Modeling nature : episodes in the history of population ecology /
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| Author / Creator: | Kingsland, Sharon E. |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c1995. |
| Description: | ix, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science and its conceptual foundations |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7490111 |
| Summary: | The first history of population ecology traces two generations of science and scientists from the opening of the twentieth century through 1970. Kingsland chronicles the careers of key figures and the field's theoretical, empirical, and institutional development, with special attention to tensions between the descriptive studies of field biologists and later mathematical models. This second edition includes a new afterword that brings the book up to date, with special attention to the rise of "the new natural history" and debates about ecology's future as a large-scale scientific enterprise. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-303) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0226437280 9780226437286 |