LEADER 05462nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910784548203321 005 20230120004819.0 010 $a1-280-63052-3 010 $a9786610630523 010 $a0-08-045786-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000364710 035 $a(EBL)270095 035 $a(OCoLC)476001456 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000142943 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164650 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000142943 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10109226 035 $a(PQKB)11589127 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC270095 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL270095 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10138115 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL63052 035 $a(OCoLC)73174076 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000364710 100 $a20051018d2005 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEcological paradigms lost$b[electronic resource] $eroutes of theory change /$f[editors] Kim Cuddington, Beatrix E. Beisner 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aBoston $cElsevier Academic Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (459 p.) 225 1 $aTheoretical ecology series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-12-088459-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword; PREFACE; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; 1: WHY A HISTORY OF ECOLOGY? AN INTRODUCTION; REFERENCES; PART I: POPULATION ECOLOGY; 2: UNSTRUCTURED MODELS IN ECOLOGY: PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 THE BASIC (DETERMINISTIC) UNSTRUCTURED MODELS; 2.3 SINGLE SPECIES; 2.3.1 Continuous Time; 2.3.2 Discrete Time; 2.4 TWO SPECIES; 2.4.1 Continuous Time Exploiter-Victim Models; 2.4.2 Nicholson-Bailey Discrete Time Models; 2.4.3 SIR Epidemiological Models; 2.4.4 Competition; 2.5 MORE THAN TWO SPECIES; 2.6 TIME SERIES AND MODEL FITTING; 2.7 THE FUTURE OF UNSTRUCTURED MODELS 327 $aACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES; 3: UNSTRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS: DO POPULATION-LEVEL ASSUMPTIONS YIELD GENERAL THEORY?; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 CORE THEORY OR LIMITING CASE?; 3.3 DERIVING GENERAL POPULATION MODELS: STARTING WITH THE INDIVIDUAL; 3.4 THREE CASE STUDIES; 3.4.1 Consumer-Resource Interactions; 3.4.2 Tritrophic Food Chain; 3.4.3 Cannibalism; 3.4.4 Overall Conclusions; 3.5 AN APPROPRIATE MODELLING FRAMEWORK: PHYSIOLOGICALLY STRUCTURED POPULATION MODELS; 3.6 ON TESTABILITY; 3.7 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUDING REMARKS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES 327 $a4: THE "STRUCTURE" OF POPULATION ECOLOGY: PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON UNSTRUCTURED AND STRUCTURED MODELS 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 MODELS, MODELS, AND MORE MODELS; 4.3 REVISITING MODELLING TRADE-OFFS; 4.4 GENERALITY?; 4.5 REDUCTIONISM REDUX; 4.6 STRUCTURAL PLURALISM; 4.7 CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; REFERENCES; PART II: EPIDEMIOLOGICAL ECOLOGY; 5: THE LAW OF MASS-ACTION IN EPIDEMIOLOGY: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; 5.1 INTRODUCTION; 5.2 CATO MAXIMILIAN GULDBERG AND PETER WAAGE; 5.3 WILLIAM HEATON HAMER; 5.4 RONALD ROSS AND ANDERSON McKENDRICK; 5.5 HERBERT EDWARD SOPER; 5.6 A SCIENCE TAKING FLIGHT 327 $aACKNOWLEDGEMENTS REFERENCES; 6: EXTENSIONS TO MASS-ACTION MIXING; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 FUNCTIONAL FORMS; 6.3 METAPOPULATION MODELS; 6.4 CELLULAR AUTOMATA; 6.5 NETWORK MODELS; 6.6 ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS: POWER-LAW EXPONENTS; 6.7 ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS: PAIR-WISE MODELS; 6.8: ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATIONS: MOMENT CLOSURE; 6.9: CONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; 7: MASS-ACTION AND SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF INFECTION TRANSMISSION; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 MODEL FORMS AS PARADIGMS FOR THEORY CHANGE; 7.3 ROBUSTNESS ASSESSMENT; 7.4 ADVANCING A SCIENCE OF INFECTION TRANSMISSION SYSTEM ANALYSIS; REFERENCES 327 $aPART III: COMMUNITY ECOLOGY 8: COMMUNITY DIVERSITY AND STABILITY: CHANGING PERSPECTIVES AND CHANGING DEFINITIONS; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 HISTORY; 8.3 MULTIPLE TYPES OF STABILITY IN A MODEL ECOSYSTEM; 8.3.1 The 1970's and 1980's; 8.3.2 The 1950's and 1960's; 8.3.3 The 1990's; 8.3.4 Summary; 8.4 TESTING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN DIVERSITY AND STABILITY; 8.4.1 The 1950's and 1960's; 8.4.2 The 1970's and 1980's; 8.4.3 The 1990's; 8.4.4 Summary; 8.5 SUGGESTIONS FOR SPECIFIC "TESTS"; Q1: What Is the Most Appropriate Measure of Diversity?; Q2: How Strong Are Species Interactions, and Are They Linear and Additive? 327 $aQ3: What Dictates the Structure of Communities? 330 $aThis edited volume in the Theoretical Ecology series addresses the historical development and evolution of theoretical ideas in the field of ecology. Not only does it recount the history of the discipline by practitioners of the science of ecology, it includes commentary on these historical reflections by philosophers of science. Even though the theories discussed are, in many cases, are at the forefront of research, the language and approach make this material accessible to non-theoreticians. The book is structured in 5 major sections including population ecology, epidemiology 410 0$aTheoretical ecology series. 606 $aEcology$xHistory 606 $aEcology$xPhilosophy 615 0$aEcology$xHistory. 615 0$aEcology$xPhilosophy. 676 $a577.01 701 $aCuddington$b Kim$01502180 701 $aBeisner$b Beatrix E$01528759 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784548203321 996 $aEcological paradigms lost$93772591 997 $aUNINA