Reading List - Scale and Ecological Systems.  EEB 504 Section 32460



Books on Reserve at Main Library, 2nd floor:

Kolasa, J., S. T. Pickett, and T. F. H. Allen 1991.  Ecological heterogeneity.
 QH541.15.E24E28 1991.

ONeill, R. V., D. L. DeAngelis, T. B. Waide, and T. F. H. Allen 1986.  A
hierarchical concept of ecosystems.  Monographs in population biology #23.  
Princeton University Press.  253 pp.  QH541.H525

Roughgarden, J., R. M. May, and S. A. Levin  1989.   Perspectives in
ecological theory.  Princeton University Press.  394 pp.  QH541.P425 1989

(T. M. Powell.  Physical and biological scales of variability in lakes,
estuaries, and the coastal ocean. Chapter 11, pp 157 - 176.)

Schneider, D. C. 1994.  Quantitative ecology: spatial and temporal scaling. 
Academic Press.  395 pp.  QH541.15.M34S36

Turner, M. G., and , R. H. Gardner 1991.  Quantitative methods in landscape
ecology: the analysis and interpretation of landscape heterogeneity.  
QH541.5.L35Q36

(Turner, M.G., and R H. Gardner. Quantitative methods in landscape ecology: an
introduction. pp 3 - 14.)

Other Books of Interest (not on reserve)

Ahl, V., and T. F. H. Allen 1996.  Hierarchy theory: a vision, vocabulary, and
epistemology.  Q175.A334

Allen, T. F. H., and T. W. Hoekstra.  Toward a unified ecology.  Complexity in
Ecological Systems Series.  Columbia University Press.  384 pp.  QH540.5.A55
1992.

Allen, T. F. H., and T. B. Starr 1982.  Hierarchy: perspectives for ecological
complexity.  QH541.A45 1982.

Papers (copies in the EEB Office)

DeAngelis, D. L., and J. C. Waterhouse 1987.  Equilibrium and nonequilibrium
concepts in ecological models.  Ecological Monographs 57 (1): 1 - 21.

Drake, J. A., C. L. Hewitt, G. R. Huxel, and J. Kolasa 1996.  Diversity and
higher levels of organization.  pp 140 - 166 in Biodiversity: a biology of
numbers and differences, Gaston, K (ed).  Blackwell.

Huston, M. A. 1997.  Hidden treatments in ecological experiments:
re-evaluating the ecosystem function of biodiversity.  Oecologia in press. 

Jarvis, P. G. 1995.  Scaling processes and problems.  Plant, Cell, and
Environment 18: 1079-1089.

Kolasa, J., J. A. Drake, G. R. Huxel, and C. L. Hewitt 1996.  Hierarchy
underlies patterns of variability in species inhabiting natural microcosms. 
OIKOS 77: 259 - 266.

Kotliar N. B., and J. A. Wiens.  1990.  Multiple scales of patchiness and
patch structure: a hierarchical framework for the study of heterogeneity. 
OIKOS 59: 253 - 260.

Levin, S. A. 1992.  The problem of pattern and scale in ecology.  Ecology
73(6): 1943 - 1967.

Milne, B. T. 1988.  Measuring the fractal geometry of landscapes.  Applied
Mathematics and Computation 27: 67 - 79.

ONeill, R. H., A. R. Johnson, and A. W. King 1989.  A hierarchical framework
for the analysis of scale.  Landscape Ecology 3: 193-206.

Silbernagel, J. 1997 (April).  Scale perception - from cartography to ecology.
Commentary in Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 78(2): 166 - 169.

Steele, J. H. 1991.  Can ecological theory cross the land-sea boundary? 
Journal of Theoretical Biology 153: 425 - 436.

Sugihara, G., and R. M. May 1990.  Application of fractals in ecology.  Trends
in Ecology and Evolution 5(3): 79 - 86.

Tilman, D. 1996.  Biodiversity: population versus ecosystem stability. 
Ecology 77: 350-363.

Wiens, J. A. 1989.  Spatial scaling in ecology.  Essay review in Functional
Ecology 3: 385 - 397.

Wu, J., and O. L. Loucks 1995.  From balance of nature to hierarchical patch
dynamics: a paradigm shift in ecology.  The Quarterly Review of Biology 70(4):
439 - 466.

Packet of Nature and Science articles about biodiversity, 1996.