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- A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Forrest Shreve
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: University of Arizona Press
summary
Forrest Shreve (1878-1950) was an internationally known plant ecologist who spent most of his career at the Carnegie Institution's Desert Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Shreve's contributions to the study of plant ecology laid the groundwork for modern studies and several of his works came to be regarded as classics by ecologists worldwide. This first full-length study of Shreve's life and work demonstrates that he was more than a desert ecologist. His early work in Maryland and Jamaica gave him a breadth of expertise matched by few of his ecological contemporaries, and his studies of desert plant demography, the physiological ecology of rain-forest plants, and vegetational gradients on southwestern mountain ranges anticipated by decades recent trends in ecology.
Tracing Shreve's development from student to scientist, Bowers evokes the rigors and delights of fieldwork in the first half of this century and shows how Shreve's sense of place informed his scientific thought—making him, in his own words, "not an exile from some better place, but a man at home in an environment to which his life can be adjusted without physical or intellectual loss."
Tracing Shreve's development from student to scientist, Bowers evokes the rigors and delights of fieldwork in the first half of this century and shows how Shreve's sense of place informed his scientific thought—making him, in his own words, "not an exile from some better place, but a man at home in an environment to which his life can be adjusted without physical or intellectual loss."
Table of Contents
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- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- His Home the Desert
- pp. 1-8
- Getting Experience
- pp. 9-17
- A Good Fit All Around
- pp. 18-23
- The Limbo of Controversy
- pp. 24-30
- Energy, Push, and Solid Horse Sense
- pp. 31-41
- Tumamocville
- pp. 42-46
- The Shifting Panorama
- pp. 47-55
- Point and Counterpoint
- pp. 56-62
- Mountain Islands
- pp. 63-67
- Our Mutual Arbeit
- pp. 68-77
- A Place in the Sun
- pp. 78-83
- The Finest Trip
- pp. 84-90
- A Wider Outlook
- pp. 91-99
- A Splendid Field for Work
- pp. 100-109
- Understanding Desert Life
- pp. 110-123
- A Model and a Classic
- pp. 124-137
- A Bitter Shock
- pp. 138-148
- Weaving the Threads
- pp. 149-152
- Notes to the Chapters
- pp. 155-172
- Bibliography
- pp. 173-184
- About the Author
- p. 196
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816533220
Related ISBN(s)
9780816510726
MARC Record
OCLC
967538776
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-05
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1988