| Description |
xiv, 905 pages : illustrations, charts ; 25 cm |
| Summary |
Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Part One - Foundational Papers -- Defining Ecology as a Science -- Sharon E. Kingsland -- 1. Stephen A. Forbes (1887) -- The Lake as a Microcosm -- (Bulletin of the Peoria Scientific Association, pp. 77-87. Reprinted in the Bulletin of the Illinois State Natural History Survey 15 (1925): 537-50 -- 2. Henry Chandler Cowles (1899) -- The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan -- The Botanical Gazette 27 : 97-117, 167-202, 281-308, 361-91 -- 3. Frederic E. Clements (1936) -- Nature and Structure of the Climax -- The Journal of Ecology 24 : 252-84 -- 4. H. A. Gleason (1926) -- The Individualistic Concept of the Plant Association -- Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 53 : 7-26 -- 5. Joseph Grinnell (1917) -- The Niche-Relationships of the California Thrasher -- The Auk 34 : 427-33 -- 6. A. J. Nicholson and V. A. Bailey (1935) -- The Balance of Animal Populations, Part I Proceeding of the Zoological Society, London, no. 3, pp. 551-98 -- Part Two - Theoretical Advances -- The Role of Theory in the Rise of Modern Ecology -- Leslie A. Real and Simon A. Levin -- 8. Frank W. Preston (1962) The Canonical Distribution of Commonness and Rarity, Part I Ecology 43 : 185-215, 431-32 -- 9. G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1957) -- Concluding Remarks -- Population Studies: Animal Ecology and Demography. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology 22 : 415-27 -- 10. Lamont C. Cole (1954) -- The Population Consequences of Life History Phenomena -- The Quarterly Review of Biology 29 : 103-37 -- 11. Robert M. May (1974) -- Biological Populations with Non-Overlapping Generations: Stable Points, Stable Cycles, and Chaos -- Science 186 : 645-47 -- 12. Robert H. MacArthur and Eric R. Pianka (1966) -- On Optimal Use of a Patchy Environment -- The American Naturalist 100 : 603-9 -- 13. Vito Volterra (1926) -- Fluctuations in the Abundance of a Species Considered Mathematically -- Nature 118 : 558-60 -- 14. J. G. Skellam (1951) Random Dispersal in Theoretical Populations -- Biometrika 38 : 196-218 -- Part Three - Theses, Antitheses, and Syntheses -- Conversational Biology and Ecological Debate -- Joel G. Kingsolver and Robert T. Paine -- 15. A. G. Tansley (1935) -- The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts and Terms -- Ecology 16 : 284-307 -- 16. G. E. Hutchinson (1959) -- Homage to Santa Rosalia; or, Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals? -- The American Naturalist 93 : 145-59 -- 17. Nelson G. Hairston, Frederick E. Smith, and Lawrence B. Slobodkin (1960) -- Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition -- The American Naturalist 94 : 421-25 -- 18. Paul R. Ehrlich and Peter H. Raven (1964) -- Butterflies and Plants: A Study in Coevolution -- Evolution 18 : 586-608 -- 19. J. L. Harper (1967) -- A Darwinian Approach to Plant Ecology -- The Journal of Ecology 55 : 247-7--20. Thomas W. Schoener (1971) -- Theory of Feeding Strategies -- Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 2 : 369-404 -- Part Four - Methodological Advances -- New Approaches and Methods in Ecology -- James H. Brown -- 21. Lennart von Post (1967 [1916]) -- Forest Tree Pollen in South Swedish Peat Bog Deposits -- Pollen et Spores 9 : 378-401. A translation by Margaret Bryan Davis and Knut Faegri of Om skogstradspollen i sydsvenska torfmosselagerfolijder (foredragsreferat) (Geolgiska Foereningen i Stockholm. Foerhandlingar 38 : 384-34), with an introduction by Knut Faegri and Johs. Iversen -- 22. P. H. Leslie (1945) On the Use of Matrices in Certain Population Mathematics -- Biometrika 33 : 183-212 -- 23. L. C. Birch (1948) -- The Intrinsic Rate of Natural Increase