Experimental Ecology

• Earl E. Werner, ecological experiments and a research programme in community ecology; Arthur E. Dunham and Steven J. Beaupre, ecological experiments - scale, phonomenology, mechanism, and the illusion of generality; Peter K. Morin, realism, precision, and generality in experimental ecology; James H. Brown, the desert granivory experiments at Portal; Mathew A. Liebold and Alan J. Tessier, experimental compromise and mechanistic approaches to the evolutionary ecology of interacting daphnia species; Mary W. Power, William E. Dietrich and Kathleen O. Sullivan, experimentation, observation, and inference in river and watershed investigations; William J. Resetarits Jr. and John E. Fauth, from cattle tanks to Carolina Bays - the utility of model systems for understanding natural communities; Sally Holbrook and Russell J. Schmitt, have field experiments aided in the understanding of abundance and dynamics of temperature reef fishes?; John H. Lawton, ecological experiments with model systems, the ecotron facility in context; Peter S. Petraitis, how can we compare the importance of ecological processes if we never ask, "compared to what?"; David M. Lodge, Steven C. Blumenshine, and Yvonne Vadeboncoeur, insights and application of large-scale, long-term ecological observations and experiments; Sharon P. Lawler, ecology in a bottle - using microcosms to test theory; Gary A. Polis, David H. Wise, Stephen D. Hurd, Francisco Sanchez-Pi ~nero, James D. Wagner, Christopher Todd Jackson, and Joseph D. Barnes, the interplay between natural history and field experimentation; Elizabeth A. Marschall and Bernadette M. Roche, using models to enhance the value of information from observations and experiments; Judith A. Mongold, experimental approaches to studying the population dynamics and evolution of micro-organisms; Barbara L. Peckarsky, the dual role of experiments in complex and dynamic natural systems; Anthony J. Underwood, design, implementation and analysis of ecological and environment experiments - pitfalls in the maintenance of logical structures; J. Timothy Wootton and Catherine A. Pfister, the motivation and context for experiments in ecology; Joseph Bernardo, the logic, value and necessity of grounding experiments in reality - an essential link in the inferential chain block to nature; John E. Fauth, investigating geographic variation in interspecific interactions using common garden experiments; Robert J. Marquis and Christopher J. Whelan, experimental ecology of plant-animal interactions - revelations and limitations; David N. Reznick and Joseph Travis, experimental approaches to the study of evolution.

'...A useful book for ecological postgraduates and research workers.'