1. Why a History of Ecology: An Introduction
Beatrix E. Beisner and Kim Cuddington
Part I
POPULATION ECOLOGY
2. Unstructured Models in Ecology: Past, Present and Future
3.Unstructured population models: Do population-level assumptions
yield general theory?
4. The “Structure of Population Ecology: Philosophical Reflections
on Unstructured and Structured Models
Part II
EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY
5. The Law of Mass Action in Epidemiology: A Historical
Perspective
6. Extensions to Mass Action Mixing
7. Mass Action and System Analysis of Infection Transmission
Part III
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
8. Community Diversity and Stability: Changing Perspectives and
Changing Definitions
9. Perspectives on Diversity, Structure and Stability
10. Diversity and Stability: Theories, Models and Data
Part IV
EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY
11. On the Integration of Community Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology: Historical Perspectives and Current Prospects
12. Modeling the ecological context of evolutionary change: déjà vu
or something new?
13. The Elusive Synthesis
Part V
ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY
14. The Loss of Narrative
15. Ecological Management: Control, Uncertainty and
Understanding
16. Is Ecosystem Management a Postmodern Science?
Kevin de Laplante
Part VI
CONCLUSION
17. Kuhnian Paradigms Lost: Embracing the pluralism of ecological
theory
A new perspective on some of the major theoretical threads in ecology
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