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Scaling in Ecology with a Model System

By: Aaron M Ellison(Author), Nicholas J Gotelli(Author)
392 pages, 95 b/w illustrations, 24 tables
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Scale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researchers often find it difficult to find ecological systems that lend themselves to its study. Scaling in Ecology with a Model System synthesizes nearly three decades of research on the ecology of Sarracenia purpurea – the northern pitcher plant – showing how this carnivorous plant and its associated food web of microbes and macrobes can inform the challenging question of scaling in ecology.

Drawing on a wealth of findings from their pioneering lab and field experiments, Aaron Ellison and Nicholas Gotelli reveal how the Sarracenia microecosystem has emerged as a model system for experimental ecology. Ellison and Gotelli examine Sarracenia at a hierarchy of spatial scales – individual pitchers within plants, plants within bogs, and bogs within landscapes – and demonstrate how pitcher plants can serve as replicate miniature ecosystems that can be studied in wetlands throughout the United States and Canada. They show how research on the Sarracenia microecosystem proceeds much more rapidly than studies of larger, more slowly changing ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, lakes, or streams, which are more difficult to replicate and experimentally manipulate.

Scaling in Ecology with a Model System offers new insights into ecophysiology and stoichiometry, demography, extinction risk and species distribution models, food webs and trophic dynamics, and tipping points and regime shifts.

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Aaron M. Ellison is the Senior Research Fellow in Ecology at Harvard University. Nicholas J. Gotelli is the George H. Perkins Professor of Zoology at the University of Vermont. They are the coauthors of A Primer of Ecological Statistics and A Field Guide to the Ants of New England.

By: Aaron M Ellison(Author), Nicholas J Gotelli(Author)
392 pages, 95 b/w illustrations, 24 tables
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"This engaging book is a wonderful example of how to do the kind of integrative science that the founders of ecology originally intended. Ellison and Gotelli offer the next generation of ecologists a new way to think about nature."
– Oswald J. Schmitz, author of The New Ecology: Rethinking a Science for the Anthropocene

"This unique book provides a rare and complete synthesis of research and observations on a single study system, and is a superb example of ecological thinking that blends theory and empiricism. Scaling in Ecology with a Model System is a rich introduction to ecological science for any reader."
– Mary O'Connor, University of British Columbia

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