The Ecology of Place
Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding
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Table of Contents
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
1 The Ecology of Place
Mary V. Price and Ian Billick
Mary V. Price and Ian Billick
1 The Imprint of Place on Ecology and Ecologists
Mary V. Price and Ian Billick
2 The Role of Place in the History of Ecology
Sharon Kingsland
3 Leopold’s Legacy: An Ecology of Place
Donald M. Waller and Susan Flader
2 The Idiosyncrasy of Place: Challenges and Opportunities
Ian Billick and Mary V. Price
4 Ecological Invariance and the Search for Generality in Ecology
H. Ronald Pulliam and Nickolas M. Waser
5 Convergence and Divergence in Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems: What We Can Learn by Comparing Similar Places
Philip W. Rundel
6 Ecological Insights into the Causes of an Adaptive Radiation from Long-Term Field Studies of Darwin’s Finches
Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant
7 Individual Fitness, Social Behavior, and Population Dynamics of Yellow-Bellied Marmots
Kenneth B. Armitage
8 The Aleutian Archipelago: Addressing the Functional Importance of Carnivory through Variation in Space and Time
James A. Estes
3 Building an Understanding of Place
Mary V. Price and Ian Billick
9 Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems: The Value of Place-Based Research
Barbara L. Peckarsky, J. David Allan, Angus R. McIntosh, and Brad W. Taylor
10 The Ecology of Place in Oak Forests: Progressive Integration of Pairwise Interactions into Webs
Richard S. Ostfeld and Clive G. Jones
11 A Sense of Place: Tatoosh
Robert T. Paine, J. Timothy Wootton, and Catherine A. Pfister
12 The Ecology of Place and Natural Resource Management: Examples from Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems
Charles G. Curtin
4 The Interaction between Local and General Understanding
Mary V. Price and Ian Billick
13 Case Studies and Ecological Understanding
Charles J. Krebs
14 Responsive Science: The Interplay of Theory, Observation, and Experiment in Long-Term, Place-Based Research
Svata M. Louda and Leon G. Higley
15 To Know a Tropical Forest: What Mechanisms Maintain High Tree Diversity on Barro Colorado Island, Panama?
Stephen P. Hubbell
5 Building the Capacity for Place-Based Research
Ian Billick and Mary V. Price
16 The Model Ecosystem as a Paradigm of Place-Based Research: The Intersection of Geology, Ecology, and Economics at the McLaughlin Reserve
Paul Aigner and Catherine E. Koehler
17 Managing Place-Based Data: The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory as a Case Study
Ian Billick
18 Local People, Scientific Inquiry, and the Ecology and Conservation of Place in Latin America
Peter Feinsinger, Samara Álvarez, Geovana Carreño, Edmundo Rivera, Rosa Leny Cuéllar, Andrew Noss, Félix Daza, Mireiza Figuera, Edith Lanz, Lainet García, Maikel Cañizares, Aylin Alegre, and Alejandra Roldán
19 Concluding Remarks: Taking Advantage of the Power of Place
Mary V. Price and Ian Billick
List of Contributors
Index
Review Quotes
F. N. Egerton | Choice
“An impressive volume, clearly presented and well integrated to show what has been achieved when ecologists study particular natural environments for long periods. . . . This excellent book is well suited for ecology seminar discussions. Highly recommended.”
Bulletin of the British Ecological Society
“The book is an exemplar for anyone wanting to bring together a coherent edited volume that is more than the sum of the parts. . . . [T]his excellent book offers a superb collection of reflective essays on the virtues of field-based ecology and scientific natural history. But it when you get fed up poring over journals devoid of the practical challenges and essential joy of being an ecologist.”
Eugene W. Schupp, Utah State University | Ecology
“[R]eading this book was extremely enjoyable, thought provoking, and inspirational. For an edited volume it is well integrated, partly by thoughtful and synthetic introductory and concluding chapters and partly by the fact that all contributions are high quality and reference each other where appropriate, which is frequent.”
Gordon H. Orians, University of Washington
“The Ecology of Place is an important and novel contribution to the literature that will stimulate much discussion among both ecological theoreticians and empiricists.”
Paul R. Ehrlich, president of the Center for Conservation Biology, Stanford University, and author of Humanity on a Tightrope
“The Ecology of Place brings together top names from the fields of ecology and evolutionary biology to offer a novel collection that considers how place-based research in ecology contributes to basic scientific understanding. The range of essays, as well as their quality, is noteworthy, and the subjects they cover are timely and important. A celebration of fieldwork and its insights, this book draws worthy attention to what the research of ecologists can tell us about our world.”
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