This full-color illustrated textbook offers the first comprehensive introduction to all major aspects of tropical ecology. I have recently completed a text, Tropical Ecology, that was published by Princeton University Press in May 2011. While reviewing the different conceptual angels that are necessary to grasp the ecology of the world's tropics, many well-chosen examples illustrate the need to be aware of countless 'descriptive' facts and phenomena before theories can be used to explain them. 'Tropical Ecology by John Kricher unifies both perspectives to a great textbook.
