This Land Is Your Land : The Story of Field Biology in America / Michael J. Lannoo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lannoo, Michael J., author.

Series:

Chicago scholarship online.

Chicago scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biology--Fieldwork--United States--History.

Biology.

Biologists--United States--Biography.

Biologists.

Nature study--United States--History.

Nature study.

Conservation biology--United States--History.

Conservation biology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and their environments-an understanding gleaned only through field-based natural history. With this resurgence, modern field biologists find themselves asking fundamental existential questions such as: Where did we come from? What is our story? Are we part of a larger legacy? In This Land Is Your Land, seasoned field biologist Michael J. Lannoo answers these questions and more in a tale rooted in the people and institutions of the Midwest. It is a story told from the ground up, a rubber boot-based natural history of field biology in America. Lannoo illuminates characters such as John Wesley Powell, William Temple Hornaday, and Olaus and Adolph Murie-homegrown midwestern field biologists who either headed east to populate major research centers or went west to conduct their fieldwork along the frontier. From the pioneering work of Victor Shelford, Henry Chandler Cowles, and Aldo Leopold to contemporary insights from biologists such as Jim Furnish and historians such as William Cronon, Lannoo's unearthing of American-and particularly midwestern-field biologists reveals how these scientists influenced American ecology, conservation biology, and restoration ecology, and in turn drove global conservation efforts through environmental legislation and land set-asides. This Land Is Your Land reveals the little-known legacy of midwestern field biologists, whose ethos and discoveries have enabled us to preserve and understand not just their land, but all lands.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preamble

Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Foundation

The Natural Historians

The Ecologists

The Wildlife Biologists

The Conservation Biologists

The Restoration Biologists

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780226358505

022635850X

OCLC:

1037351978