Experimental ecology: issues and perspectives/
edited by William J. Resetarits and Joseph Bernardo
- New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
- xvii, 470 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Ecological experiments and a research program in community ecology / Earl E. Werner -- Ecological experiments: scale, phenomenology, mechanism, and the illusion of generality / Arthur E. Dunham and Steven J. Beaupre -- Realism, precision, and generality in experimental ecology / Peter J. Morin -- The desert granivory experiments at Portal / James H. Brown -- Experimental compromise and mechanistic approaches to the evolutionary ecology of interacting Daphnia species / Mathew A. Leibold & Alan J. Tessier -- Experimentation, observation, and interference in river and watershed investigations / Mary E. Power, William E. Dietrich, & Kathleen O. Sullivan -- From cattle tanks to Carolina bays: the utility of model systems for understanding natural communities / William J. Resetarits, Jr. & John E. Fauth -- Have field experiments aided in the understanding of abundance and dynamics of temperate reef fishes? / Sally J. Holbrook & Russell J. Schmitt -- Ecological experiments with model systems: the Ecotron facility in context / John H. Lawton -- How can we compare the importance of ecological processes if we never ask, "compared to what?" / Peter S. Petraitis -- Insights and application of large-scale, long-term ecological observations and experiments / David M. Lodge, Steven C. Blumenshine, & Yvonne Vadeboncoeur -- Ecology in a bottle: using microcosms to test theory / Sharon P. Lawler -- The interplay between natural history and field experimentation / Gary A. Polis [and others] -- Using models to enhance the value of information from observations and experiments / Elizabeth A. Marschall & Bernadette M. Roche -- Experimental approaches to studying the population dynamics and evolution of microorganisms / J.A. Mongold -- The dual role of experiments in complex and dynamic natural systems / Barbara L. Peckarsky -- Design, implementation and analysis of ecological and environmental experiments: pitfalls in the maintenance of logical structures / A.J. Underwood -- The motivation for and context of experiments in ecology / J. Timothy Wootton and Catherine A. Pfister -- The logic, value, and necessity of grounding experiments in reality: an essential link in the inferential chain back to nature / Joseph Bernardo -- Investigating geographic variation in interactions using common garden experiments / John E. Fauth -- Revelations and limitations of the experimental approach for the study of plant-animal interactions / Robert J. Marquis and Christopher J. Whelan -- Experimental approaches to the study of evolution / Joseph Travis and David N. Reznick.