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The ecology of place : contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding

Author: Ian Billick; Mary V Price; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Ecology of place.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010
(DLC) 2010015030
(OCoLC)587209652
Material Type: Conference publication, Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Ian Billick; Mary V Price; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory.
ISBN: 9780226050447 0226050440
OCLC Number: 703174945
Notes: "Papers of the scientific symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory"--CIP data.
Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 464 pages) : illustrations
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 Álvarez, Geovana Carreño, Edmundo Rivera, Rosa Leny Cuellar, Andrew Noss, Félix Daza, Mireiza Figuera, Lainet García, Maikel Cañizares, Aylin Alegre, and Alejandra Roldán --
Concluding remarks: taking advantage of the power of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick.
Responsibility: edited by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price.

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