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Medicine, Military --- Research --- Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (U.S.)

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Agricultural Research Service --- Control --- Insect pests --- National Research Programs --- United States

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In Big Ecology, David C. Coleman documents his historically fruitful ecological collaborations in the early years of studying large ecosystems in the United States. As Coleman explains, the concept of the ecosystem-a local biological community and its interactions with its environment-has given rise to many institutions and research programs, like the National Science Foundation's program for Long Term Ecological Research. Coleman's insider account of this important and fascinating trend toward big science takes us from the paradigm of collaborative interdisciplinary research, starting with the International Geophysical Year (IGY) of 1957, through the International Biological Program (IBP) of the late 1960's and early 1970's, to the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) programs of the 1980's.

Biotic communities --- Ecosystem management --- Ecology --- Interdisciplinary research. --- Research. --- 1957. --- 1960s. --- 1970s. --- 1980s. --- american ecosystems. --- big science. --- biological communities. --- ecological collaborations. --- ecologists. --- ecology. --- ecosystem science. --- environment. --- insider perspective. --- interdisciplinary research. --- international biological program. --- international geophysical year. --- large ecosystems. --- long term ecological research programs. --- long term ecological research. --- national science foundation. --- nonfiction account. --- research institutions. --- research programs. --- science majors. --- study of ecosystems. --- textbooks. --- united states.

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Technical assistance, Canadian --- Rural development --- Developpement economique --- Pays en voie de developpement --- Rural development. --- Technical assistance, Canadian. --- Research programs --- Developing Countries. --- Social Planning. --- International Cooperation. --- Development assistance --- --International cooperation --- --Periodicals. --- Developing countries --- Developing countries. --- --Canada --- --Periodicals --- International cooperation

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Recent and ongoing debates in biology and the philosophy of biology reveal a widespread dissatisfaction with traditional explanatory frameworks. There are also problems with the current definitions or circumscriptions of key concepts such as gene, species, and homology, and even of whole disciplinary fields within the life sciences, e.g. developmental biology. These contrasting views are arguably a symptom of the need to revisit traditional, unchallenged partitions between the specialist disciplines within the life sciences. In the diversity of topics addressed and approaches to move beyond the current disciplinary organization, the five essays in this volume will hopefully stimulate further exploration towards an improved articulation of life sciences.

Research & information: general --- Biology, life sciences --- research programs --- scientific pluralism --- taxonomic theory --- taxonomic pluralisms --- typology --- phylogenetics --- biosystematics --- numerical taxonomy --- biomorphics --- evo-devo --- nomadic concept --- nomadic discipline --- anchor concept --- anchor discipline --- life cycle --- generation --- organizational module --- species --- evolutionary developmental biology --- evolutionary extended synthesis --- theory of development --- active inference --- attention --- development --- evolution --- language --- memory --- pragmatics --- reference frames --- scale-free cognition --- self --- stigmergy --- process philosophy --- scientific perspectivism --- developmental genetics --- plant structure ontology --- homology --- land plant phylogeny --- morphological misfits --- flower --- phyllotaxis --- Utricularia --- n/a