The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3030669327 ISBN 13 : 9783030669324

Editeur : Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021

Synopsis

This volume explores the challenges of sustaining long-term ecological research through a historical analysis of the Long Term Ecological Research Program created by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1980.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robert B. Waide is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. As Senior Scientist at the Center for Energy and Environment Research (University of Puerto Rico), he was one of the founding Lead Principal Investigators (with Ariel Lugo) of the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project from 1988-1997. He was Executive Director of the LTER Network Office in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from 1997-2016 and in this role, he was a member of the LTER Executive Board, Science Council, and most of the LTER standing committees. He continues his association with the LTER Network as a scientist with the Luquillo LTER and as a member of the Environmental Data Initiative. Books that he has published include: Ecological Gradient Analyses in a Tropical Landscape (2013); A Caribbean Forest Tapestry: The Multidimensional Nature of Disturbance and Response (2012); and The Food Web of a Tropical Rain Forest (1996).

Sharon E. Kingsland is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History of Science and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. She has been writing about the history of ecology and related sciences for over forty years and has published two books on the history of ecology: Modeling Nature: Episodes in the History of Population Ecology (2^nd ed., 1995), and The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 (2005). She continues her interests in the history of ecological science and is currently writing a book on the history of physiological ecology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3030669327
• ISBN 13: 9783030669324
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 497
• Éditeur: Waide Robert B., Kingsland Sharon E.
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