📚 Ecology

How species and ecosystems depend on one another — energy flow, food webs, competition, and the balance a single removal can undo.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject ecology in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology	George W. Ware	1995	87
	Animal ecology	Charles S. Elton	1927	32
	Environmental science	G. Tyler Miller	1986	31
	The Edge of the Sea	Rachel Carson	1955	28
	Environmental science	Eldon D. Enger	1986	21
	Pond & river (DK Eyewitness Books)	Steve Parker	1988	21
	Ecology	Charles J. Krebs	1972	18
	Das geheime Leben der Bäume	Peter Wohlleben	2015	18
	Environmental science	Bernard J. Nebel	1987	17
	The biology of fungi	C. T. Ingold	1961	15
	Teaching a Stone to Talk	Annie Dillard	1982	15
	Ecology	Manuel C. Molles	1999	15
	Ecology	Robert E. Ricklefs	1973	13
	Quantitative plant ecology	P. Greig-Smith	1957	12
	Ecology and field biology	Robert Leo Smith	1966	12
	Post-scarcity anarchism	Murray Bookchin	1971	12
	The Song of the Dodo	David Quammen	1996	11
	Elements of Ecology	Robert Leo Smith	2001	9
	Fundamentals of ecology	Eugene Pleasants Odum	1953	8
	Why big fierce animals are rare	Paul A. Colinvaux	1978	8
	Welcome to the green house	Jane Yolen	1993	8
	The Magic School Bus Hops Home	Joanna Cole	1995	8
	All kinds of habitats	Sally Hewitt	1998	8
	I see a kookaburra!	Robin Page	2005	8
	Introduction to plant ecology	Maurice Ashby	1961	7
	Microbial ecology	Ronald M. Atlas	1981	7
	Tree of Life	Barbara Bash	1989	7
	Ecology	Peter D. Stiling	1996	7
	Gets All Dried Up	Joanna Cole	1996	7
	Essentials of ecology	Colin R. Townsend	2002	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 06 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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