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17 reviewsISBN 10: 0520334205
ISBN 13: 9780520334205
Author: Ronald C Tobey
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
1 MISSIONARIES FOR BOTANY: C. E. Bessey and His Students
A Leading Department of Botany
“Canis Pie”
The Bessey System
2 THE CREATIVE TENSION: Laboratory Versus Nature Study
The Return to Nature
The Promise of the High School
Natural History in the Genteel Tradition
The New Botany, the Research Ideal, and Ecology
Botany for High Schools and Colleges
3 QUADRAT: Quantitative Methods for Ecology
Quantification in Plant Geography
Statistics in Plant Anatomy and Physiology
The Leap to Numerical Quantification in Ecology
The Quadrat Method in Full Bloom
4 FREDERIC CLEMENTS'S Theory of Plant Succession
“The Soul of a Sensitive Poet and Dreamer”
The Philosophy of Vegetation
The Idealistic Tradition in Plant Geography
The Mechanistic Tradition in Plant Geography
5 THE LIFE CYCLE OF GRASSLAND ECOLOGY
Microparadigms for Plant Ecology
Educational Preparation of Grassland Scientists
Divergent Missions in Education and Research
Employment Patterns
Collaborative Networks
Known by the Company They Keep: Citing Behavior
Generations of Grassland Literature
Conclusions
6 A. G. TANSLEY: A British Critic of Clementsian Theory, 1905—1935
The British Ally
The Permanence of the British Landscape
Critique of the Formational Organism
Tansley’s Concept of the Ecological System
Clements, Conservative Biologist
The Political Ideology of Plant Ecology
7 SAVING THE PRAIRIES: The Great Drought of the 1930s and the Climax of the Grassland School
The Roots of John Weaver’s Faith
The Faith Erodes
Knowledge and Ideology
Exhaustion of the Research Specialty
Epilogue
METHODOLOGICAL APPENDIX
The Grasslands Bibliography
The Collective Biography
Citation Analysis
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