EVALUATION

This chapter's Evaluation section pulls together the whole sweep of Principles of Ecology — from the definitions and hierarchy of ecology, through habitat/niche and ecological equivalents, the four classes of ecological factors (climatic, edaphic, topographic, biotic), the five categories of plant ecological adaptation (hydrophytes, xerophytes, mesophytes, epiphytes, halophytes), and finally the mechanisms of seed and fruit dispersal. Working through it in order is a good way to check that every one of those threads has genuinely been understood, not just memorised in isolation, since several questions (for example, the interaction-id …