of an Insect Population -- The Journal of Animal Ecology 17 : 15-26 24. C. S. Holling (1959) The Components of Predation as Revealed by a Study of Small Mammal Predation of the European Pine Sawfly -- The Canadian Entomologist 91 : 293-320 -- 25. Warren P. Porter and David M. Gates (1969) -- Thermodynamic Equilibria of Animals with Environment -- Ecological Monographs 39 : 227-44 -- 26. J. Roger Bray and J. T. Curtis (1957) An Ordination of the Upland Forest Communities of Southern Wisconsin -- Ecological Monographs 27 : 325-49 -- 27. Eugene P. Odum (1969) -- The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -- Science 164 : 262-70 -- Part Five - Case Studies in Natural Systems -- Lessons from Nature: Case Studies in Natural Systems -- Robert K. Peet -- 28. J. Davidson and H. G. Andrewartha (1948) -- The Influence of Rainfall, Evaporation and Atmospheric Temperature on Fluctuations in the Size of a Natural Population of Thrips Imaginis (Thysanoptera) The Journal of Animal Ecology 17 : 200-222 -- 29. John M. Teal (1962) Energy Flow in the Salt Marsh Ecosystem of Georgia -- Ecology 43 : 614-24 -- 30. Margaret B. Davis (1969) -- Climatic Changes in Southern Connecticut Recorded by Pollen Desposition at Rogers Lake -- Ecology 50 : 409-22 -- 31. Alex S. Watt (1947) -- Pattern and Process in the Plant Community -- The Journal of Ecology 35 : 1-22 -- 32. Robert H. MacArthur (1958) -- Population Ecology of Some Warblers of Northeastern Coniferous Forests -- Ecology 39 : 599-619 -- 33. John Langdon Brooks and Stanley I. Dodson (1965) -- Predation, Body Size, and Composition of Plankton -- Science 150 : 28-35 -- Part Six - Experimental Manipulations in Lab and Field Systems -- Manipulative Experiments as Tests of Ecological Theory -- Jane Lubchenco and Leslie A. Real -- 34. H. B. D. Kettlewell (1955) -- Selection Experiments on Industrial Melanism in the Lepidoptera -- Heredity 9 :323-42 -- 35. Thomas Park (1948) -- Experimental Studies of Interspecies Competition. I. Competition between Populations of the Flour Beetles, Tribolium confusum Duvall and Tribolium castaneum Herbst -- Ecological Monographs 18 : 267-307 36. C. B. Huffaker (1958) -- Experimental Studies on Predation: Dispersion Factors and Predator-Prey Oscillations -- Hilgardia 27 : 343-83 -- 37. Joseph H. Connell (1961) The Influence of Interspecific Competition and Other Factors on the Distribution of the Barnacle Chthamalus stellatus -- Ecology 42 : 710-23 -- 38. Robert T. Paine (1966) -- Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity -- The American Naturalist 100 : 65-75 -- 39. Daniel S. Simberloff and Edward O. Wilson (1969) -- Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands -- Ecology 50 : 278-96 -- 40. Gene E. Likens, F. Herbert Bormann, Noye M. Johnson, D. W. Fisher, and Robert S. Pierce (1970) -- Effects of Forest Cutting and Herbicide Treatment on Nutrient Budgets in the Hubbard Brook Watershed-Ecosystem -- Ecological Monographs 40 : 23-47 -- List of Contributors |
| Analysis |
Ecology |
| Notes |
"Published in association with the Ecological Society of America." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ecology.
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Ecology.
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| Author |
Real, Leslie, editor
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Brown, James H., 1942 September 25- editor
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Ecological Society of America.
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| LC no. |
91003052 |
| ISBN |
9780226705941 |
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0226705935 (alkaline paper) |
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0226705943 (paperback) (alkaline paper) |
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