An edition of The philosophy of ecology
(2000)
The philosophy of ecology
from science to synthesis
by David R. Keller and Frank B. Golley
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The philosophy of ecology: from science to synthesis
2000, University of Georgia Press
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0820322202 9780820322209
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Table of Contents
Preface to plant succession: an analysis of the development of vegetation / Frederic E. Clements
The individualistic concept of the plant association / Henry A. Gleason
The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms / Arthur G. Tansley
A succession of paradigms in ecology: essentialism to materialism and probabilism / Daniel Simberloff
Life after Newton: an ecological metaphysic / Robert E. Ulanowicz
An oyster bank is a bioco nose, or a social community / Karl Mo bius
On the reasons for distinguishing niche, habitat, and ecotope / Robert H. Whittaker, Simon A. Levin, Richard B. Root
Biological diversity in ecology / Ruth Patrick
Stability in ecological communities / Andrew Redfearn, Stuart L. Pimm
The bucket and the searchlight: two theories of knowledge / Karl R. Popper
The role of theory in ecology / Robert M. May
Community ecology, population biology, and the method of case studies / Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Earl D. McCoy
Mechanistic approaches to ecology: a new reductionism? / Thomas W. Schoener
The emergence of ecology as a new integrative discipline / Eugene P. Odum
"Reductionist holism": an oxymoron or a philosophical chimera of Eugene Odum's systems ecology? / Donato Bergandi
Dialectics and reductionism in ecology / Richard Levins, Richard C. Lewontin
Hierarchy: perspectives for ecological complexity / T.F.H. Allen, Thomas B. Starr
The metaphysics of evolution / David L. Hull
The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist program / Stephen J. Gould, Richard C. Lewontin
How to carry out the adaptationist program? / Ernst Mayr
Evolutionary ecology and the use of natural selection in ecological theory / James P. Collins
Evolution: the missing ingredient in systems ecology / Craig Loehle, Joseph H.K. Pechmann.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-359) and index.
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