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Book Reviews Ecology, 93(3), 2012, pp. 690–691 Ó 2012 by the Ecological Society of America The interplay between place-based research and ecological theory Billick, Ian, and Mary V. Price, editors. 2010. The ecology of place: contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. xiii þ 464 p. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-226-05042-3 (alk. paper); $45.00 (paper), ISBN: 978-0-226-05043-0 (alk. paper). and early interest in a form of adaptive management led to his understanding of the connectedness of ecological systems. Part 2, ‘‘The idiosyncrasy of place: challenges and opportunities,’’ explores how place-based research can gain understanding from the inherent spatial and temporal variability of ‘‘place.’’ In Chapter 4, Pulliam and Waser consider invariance in ecological systems and argue for viewing variability as an opportunity, not a problem, partly by comparing multiple places. They conclude with a discussion of the value of a ‘‘natural history intuition’’ and of developing multiple working hypotheses iteratively over time spent in ‘‘places.’’ Chapter 5 (Rundel), again arguing for comparing places, is an overview of our understanding of convergence and divergence in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Obviously, the spatial scale of ‘‘place’’ in this chapter is vastly greater than that in others. Although emphases and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Ecology Ecological Society of America

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Ecological Society of America
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Ecology, 93(3), 2012, pp. 690–691 Ó 2012 by the Ecological Society of America The interplay between place-based research and ecological theory Billick, Ian, and Mary V. Price, editors. 2010. The ecology of place: contributions of place-based research to ecological understanding. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. xiii þ 464 p. $120.00 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-226-05042-3 (alk. paper); $45.00 (paper), ISBN: 978-0-226-05043-0 (alk. paper). and early interest in a form of adaptive management led to his understanding of the connectedness of ecological systems. Part 2, ‘‘The idiosyncrasy of place: challenges and opportunities,’’ explores how place-based research can gain understanding from the inherent spatial and temporal variability of ‘‘place.’’ In Chapter 4, Pulliam and Waser consider invariance in ecological systems and argue for viewing variability as an opportunity, not a problem, partly by comparing multiple places. They conclude with a discussion of the value of a ‘‘natural history intuition’’ and of developing multiple working hypotheses iteratively over time spent in ‘‘places.’’ Chapter 5 (Rundel), again arguing for comparing places, is an overview of our understanding of convergence and divergence in Mediterranean-climate ecosystems. Obviously, the spatial scale of ‘‘place’’ in this chapter is vastly greater than that in others. Although emphases and

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