The ecology of place : contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding / edited by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Billick, Ian, 1966-

Price, Mary V. (Mary Vaughan), 1949-

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ecology--Longitudinal studies--Congresses.

Ecology.

Ecology--Research--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (479 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so few ecologists and so many systems to study, generalizations are essential. But how do you extrapolate knowledge about a well-studied area and apply it elsewhere? Through a range of original essays written by eminent ecologists and naturalists, The Ecology of Place explores how place-focused research yields exportable general knowledge as well as practical local knowledge, and how society can facilitate ecological understanding by investing in field sites, place-centered databases, interdisciplinary collaborations, and field-oriented education programs that emphasize natural history. This unique patchwork of case-study narratives, philosophical musings, and historical analyses is tied together with commentaries from editors Ian Billick and Mary Price that develop and synthesize common threads. The result is a unique volume rich with all-too-rare insights into how science is actually done, as told by scientists themselves.

Contents:

The ecology of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick

The imprint of place on ecology and ecologists / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick

The role of place in the history of ecology / Sharon Kingsland

Leopold's legacy: an ecology of place / Don Waller and Susan Flader

The idiosyncrasy of place: challenges and opportunities / Ian Billick and Mary V. Price

Ecological invariance and the search for generality in ecology / H. Ronald Pulliam and Nickolas M. Waser

Convergence and divergence in mediterranean-climate ecosystems: what we can learn by comparing similar places / Philip W. Rundel

Ecological insights into the causes of an adaptive radiation from long-term field studies of Darwin's finches / Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant

Individual fitness, social behavior, and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots / Kenneth B. Armitage

The Aleutian archipelago: addressing the functional importance of carnivory through variation in space and time / James A. Estes

Building an understanding of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick

Understanding the role of predation in open systems: the value of place-based research / Barbara L. Peckarsky, J. David Allan, Brad W. Taylor, and Angus R. Mcintosh

The ecology of place in oak forests: progressive integration of pairwise interactions into webs / Richard S. Ostfeld and Clive G. Jones

A sense of place: Tatoosh / Robert T. Paine, J. Timothy Wootton, and Catherine A. Pfister

The ecology of place and natural resource management / Charles G. Curtin

The interaction between local and general understanding / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick

Case studies and ecological understanding / Charles J. Krebs

Responsive science: the interplay of theory, observation, and experiment in long-term, place-based research / Svata M. Louda and Leon G. Higley

To know a tropical forest: what mechanisms maintain high tree diversity on Barro Colorado Island, Panama? / Stephen P. Hubbell

Building the capacity for place-based research / Ian Billick and Mary V. Price

The model ecosystem as a paradigm of place-based research: the intersection of geology, ecology, and economics at the Mclaughlin Reserve / Paul Aigner and Cathy Koehler

Managing place-based data: the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory as a case study / Ian Billick

Local people, scientific inquiry, and the ecology and conservation of place in Latin America / Peter Feinsinger, Samara Alvarez, Geovana Carreno, Edmundo Rivera, Rosa Leny Cuellar, Andrew Noss, Felix Daza, Mireiza Figuera, Lainet Garcia, Maikel Canizares, Aylin Alegre, and Alejandra Roldan

Concluding remarks: taking advantage of the power of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick.

Notes:

"Papers of the scientific symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory"--CIP data.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613058102

9781283058100

1283058103

9780226050447

0226050440

OCLC:

703138017