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.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Toward a more exact ecology : a personal view of the issues / P.J. Grubb -- Gas exchange of plants in the field / S.P. Long -- Telemetric recording of physiological data from free-living animals / P.J. Butler -- Determination of respiration rates of free-living animals by the double-labelling technique / D.M. Bryant -- Analysis of insect population dynamics / W.W. Murdoch -- Control of population size in birds : the grey partridge as a case study / G.R. Potts and N.J. Aebischer -- Mechanisms in plant population control / E. Van der Meijden -- The reproductive ecology of plants and eusocial animals / D.G. Lloyd -- Comparative studies in evolutionary ecology / P.H. Harvey and M.D. Pagel -- An experimentalist's approach to the role of costs of reproduction in the evolution of life-histories / L. Partridge -- Factors affecting the relative abundances of forest tree species / H.H. Shugart and D.L. Urban -- Insect herbivory and plant defence theory / P.J. Edwards -- Butterfly-ant mutualisms / N.E. Pierce -- Energy flow and productivity in the oceans / R.E. Ulanowicz -- Soils as components and controllers of ecosystem processes / E.A. Paul -- Forest decline in central Europe : the unravelling of multiple causes / G.H.M. Krause -- Water pollution and the management of ecosystems : a case study of science and scientist / B. Moss -- Toward an exact human ecology / M. Slesser.