Landscapes and Labscapes
Exploring the Lab-Field Border in Biology
- Contents

Preface
Chapter 1 Borders and History
Field and Lab in Biology
Lab and Field as Place
Borders and Frontiers
An Overview, with Caveats
Chapter 2 A New Natural History
The New Natural History
New Naturalists and Educational Reform
Labscapes: Marine Stations and Biological Farms
Labscapes: Vivaria and Field Stations
Conclusion
Chapter 3 Border Crossings
The Rise and Decline of Biometry
Ecology: Physiology or Natural History?
Up "Brush Creek" and Back Again
Guardians of the Faith: Genetics and Physiology
Conclusion
Chapter 4 Taking Nature’s Measure
Trust in Numbers: Quadrates
Taking Nature’s Measure: Instruments
Plant-Machine: Atmometers and Phytometers
Instrumental Eye: The Camera
Making the Place Right: Forrest Shreve
Conclusion
Chapter 5 Experiments in Nature
Experimental Evolution
Shifting Ground: Field and Lab
Experiments in Nature: Ecology
Experimental Taxonomy: Harvey M. Hall and Jens Clausen
Conclusion
Chapter 6 Troubled Lives
Midlife Crises: Ecology
Ends and Means: Experimental Evolution
Identity
Genetics, True and False
Physiologists and the Field
Conclusion
Chapter 7 Nature’s Experiments
Nature’s Experiments
Places in Process
Reading Places
Physiographic Ecology
Panoramas
Evolution
Conclusion
Chapter 8 Border Practices
Geographical Speciation: Ernst Mayr
Hybrid Integration: Edgar Anderson
Ecosystem Ecology: Raymond Lindeman
Gradients and Continua: Robert Whittaker
Conclusion
Chapter 9 Border Biology: A Transect
The Border Zone: A Bird’s-Eye View
Conclusion
Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index
Biological Sciences: Behavioral Biology | Ecology | Evolutionary Biology | Tropical Biology and Conservation
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