Landscapes and Labscapes : Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology - Robert E. Kohler

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Landscapes and Labscapes

Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology

By: Robert E. Kohler

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Hardcover | 1 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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What is it like to do field biology in a world that exalts experiments and laboratories? How have field biologists assimilated laboratory values and practices, and crafted an exact, quantitative science without losing their naturalist souls?

In Landscapes and Labscapes, Robert E. Kohler explores the people, places, and practices of field biology in the United States from the 1890s to the 1950s. He takes readers into the fields and forests where field biologists learned to count and measure nature and to read the imperfect records of "nature's experiments." He shows how field researchers use nature's particularities to develop "practices of place" that achieve in nature what laboratory researchers can only do with simplified experiments. Using historical frontiers as models, Kohler shows how biologists created vigorous new border sciences of ecology and evolutionary biology.

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Borders and History Field and Lab in Biology Lab and Field as Place Borders and Frontiers An Overview, with Caveats
A New Natural History The New Natural History New Naturalists and Educational Reform Labscapes: Marine Stations and Biological Farms Labscapes: Vivaria and Field Stations Conclusion
Border Crossings The Rise and Decline of Biometry Ecology: Physiology or Natural History? Up "Brush Creek" and Back Again Guardians of the Faith: Genetics and Physiology Conclusion
Taking Nature's Measure Trust in Numbers: Quadrates Taking Nature's Measure: Instruments Plant-Machine: Atmometers and Phytometers Instrumental Eye: The Camera Making the Place Right: Forrest Shreve Conclusion
Experiments in Nature Experimental Evolution Shifting Ground: Field and Lab Experiments in Nature: Ecology Experimental Taxonomy: Harvey M. Hall and Jens Clausen Conclusion
Troubled Lives Midlife Crises: Ecology Ends and Means: Experimental Evolution Identity Genetics, True and False Physiologists and the Field Conclusion
Nature's Experiments Nature's Experiments Places in Process Reading Places Physiographic Ecology Panoramas Evolution Conclusion
Border Practices Geographical Speciation: Ernst Mayr Hybrid Integration: Edgar Anderson Ecosystem Ecology: Raymond Lindeman Gradients and Continua: Robert Whittaker Conclusion
Border Biology: A Transect The Border Zone: A Bird's-Eye View
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
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