Includes bibliographical references and index.

Accounting for nature -- Agriculture -- Air pollution and greenhouse gases -- Alternative fuels -- Amazon Deforestation -- Amazon River -- Amphibians -- Anthropocentrism -- Antienvironmentalism -- Aquifers -- Balance of nature -- Beach erosion and sand mining -- Bees and other pollinators -- Biocentrism -- Biodiversity -- Biodiversity action plans -- Biogeography -- Biomagnification -- Biomes -- Biopesticides and bioassays -- Bioprospecting and biopiracy -- Bioregionalism -- Bioremediation -- Biosphere -- Boreal and cloud forests -- Brownfields -- Carbon cycle and carbon footprint -- Carbon dioxide air capture -- Carbon trade -- Carcinogens -- Cattle -- Clean Air Act -- Clean Water Act -- Climate Change -- Climate change and human health -- Climate change skeptics -- Conference of the Parties -- Coral reefs -- Cultural ecology -- Dams and reservoirs -- Dead zones -- Deep ecology -- Deforestation -- Desalination -- Deserts and dunes -- Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT) -- Drought -- Dust Bowl disaster -- Earth Day -- Eat Local movement -- Ecocentrism -- Eco-fashion -- Ecofeminism -- Ecological economics -- Ecological footprint -- Ecology as concept and in history -- Ecotourism -- Electronic waste -- Endangered species -- Environmental determinism -- Environmental ethics -- Environmental justice and racism -- Erosion -- Estuaries -- Fisheries -- Floodplains -- Fossil fuels -- Genetic modification -- Glacial melting -- Global warming -- Globalization -- Grasslands -- Green buildings -- Groundwater pollution -- Habitat destruction -- Hazardous wastes -- Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) -- Indicator species -- Intergenerational Environmental Justice -- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) -- International Nature Preservation Policies -- Land-use policy -- Light pollution -- Marine life -- National forests -- National parks -- Noise pollution -- Nuclear accidents -- Nuclear power industry -- Ocean debris -- Oceans and rising temperatures -- Oil drilling -- Oil shale and tar sands -- Oil spills -- Organic farming and gardening -- Ozone layer -- Population -- Population control and social justice -- Recycling -- Renewable energy -- Rising sea levels -- Road systems -- Severe and anomalous weather -- Smog and heavy metals -- Species loss and the Sixth Extinction -- Tidal energy -- Tragedy of the commons -- Urban rain gardens and greenbelts -- Urban sprawl and urban ecology -- Water pollution -- Watersheds -- Wetlands -- Wilderness areas -- Wildlife refuges -- Wind energy.

This book considers how organizations of the same species interact with each other, how organisms of different species in the same space interact, and how multiple communities interact to make up an ecosystem, information crucial in understanding how biodiversity affects ecological function.