The ecology of place : contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding PDF
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The Ecology of Place the ecology of pl ace Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding Edited by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London ian billick is executive director of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Colorado. mary v. price is professor emerita of biology at the University of Califor- nia, Riverside. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2010 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2010 Printed in the United States of America 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05042-3 (cloth) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05043-0 (paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-05042-4 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-226-05043-2 (paper) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The ecology of place : contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding / edited by Ian Billick and Mary V. Price. p. cm. “Papers of the scientific symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory”—CIP data. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05042-3 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-226-05043-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-05042-4 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-226-05043-2 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Ecology—Longitudinal studies— Congresses. 2. Ecology—Research—Congresses. I. Billick, Ian, 1966– II. Price, Mary V. (Mary Vaughan), 1949– III . Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory. QH541.2.E252 2010 577.072—dc22 2010015030 a The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48–1992. To the places that draw us outside and the people who seek to understand them contents Preface and Acknowledgments xi 1 The Ecology of Place 1 mary v. price and ian billick Part 1. The Imprint of Place on Ecology and Ecologists 11 mary v. price and ian billick 2 The Role of Place in the History of Ecology 15 sharon e. kingsland 3 Leopold’s Legacy: An Ecology of Place 40 donald m. waller and susan flader Part 2. The Idiosyncrasy of Place: Challenges and Opportunities 63 ian billick and mary v. price 4 Ecological Invariance and the Search for Generality in Ecology 69 h. ronald pulliam and nickolas m. waser 5 Convergence and Divergence in Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems: What We Can Learn by Comparing Similar Places 93 philip w. rundel 6 Ecological Insights into the Causes of an Adaptive Radiation from Long-Term Field Studies of Darwin’s Finches 109 peter r. grant and b. rosemary grant 7 Individual Fitness, Social Behavior, and Population Dynamics of Yellow-Bellied Marmots 134 kenneth b. armitage 8 The Aleutian Archipelago: Addressing the Functional Importance of Carnivory through Variation in Space and Time 155 james a. estes Part 3. Building an Understanding of Place 177 mary v. price and ian billick 9 Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems: The Value of Place-Based Research 185 barbara l. peckarsky, j. david allan, angus r. mcintosh, and brad w. taylor 10 The Ecology of Place in Oak Forests: Progressive Integration of Pairwise Interactions into Webs 207 richard s. ostfeld and clive g. jones 11 A Sense of Place: Tatoosh 229 robert t. paine, j. timothy wootton, and catherine a. pfister 12 The Ecology of Place and Natural Resource Management: Examples from Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems 251 charles g. curtin Part 4. The Interaction between Local and General Understanding 275 mary v. price and ian billick 13 Case Studies and Ecological Understanding 283 charles j. krebs 14 Responsive Science: The Interplay of Theory, Observation, and Experiment in Long-Term, Place-Based Research 303 svaˇta m. louda and leon g. higley 15 To Know a Tropical Forest: What Mechanisms Maintain High Tree Diversity on Barro Colorado Island, Panama? 327 stephen p. hubbell Part 5. Building the Capacity for Place-Based Research 353 ian billick and mary v. price 16 The Model Ecosystem as a Paradigm of Place-Based Research: The Intersection of Geology, Ecology, and Economics at the McLaughlin Reserve 359 paul a. aigner and catherine e. koehler 17 Managing Place-Based Data: The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory as a Case Study 382 ian billick 18 Local People, Scientific Inquiry, and the Ecology and Conservation of Place in Latin America 403 peter feinsinger, samara álvarez, geovana carreño, edmundo rivera, rosa leny cuellar, andrew noss, félix daza, mireiza figuera, edith lanz, lainet garcía, maikel cañizares, aylin alegre, and alejandra roldán 19 Concluding Remarks: Taking Advantage of the Power of Place 429 mary v. price and ian billick List of Contributors 439 Index 443
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