The ecology of place
Subtitle: contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding
By: edited by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price
Contributors: Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780226050423; 9780226050430
Subjects: Longitudinal studies; Ecology; Congresses; Research
Notes: "Papers of the scientific symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory"--CIP data.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The ecology of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick; title: The imprint of place on ecology and ecologists / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick; title: The role of place in the history of ecology / Sharon Kingsland; title: Leopold's legacy: an ecology of place / Don Waller and Susan Flader; title: The idiosyncrasy of place: challenges and opportunities / Ian Billick and Mary V. Price; title: Ecological invariance and the search for generality in ecology / H. Ronald Pulliam and Nickolas M. Waser; title: Convergence and divergence in mediterranean-climate ecosystems: what we can learn by comparing similar places / Philip W. Rundel; title: Ecological insights into the causes of an adaptive radiation from long-term field studies of Darwin's finches / Peter Grant and Rosemary Grant; title: Individual fitness, social behavior, and population dynamics of yellow-bellied marmots / Kenneth B. Armitage; title: The Aleutian archipelago: addressing the functional importance of carnivory through variation in space and time / James A. Estes; title: Building an understanding of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick; title: 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; title: The ecology of place in oak forests: progressive integration of pairwise interactions into webs / Richard S. Ostfeld and Clive G. Jones; title: A sense of place: Tatoosh / Robert T. Paine, J. Timothy Wootton, and Catherine A. Pfister; title: The ecology of place and natural resource management / Charles G. Curtin; title: The interaction between local and general understanding / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick; title: Case studies and ecological understanding / Charles J. Krebs; title: Responsive science: the interplay of theory, observation, and experiment in long-term, place-based research / Svata M. Louda and Leon G. Higley; title: To know a tropical forest: what mechanisms maintain high tree diversity on Barro Colorado Island, Panama? / Stephen P. Hubbell; title: Building the capacity for place-based research / Ian Billick and Mary V. Price; title: 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; title: Managing place-based data: the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory as a case study / Ian Billick; title: 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; title: Concluding remarks: taking advantage of the power of place / Mary V. Price and Ian Billick.