abundance
biology
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essay collection
evolutionary change
exportable general knowledge
field sites
field-oriented education programs
financial support
funding
historical analyses
interdisciplinary collaborations
natural history
naturalists
organisms
original essays
philosophical musings
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science
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- ISBN 9780226050423
- Weight: 765g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 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 V. 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.
Ian Billick is executive director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Colorado. Mary V. Price is professor emerita of biology at the University of California, Riverside.
