The drawing of the osprey (from the Michigan Breeding-bird Atlas) is by Thomas Ford, an artist working in the Sleeping Bear-Grand Traverse Bay area of Michigan.

Principles of Ecology, 1979, W.B. Saunders Co., 299 pp.

A Laboratory and Field Manual of Ecology (with Margaret T. McCann), 1982, Saunders College Publishing, 269 pp.

Proceedings of the Eighth North American Prairie Conference (with Harvey E. Ballard, Jr., Lucy S. Brewer, and Christy Fox), 1983, Western Michigan University Department of Biology, 176 pp.

Principi di Ecologia (Italian edition of Principles of Ecology), 1986, Piccin Nuova Libraria, 336 pp.

The Science of Ecology, 1991, Saunders College Publishing, 936 pp.

The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Michigan (with Raymond J. Adams, Jr., and Gail A. McPeek), 1991, Michigan State University Press, 594 pp.

The Science of Ecology, second edition, 1994, Saunders College Publishing, 790 pp.

Conservancy: The Land Trust Movement in America, 2003, Dartmouth College/University Press of New England, 348 pp. (Paperback edition, 2004)