★ Ecology: Global Insights and Investigations — 1st or 2nd Edition MANNING'S RECOMMENDED TEXT
This is the book named in the syllabus. Recommended, not required — Manning explicitly accepts either edition, so the cheaper used 1st edition is fine. Two reasons it matters beyond reading assignments: its end-of-chapter conceptual questions are the practice Manning specifically tells you to use for exams, and Stiling's "global insights / investigations" framing — real case studies and data-driven boxes — matches how his exams ask you to reason about processes rather than recite terms.
★ Ecology: The Economy of Nature — 8th Edition (2018) DOWNLOADED · OCR'd · embedded on site
The textbook embedded directly on this site — every chapter readable under Textbook, with 721 extracted figures and OCR-recovered content for image-only spreads. Not the recommended text, but it is the one fully searchable here, and its coverage maps cleanly onto the same unit sequence. 23 chapters spanning organismal adaptations through global biodiversity conservation. Use it as your on-hand reference and Stiling for the assigned reading and conceptual questions.
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Ecology — 4th Edition (2017)
Heavier on quantitative ecology + experimental design than Stiling. Use as a complement when you need derivation/math for population models or competition coefficients (Lotka-Volterra etc).
★ Ecology for All! — Open Textbook (free) CURRENT · readable in full on this site
This is the book the chapter pages on this site now serve — 24 chapters, in both readable text and the original PDF pages (toggle at the top of any chapter). Open-licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, so figures and summaries are legal to reuse with attribution. Note the older Cain/Bowman/Hacker and Ricklefs entries above are different books with different chapter numbering.
Writing guides (for the final project + lab reports)
Both are named in the syllabus. The final project is 15% of your grade and lab reports are a large share of the 40% lab portion — and remember, AI editing/revision is prohibited, so these are your actual revision tools.
- Jan A. Pechenik — A Short Guide to Writing about Biology (7th or 8th ed.)
- Josh Schimel — Writing Science
Dr. Manning's research (primary sources)
Freshwater and ecosystem ecology — stream nutrient dynamics (N & P), detritus-based food webs, organic-matter breakdown, and watershed land-use effects. Useful for the ecosystem/nutrient-cycling units, for the human–environment thread, and for citing in lab reports.
- David W. P. Manning — Google Scholar (full publication list)
- Transport of N and P in U.S. streams and rivers differs with land use and between dissolved and particulate forms
- ResearchGate profile
- UNomaha Biology faculty page
- UNomaha Environmental Studies page
- All UNomaha Biology faculty publications
Video courses
Anna's Archive notice
Anna's Archive (annas-archive.gl) is a search engine that aggregates open-access shadow libraries (Z-Library, LibGen, Sci-Hub). Some downloads may be in a copyright gray zone — use for reference; buy or library-borrow if you'll rely on the book long-term.
📚 Quick-jump · all chapters
Direct links to each chapter of Ecology for All! on this site. Every chapter page carries both the extracted text and the original PDF pages — switch with the toggle at the top.