Toward a more exact ecology : the second jubilee symposium to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the British Ecological Society, St. Catherine's College, Oxford, 13-15 September 1988, published as the 30th Symposium of the Society /
edited by Peter J. Grubb, John B. Whittaker.
- Oxford ; Boston : Brookline Village, Mass. : Blackwell Scientific Publications ; Publishers' Business Services [distributor], 1989.
- x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Toward a more exact ecology : a personal view of the issues / Gas exchange of plants in the field / Telemetric recording of physiological data from free-living animals / Determination of respiration rates of free-living animals by the double-labelling technique / Analysis of insect population dynamics / Control of population size in birds : the grey partridge as a case study / Mechanisms in plant population control / The reproductive ecology of plants and eusocial animals / Comparative studies in evolutionary ecology / An experimentalist's approach to the role of costs of reproduction in the evolution of life-histories / Factors affecting the relative abundances of forest tree species / Insect herbivory and plant defence theory / Butterfly-ant mutualisms / Energy flow and productivity in the oceans / Soils as components and controllers of ecosystem processes / Forest decline in central Europe : the unravelling of multiple causes / Water pollution and the management of ecosystems : a case study of science and scientist / Toward an exact human ecology / P.J. Grubb -- S.P. Long -- P.J. Butler -- D.M. Bryant -- W.W. Murdoch -- G.R. Potts and N.J. Aebischer -- E. Van der Meijden -- D.G. Lloyd -- P.H. Harvey and M.D. Pagel -- L. Partridge -- H.H. Shugart and D.L. Urban -- P.J. Edwards -- N.E. Pierce -- R.E. Ulanowicz -- E.A. Paul -- G.H.M. Krause -- B. Moss -- M. Slesser.