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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521346924

ISBN-139780521346924

eBay Product ID (ePID)540071

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Number of Pages390 Pages

Publication NameEcological Experiments : Purpose, Design and Execution

LanguageEnglish

SubjectLife Sciences / Ecology, Ecology

Publication Year1989

TypeTextbook

AuthorNelson G. Hairston Sr.

Subject AreaNature, Science

SeriesCambridge Studies in Ecology Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight22.4 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width5.9 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN89-000979

Reviews"...should be read, not just by those interested in community structure and competition, but by all who use field experiments in ecology." C. J. Legg, New Phytologist, ' ... when it comes to writing about ecological experimentation Hairston is unbeatable. This is the best ecology book to appear in several years. It is instructional, entertaining and unmatched in the breadth and distinction of its scholarship.'Michael J. Crawley, Nature, "...valuable to biologists interested in conducting field experiments to understand population regulation, interspecific interactions, or community organization. It will provide important supplemental reading for courses in experimental design or field ecology. Those who take the book's lessons with them to the field will surely improve their science." Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, ' ... when it comes to writing about ecological experimentation Hairston is unbeatable. This is the best ecology book to appear in several years. It is instructional, entertaining and unmatched in the breadth and distinction of its scholarship.' Michael J. Crawley, Nature, "...the best ecology book to appear in several years. It is instructional, entertaining, and unmatched in the breadth and distinction of its scholarship." Nature, ' â€¦ when it comes to writing about ecological experimentation Hairston is unbeatable. This is the best ecology book to appear in several years. It is instructional, entertaining and unmatched in the breadth and distinction of its scholarship.' Michael J. Crawley, Nature, ‘ … when it comes to writing about ecological experimentation Hairston is unbeatable. This is the best ecology book to appear in several years. It is instructional, entertaining and unmatched in the breadth and distinction of its scholarship.’Michael J. Crawley, Nature

Dewey Edition19

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal574.5/0724

Table Of ContentPreface; Acknowledgments; 1. Ecological problems and how they are approached; 2. Minimal requirements of experimental design in ecology; 3. Trade-offs in ecological experimentation; 4. Experiments in forests; 5. Experiments in terrestrial successional communities; 6. Experiments in arid environments; 7. Experiments in fresh water; 8. Experiments in marine environments; 9. Conclusions to be drawn from field experiments; References; Name index; Subject index.

SynopsisEcological Experiments stresses the importance to ecology of field experiments, where variables are manipulated in order to collect data on specific hypotheses, as opposed to the more passive observational method. The book begins by introducing a series of ecological questions that can be addressed experimentally for example, what is the significance of competition among species? The minimal requirements of experimental design that must be met are then introduced, together with examples of good and poor experiments from the ecological literature and a consideration of the trade-offs that may be forced on the experimenter by field conditions. All ecologists, and especially students beginning their careers in field study, will find in this text a good introduction to the experimental foundation of ecology., Ecological Experiments stresses the importance of field experiments, where variables are manipulated in order to collect data on specific hypotheses, as opposed to the more passive observational method. It introduces a series of ecological questions which can be addressed experimentally and details the minimum requirements of experimental design., Ecological Experiments stresses the importance of manipulative field experimentation in ecology as being superior to the observational method. The book begins with a series of ecological questions that can be answered by experiments, such as: what is the importance of competition among scientists? The minimal requirements of experimental design that should be met for satisfactory field experiments are then introduced, and examples of good and poor experiments from the literature are examined in this light along with a consideration of the trade-offs that may be forced on the experiment by the conditions faced in the field. Included are descriptions of experiments in five different kinds of environments: forests, successional habitats, deserts and semideserts, fresh water (divided into lakes, ponds, and streams), and marine environments (divided according to the kind of substrate). Each experiment is discussed from the standpoint of the ecological question being answered and the quality of ecological design. For most of the environments, the experiments are arranged according to the topic level. The final chapter contains discussions of the results in the different environments, and the conclusions that the experiments in each environment permit. It is shown that interpretations of environmental phenomena must be different for each kind of environment, and that a general theory of ecology is unlikely to be obtainable.

LC Classification NumberQH541.24 .H35 1989