本书共分为三大部分，第一部分为生态学专业英语基础阅读，选编的文章根据生命系统结构层次进行分类，通过这部分的学习，读者能够掌握该领域的基本词汇和写作方法。第二部分为生态学专业英语提升篇，通过这部分的学习，不仅能够提高读者的阅读能力，而且能够使读者了解生态学研究前沿。第三部分为常用外文数据库介绍及SCI论文写作技巧，该部分结合案例详细地介绍了SCI论文各部分的写作技巧并把作者发表论文中遇到的问题和积累的经验一并献给读者。
本书可作为高等院校生态学相关专业本科生和研究生的专业英语教材，也可供相关研究领域的科研人员阅读。

Part I Base Components 基础篇
Unit 1 Autecology
Lesson 1 Biotic and abiotic components
Lesson 2 Soil supports diverse and abundant life
Lesson 3 Plants exhibit adaptations to variations in nutrient availability
Unit 2 Population ecology
Lesson 4 Population size and density
Lesson 5 Species distribution
Lesson 6 Population dynamics
Lesson 7 Life history theory
Unit 3 Community ecology
Lesson 8 The role of species within communities
Lesson 9 Species with a large impact on community structure
Lesson 10 Effects ofbiogeography on community diversity
Lesson 11 Ecological succession
Unit 4 Ecosystem ecology
Lesson 12 Energy flow in ecosystems
Lesson 13 Biogeochemical cycles
Lesson 14 Ecosystem dynamics
Lesson 15 Ecosystem services
Lesson 16 Evolution and natural selection in ecosystems
Unit 5 Global change ecology
Lesson 17 Global change: an overview
Lesson 18 Human impact and ecosystem degradation
Lesson 19 Impacts of global change on human society
Lesson 20 Biodiversity and climate change
Lesson 21 Global climate change and risk assessment: invasive species
Part Ⅱ Promotion Components 提升篇
Unit 6 Studies on autecology ecology
Lesson 22 Growth and yield stimulation under elevated CO2 and drought: a meta-analysis on crops
Lesson 23 Mycorrhizal associations of trees have different indirect effects on organic matter decomposition
Lesson 24 Effects of enhanced UV-B radiation on the nutritional and active ingredient contents during the floral development of medicinal chrysanthemum
Lesson 25 Interactive effects of temperature andpCQ on sponges: from the cradle to the grave
Lesson 26 Salinity influences arsenic resistance in the xerohalophyte Atriplex atacamensis Phil
Unit 7 Studies on population ecology
Lesson 27 Climate, invasive species and land use drive population dynamics of a cold-water specialist
Lesson 28 Does movement behaviour predict population densities? A test with 25 butterfly species
Lesson 29 Anthropogenic-driven rapid shifts in tree distribution lead to increased dominance of broadleaf species
Lesson 30 Species' traits influenced their response to recent climate change
Lesson 31 Genetic diversity affects the strength of population regulation in a marine fish
Unit 8 Studies on community ecology
Lesson 32 Levels and limits in artificial selection of communities
Lesson 33 Effects of temperature variability on community structure in a natural microbial food web
Lesson 34 Size-balanced community reorganization in response to nutrien and warming
Lesson 35 Functional trait diversity across trophic levels determines herbivore impact on plant community biomass
Lesson 36 Resource pulses can alleviate the biodiversity-invasion relationship in soil microbial communities
Unit 9 Studies on ecosystem ecology
Lesson 37 Energy flows in ecosystems--relationships between predator and prey biomass are remarkably similar in different ecosystems
Lesson 38 Diversity increases carbon storage and tree productivity in Spanish forests
Lesson 39 Biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning change along environmental stress gradients
Lesson 40 Disturbances catalyze the adaptation of forest ecosystems to changing climate conditions
Lesson 41 Elevated CO2 and temperature increase soil C losses from a soybean-maize ecosystem
Unit 10 Studies on global change ecology
Lesson 42 Mycorrhizal status helps explain invasion success of alien plan1 species
Lesson 43 Genetically informed ecological niche models improve climate change predictions
Lesson 44 Nitrogen deposition and greenhouse gas emissions from grasslands: uncertainties and future directions
Lesson 45 Climate change is not a major driver of shifts in the geographical distributions of North American birds
Lesson 46 Temperature impacts