Henry Chandler Cowles

Author : Victor M. Cassidy
Publisher : Kedzie Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Henry Chandler Cowles written by Victor M. Cassidy and published by Kedzie Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, Victor M Cassidy brings to life the world of Henry Chandler Cowles, internationally renowned ecologist, botanist, university teacher and conservationist. The book also rescues and reprints the best of his writings from forgotten journals and contains previously unpublished family and expedition photographs. At the end of the 19th century, Cowles made hundreds of field observations of the sand dune landscape that rings the southern and eastern shores of Lake Michigan. His studies demonstrated that the outdoor environment is a dynamic system in which plants, soil, moisture, climate, and topography interact. Cowles was the first to make sense of plant succession, which denotes the way that communities of plants come into a landscape, flourish, and create conditions for their replacement by other plant communities. He later expanded his plant succession studies into different Chicago-area ecosystems. Starting from a blank sheet of paper, Cowles created the entire ecology curriculum at the University of Chicago and taught it for more than thirty years.

Author : Henry Chandler Cowles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan written by Henry Chandler Cowles and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Gibbard Cook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowles Bog, Indiana, and Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939) written by Sarah Gibbard Cook and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Gibbard Cook
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 93 pages
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Download or read book Henry Chandler Cowles (1869-1939) and Cowles Bog, Indiana written by Sarah Gibbard Cook and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ronald Rainger
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813517025
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Development of Biology written by Ronald Rainger and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the development of biology in the United States.

Author : Leslie A. Real
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618210X
Total Pages : 920 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Ecology written by Leslie A. Real and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-12-20 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today. The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organized in six sections: foundational papers, theoretical advances, synthetic statements, methodological developments, field studies, and ecological experiments. Selections range from Connell's elegant account of experiments with barnacles to Watt's encyclopedic natural history, from a visionary exposition by Grinnell of the concept of niche to a seminal essay by Hutchinson on diversity. Six original essays by contemporary ecologists and a historian of ecology place the selections in context and discuss their continued relevance to current research. This combination of classic papers and fresh commentaries makes Foundations of Ecology both a convenient reference to papers often cited today and an essential guide to the intellectual and conceptual roots of the field. Published with the Ecological Society of America.

Author : Joel Bartholemew Hagen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813518244
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Entangled Bank written by Joel Bartholemew Hagen and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was a revelation. I was simply enthralled by Joel Hagen's brilliance in reviewing the emergence of the discipline of ecosystem ecology (the study of biotic-abiotic interaction and nutrient flows in ecological systems). He does a magnificent job of introducing the personalities that midwived the new science. He explains their intellectual struggles, philosophical cross-currents, and different academic milieux. He also expertly illuminates sociopolitical context. Through his in-depth research he is able to dispel some misconceptions and truismsm, arriving at the heart of what made each scientist tick. Even when exploring some of the arcane figures and dead-end developments, he is so compelling that they become integral to the story, not sidetracks. His breadth of knowledge, his discerning inclusiveness, his clarity of thought, all make _An Entangled Bank_ a stimulating read. Very often in science courses we are presented only with the canonical "state of the science," having to swallow its agglomerated whole free of context. Hagen reveals the wisdom of understanding intellectual foundations. Through study of the origins and development of a science, we may better grasp the received tenets of current scientific understanding. As a young science, ecosystem ecology has a historical context that is relatively accessible to us, if less romantic than a tale of the origins of astronomy might be. A peek into the labs and offices of botanists, limnologists, and biogeochemists might not seem like the acme of excitement. Hagen inspires us with his insights. He makes his subject meaningful to us. Though it is not pleasure reading by any stretch, its clear-sighted intellectual vigor makes _An Entangled Bank_ pure enjoyment.

Author : Henry Chandler Cowles
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book The Plant Societies of Chicago and Vicinity written by Henry Chandler Cowles and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew C. Ally
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793638691
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Earthly Engagements written by Matthew C. Ally and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-03-16 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. Contributors variously discuss phenomenology, ethics, politics, ontology, and metaphysics. Earthly locations include the Icelandic coast, the Minnesota woods, the Indiana Dunes, the Chinese Great Plain, the Venetian Lagoon, and more; worldly situations include that of the artist, the activist, the consumer, the tourist, and more. Through their diversity of methods and substantive concerns, the chapters reveal a wealth of critical and heuristic resources within Sartre’s thought for thinking through and engaging the planetary ecological crisis and its direct ties to global social, economic, and political crises. In full recognition of Sartre’s personal distaste for agrarian settings and wilderness, and some ostensibly anti-environmental philosophical and literary moments, the contributors take the proper Sartrean line that how we view nature and our relationship to nature is neither closed nor predetermined. Like life itself, our worldly relationship to earthly nature is rooted in the sufficiency and open-endedness of freedom.

Author : Thomas J. Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108477070
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Species-Area Relationship written by Thomas J. Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-18 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive synthesis of a fundamental phenomenon, the species-area relationship, addressing theory, evidence and application.