Textbooks

  • Soil Ecology

    A concise, readable overview of soil ecology in my voice. Since so much is poorly known in soil science and so much is being learned all the time, I’d love any feedback about ways the textbook could be improved or corrected. Note, I do not cite my sources as well as I should - email me for references.

  • Study Design and Statistics

    A concise, readable overview of the important considerations in designing scientific studies and analyzing data. Valid for any discipline but perhaps only interesting for ecologists and their ilk.

  • Ecology

    Not your standard ecology textbook! I take a somewhat idiosyncratic view of things and believe ecology and evolution make the most sense within the context of Darwinian fitness. I touch on philosophy, big history, and the ways that our human umwelt (way of perceiving the world given our species’ ecology) influences (sometimes for better but mostly for worse) our assumptions and understanding of ecology. I’d love to get feedback, good or bad!