retains its classic holistic approach to ecosystem science, but incorporates and integrates an evolutionary approach as well. This Fifth Edition of FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY is co-authored by Odum's protege Gary Barrett and represents the last academic text Odum produced.
FUNDAMENTALS OF ECOLOGY was first published in 1953 and was the vehicle Odum used to educate a wide audience about ecological science. The late Eugene Odum was a pioneer in systems ecology and is credited with bringing ecosystems into the mainstream public consciousness as well as into introductory college instruction.
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