Experimental ecology
Subtitle: issues and perspectives
By: edited by William J. Resetarits, Jr., Joseph Bernardo.
Contributors: Resetarits, William J.; Bernardo, Joseph, 1963-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Experimental ecology
Notes: Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ecological experiments and a research program in community ecology / Earl E. Werner; title: Ecological experiments: scale, phenomenology, mechanism, and the illusion of generality / Arthur E. Dunham and Steven J. Beaupre; title: Realism, precision, and generality in experimental ecology / Peter J. Morin; title: The desert granivory experiments at Portal / James H. Brown; title: Experimental compromise and mechanistic approaches to the evolutionary ecology of interacting Daphnia species / Mathew A. Leibold & Alan J. Tessier; title: Experimentation, observation, and interference in river and watershed investigations / Mary E. Power, William E. Dietrich, & Kathleen O. Sullivan; title: From cattle tanks to Carolina bays: the utility of model systems for understanding natural communities / William J. Resetarits, Jr. & John E. Fauth; title: Have field experiments aided in the understanding of abundance and dynamics of temperate reef fishes? / Sally J. Holbrook & Russell J. Schmitt; title: Ecological experiments with model systems: the Ecotron facility in context / John H. Lawton; title: How can we compare the importance of ecological processes if we never ask, "compared to what?" / Peter S. Petraitis; title: Insights and application of large-scale, long-term ecological observations and experiments / David M. Lodge, Steven C. Blumenshine, & Yvonne Vadeboncoeur; title: Ecology in a bottle: using microcosms to test theory / Sharon P. Lawler; title: The interplay between natural history and field experimentation / Gary A. Polis ... [et al.]; title: Using models to enhance the value of information from observations and experiments / Elizabeth A. Marschall & Bernadette M. Roche; title: Experimental approaches to studying the population dynamics and evolution of microorganisms / J.A. Mongold; title: The dual role of experiments in complex and dynamic natural systems / Barbara L. Peckarsky; title: Design, implementation and analysis of ecological and environmental experiments: pitfalls in the maintenance of logical structures / A.J. Underwood; title: The motivation for and context of experiments in ecology / J. Timothy Wootton and Catherine A. Pfister; title: The logic, value, and necessity of grounding experiments in reality: an essential link in the inferential chain back to nature / Joseph Bernardo; title: Investigating geographic variation in interactions using common garden experiments / John E. Fauth; title: Revelations and limitations of the experimental approach for the study of plant-animal interactions / Robert J. Marquis and Christopher J. Whelan; title: Experimental approaches to the study of evolution / Joseph Travis and David N. Reznick.