Kohler explores the people, places and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. Using historical frontiers as models, he shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.
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The foundation -- The explorers -- The settlers -- The thinkers -- The institutions -- What it meant -- The natural historians -- Bred in their bones -- What it meant -- The ecologists -- An Illinois original -- The Nebraska school of plant ecology -- The Chicago school of plant…
Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and their environments - an underst…
Field biology is enjoying a resurgence due to several factors, the most important being the realization that there is no ecology, no conservation, and no ecosystem restoration without an understanding of the basic relationships between species and their environments--an understa…