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انجام زیست شناسی میدانی در دنیایی که آزمایش ها و آزمایشگاه ها را تعالی می بخشد چگونه است؟ چگونه زیستشناسان میدانی ارزشها و شیوههای آزمایشگاهی را جذب کردهاند و علم کمی و دقیق را بدون از دست دادن روح طبیعتگرای خود ساختهاند؟ و شیوه های زیست شناسی میدانی در ایالات متحده از 1890s تا 1950s. او خوانندگان را به دشتها و جنگلهایی میبرد که زیستشناسان میدانی شمارش و اندازهگیری طبیعت و خواندن سوابق ناقص «آزمایشهای طبیعت» را آموختند. او نشان می دهد که چگونه محققان میدانی از ویژگی های طبیعت برای توسعه "عملکردهای مکان" استفاده می کنند که در طبیعت به آنچه محققان آزمایشگاهی فقط با آزمایش های ساده شده می توانند انجام دهند، دست می یابند. کوهلر با استفاده از مرزهای تاریخی به عنوان مدل، نشان می دهد که چگونه زیست شناسان علوم مرزی جدید و قوی اکولوژی و زیست شناسی تکاملی را ایجاد کردند.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
William F. Ganong
2.1 Charles O. Whitman
2.2 Charles C. Adams
2.3 Collecting expedition, Woods Hole
2.4 Carnegie Station for Experimental Evolution
2.5 University of Pennsylvania vivarium
2.6 Field station, Gull Lake
2.7 Carnegie Institution Desert Laboratory
3.1 Charles B. Davenport
3.2 Carl H. Eigenmann at Donaldson’s Cave
3.3 Student fieldwork, Syracuse Lake
3.4 Henry F. Nachtrieb and “Megalops”
3.5 “Driftwood Lake” (Sister Lake)
3.6 Henry C. Cowles and Homer L. Shantz
4.1 Counting a quadrat, Mount Garfield
4.2 A chart quadrat
4.3 Eggbeater psychrometer
4.4 Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday, Lake Mendota
4.5 Atmometers
4.6 Phytometer garden, Pike’s Peak
4.7 Edith and Frederic E. Clements
4.8 Stations in the Santa Catalina Mountains
5.1 Francis B. Sumner, Woods Hole
5.2 Francis B. Sumner with “Perodipus”
5.3 Mexico, William Tower’s field sites
5.4 Arthur Banta, Cold Spring Harbor
5.5 Tahiti, topographic map
5.6 Victor E. Shelford, University of Chicago
5.7 Field stations, Sierra Nevada
5.8 Harvey Hall’s field garden
5.9 Taxonomy of a species group
5.10 Jens Clausen’s field gardens
6.1 Conway MacMillan
6.2 William F. Ganong
6.3 Henry C. Cowles and students
6.4 Henry A. Gleason
6.5 Edith and Frederic E. Clements, Pike’s Peak
6.6 Francis B. Sumner
6.7 Forrest Shreve
7.1 Glacier Bay, Alaska
7.2 Salton Sea
7.3 Lodgepole pine forest, Estes Park
7.4 Concentric glacial bog
7.5 Glacial physiography, Lake Michigan
7.6 Indiana dunes
7.7 Fossil beaches, Lake Michigan
7.8 Lakeshore stream series
7.9 San Francisco Mountains
7.10 Humboldt Bay research site
7.11 Santa Rosa Island
8.1 Biogeography of subspecies ring
8.2 Double invasion of an island
8.3 Edgar Anderson
8.4 Cajun farms, Mississippi Delta
8.5 Distribution of hybrids
8.6 Seasonal fauna, Cedar Creek Bog
8.7 Cedar Creek Bog, Minnesota
8.8 Transect, Cedar Creek Bog
8.9 Vegetation map, Great Smoky Mountains
9.1 Silver Springs, Florida
9.2 Silver Springs sampling sites
9.3 Sonoran desert expeditions
Preface
Chapter 1: Borders and History
Field and Lab in Biology
Lab and Field as Place
Borders and Frontiers
An Overview, with Caveats
Chapter 2: 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
Chapter 3: 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
Chapter 4: Taking Nature’s Measure
Trust in Numbers: Quadrats
Taking Nature’s Measure: Instruments
Plant-Machine: Atmometers and Phytometers
Instrumental Eye: The Camera
Making the Place Right: Forrest Shreve
Conclusion
Chapter 5: Experiments in Nature
Experimental Evolution
Shifting Ground: Field and Lab
Experiments in Nature: Ecology
Experimental Taxonomy: Harvey M. Hall and Jens Clausen
Conclusion
Chapter 6: Troubled Lives
Midlife Crises: Ecology
Ends and Means: Experimental Evolution
Identity
Genetics, True and False
Physiologists and the Field
Conclusion
Chapter 7: Nature’s Experiments
Nature’s Experiments
Places in Process
Reading Places
Physiographic Ecology
Panoramas
Evolution
Conclusion
Chapter 8: Border Practices
Geographical Speciation: Ernst Mayr
Hybrid Introgression: Edgar Anderson
Ecosystem Ecology: Raymond Lindeman
Gradients and Continua: Robert Whittaker
Conclusion
Chapter 9: Border Biology: A Transect
The Border Zone: A Bird’s-Eye View
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
توضیحاتی در مورد کتاب به زبان اصلی :
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.