Experimental Ecology
Issues and Perspectives
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 December 2001
- ISBN 9780195150421
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages488 pages
- Size 234x155x22 mm
- Weight 703 g
- Language English 0
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Long description:
Experimentation is a dominant approach in contemporary ecological research, pervading studies at all levels of biological organization and across diverse taxa and habitats. Experimental Ecology assembles an eminent group of ecologists who synthesize insights from these varied sources into a cogent statement about experimentalism as an analytical paradigm, placing experimentation within the larger framework of ecological investigation. The book discusses diverse experimental approaches ranging from laboratory microcosms to manipulation of entire ecosystem, illustrating the myriad ways experiments strengthen ecological inference. Experimental ecologists critique their science to move the field forward on all fronts: from better designs, to better links between experiments and theory, to more realism in experiments targeted at specific systems and questions.
"The ghost of Robert H. MacArthur continues to haunt community ecology. In the 1960s, MacArthur and his colleagues revolutionized community ecology by developing simple but effective models of species interactions based on the unifying principles of competitive exclusion and the ecological niche. . . . [T]he most profound challenge to MacArthur's work came from experimental ecologists. . . . [T]hese ecologists added and removed species in communities, monitored the result, and evaluated the models in this light. . . . Experimental ecology has since developed rapidly, and ecologists have carried out sophisticated manipulative experiments in terrestrial, marine, and freshwater habitats. Experimental Ecology . . . is an edited volume with 22 contributions from the leaders of experimental ecology. . . . This symposium volume gives a state-of-the-art look at experimental ecology. . . . [T]his book was thought-provoking and enjoyable. I highly recommend it to all ecologists." BioScience
Table of Contents:
Contributors
Ecological Experiments and a Research Program in Community Ecology
Ecological Experiments: Scale, Phenomenology, Mechanism, and the Illusion of Generality
Realism, Precision, and Generality in Experimental Ecology
The Desert Granivory Experiments at Portal
Experimental Compromise and Mechanistic Approaches to the Evolutionary Ecology of Interacting Daphnia Species
Experimentation, Observation, and Inference in River and Watershed Investigations
From Cattle Tanks to Carolina Bays: The Utility of Model Systems for Understanding Natural Communities
Have Field Experiments Aided in the Understanding of Abundance and Dynamics of Temperate Reef Fishes?
Ecological Experiments with Model Systems: The Ecotron Facility in Context
How Can We Compare the Importance of Ecological Processes If We Never Ask, "Compared to What?"
Insights and Application of Large-Scale, Long-Term Ecological Observations and Experiments
Ecology in a Bottle: Using Microcosms to Test Theory
The Interplay between Natural History and Field Experimentation
Using Models to Enhance the Value of Information from Observations and Experiments
Experimental Approaches to Studying the Population Dynamics and Evolution of Microorganisms
The Dual Role of Experiments in Complex and Dynamic Natural Systems
Design, Implementation and Analysis of Ecological and Environmental Experiments: Pitfalls in the Maintenance of Logical Structures
The Motivation for and Context of Experiments in Ecology
The Logic, Value, and Necessity of Grounding Experiments in Reality: an Essential Link in the Inferential Chain Back to Nature
Investigating Geographic Variation in Interactions Using Common Garden Experiments
Revelations and Limitations of the Experimental Approach for the Study of Plant-Animal Interactions
Experimental Approaches to the Study of Evolution
Index
