Big Ecology The Emergence of Ecosystem Science

Name: Big Ecology
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By: David C Coleman

236 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables

Publisher: University of California Press

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ISBN: 9780520264755 Hardback Jun 2010 In stock
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In this book, the author documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As he explains, the concept of the ecosystem - a local biological community and its interactions with its environment - has given rise to many institutions and research programs, like the National Science Foundation's program for Long Term Ecological Research.

Coleman's insider account of this important and fascinating trend toward big science takes the reader from the paradigm of collaborative interdisciplinary research, starting with the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957, through the International Biological Program (IBP) of the late 1960s and early 1970s, to the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs of the 1980s.

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David C. Coleman is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. He is the author of "Fundamentals of Soil Ecology" as well as many other books and articles.

By: David C Coleman

236 pages, b/w photos, b/w illustrations, b/w maps, tables

Publisher: University of California Press

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Coleman offers his personal, inside account of ecosystem science evolution over 40 years, including the influence of individual scientists. .. . Ecologists should read this book for its insights into the foundations on which present-day ecosystem science is built.--Choice

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