03146nam 2200637 a 450 991045935930332120200520144314.01-282-90195-897866129019590-226-45011-210.7208/9780226450117(CKB)2670000000060993(EBL)616043(OCoLC)741350935(SSID)ssj0000421697(PQKBManifestationID)11274355(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000421697(PQKBWorkID)10416058(PQKB)10352808(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123074(MiAaPQ)EBC616043(DE-B1597)523185(OCoLC)1135566393(DE-B1597)9780226450117(Au-PeEL)EBL616043(CaPaEBR)ebr10431292(CaONFJC)MIL290195(EXLCZ)99267000000006099320020215d2002 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrLandscapes & labscapes[electronic resource] exploring the lab-field border in biology /Robert E. KohlerChicago University of Chicago Pressc20021 online resource (343 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-45010-4 0-226-45009-0 Includes bibliographical references.Front matter --CONTENTS --List of Illustrations --Preface --Chapter 1. Borders and History --Chapter 2. A New Natural History --Chapter 3. Border Crossings --Chapter 4. Taking Nature's Measure --Chapter 5. Experiments in Nature --Chapter 6. Troubled Lives --Chapter 7. Nature's Experiments --Chapter 8. Border Practices --Chapter 9. Border Biology: A Transect --Abbreviations --Bibliography --IndexWhat 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 1890's to the 1950's. 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.BiologyFieldworkElectronic books.BiologyFieldwork.570/.7/2NU 1500rvkKohler Robert E625477MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459359303321Landscapes & labscapes2125335UNINA