The ecology of place contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding.

• Main Author: Ian Billick, Mary V. Price
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2010; The University of Chicago Press
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Animals; Congresses; Ecology; Ecosystems; Forests; Longitudinal studies; Natural history; Natural resources; Place; Resource management; SCIENCE; Trees

Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so few ecologists and so many systems to stud...