Scaling in Ecology with a Model System - (Monographs in Population Biology) by Aaron M Ellison & Nicholas J Gotelli (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Scale - the understanding of ecological phenomena through levels of biological organization across time and space - is one of most important concepts in ecology. It is often challenging for ecologists to find systems that lend themselves to study across scales; however, Sarracenia, a pitcher plant indigenous to the eastern United States, is unique because it can be studied at a hierarchy of scales: individuals, communities, and whole ecosystems. Ecologists Aaron Ellison and Nicolas Gotelli have studied Sarracenia for decades and, in this book, they synthesize their research and show how this system can inform the broad and challenging question of scaling in ecology. The authors' goal is to deepen the current understanding of major ecological processes, and how they operate across scales"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A groundbreaking approach to scale and scaling in ecological theory and practice</b> <p/>Scale is one of the most important concepts in ecology, yet researchers often find it difficult to find ecological systems that lend themselves to its study. <i>Scaling in Ecology with a Model System</i> synthesizes nearly three decades of research on the ecology of <i>Sarracenia purpurea</i>-the northern pitcher plant-showing how this carnivorous plant and its associated food web of microbes and macrobes can inform the challenging question of scaling in ecology. <p/>Drawing on a wealth of findings from their pioneering lab and field experiments, Aaron Ellison and Nicholas Gotelli reveal how the <i>Sarracenia</i> microecosystem has emerged as a model system for experimental ecology. Ellison and Gotelli examine <i>Sarracenia</i> at a hierarchy of spatial scales-individual pitchers within plants, plants within bogs, and bogs within landscapes-and demonstrate how pitcher plants can serve as replicate miniature ecosystems that can be studied in wetlands throughout the United States and Canada. They show how research on the <i>Sarracenia</i> microecosystem proceeds much more rapidly than studies of larger, more slowly changing ecosystems such as forests, grasslands, lakes, or streams, which are more difficult to replicate and experimentally manipulate. <p/><i>Scaling in Ecology with a Model System</i> offers new insights into ecophysiology and stoichiometry, demography, extinction risk and species distribution models, food webs and trophic dynamics, and tipping points and regime shifts.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Aaron M. Ellison</b> is the Senior Research Fellow Emeritus in Ecology at Harvard University. Website unbalancedecologist.net Twitter @AMaxEll17 <b>Nicholas J. Gotelli</b> is the George H. Perkins Professor of Zoology at the University of Vermont. Website uvm.edu/ ngotelli/homepage.html They are the coauthors of <i>A Primer of Ecological Statistics</i> and <i>A Field Guide to the Ants of New England</i>.
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