Defining the problem: Terminology and progress in ecology

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 35-42

  Hodges, Karen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL THEORY; ECOLOGY; LANGUAGE; STANDARDIZATION; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 38949172363     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/060108     Document Type: Review

References (53)

1. Barber EW and Barber PT. 2004. When they severed earth from sky: how the human mind shapes myth. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
2. Baugh AC and Cable T. 1978. A history of the English language, 3rd edn. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
3. Booth BD and Larson DW. 1999. Impact of language, history, and choice of system on the study of assembly rules. In: Weiher E and Keddy P (Eds). Ecological assembly rules. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
4. Bowker GC and Star SL. 1999. Sorting things out: classification and its consequences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. Burian RM. 1985. On conceptual change in biology: the case of the gene. In: Depew DJ and Weber BH (Eds). Evolution at a cross-roads: the new biology and the new philosophy of science. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Camus PA and Lima M. 2002. Populations, metapopulations, and the open-closed dilemma: the conflict between operational and natural concepts. Oikos 97: 433-38.
7. Carpenter JR. 1938. An ecological glossary. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
8. Ceccarelli L. 2001. Shaping science with rhetoric: the cases of Dobzhansky, Schrödinger, and Wilson. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
9. Colautti RI and MacIsaac HJ. 2004. A neutral terminology to define "invasive" species. Div Distr 10: 135-41.
10. Commoner B. 2002. Unraveling the DNA myth: the spurious foundation of genetic engineering. Harper's 304: 39-47.
11. Daehler CC. 2001. Two ways to be an invader, but one is more suitable for ecology. B Ecol Soc Am 82: 101-02.
12. Davis MA and Thompson K. 2000. Eight ways to be a colonizer; two ways to be an invader: a proposed nomenclature scheme for invasion ecology. B Ecol Soc Am 81: 226-30.
13. Davis MA and Thompson K. 2001. Invasion ecology: should ecologiste define their terms differently than others? No, not if we want to be of any help! B Ecol Soc Am 82: 206.
14. Eggleton FE and Clarke GL. 1952. Report of the committee on nomenclature of the Ecological Society of North America at the Cornell University meeting, September 1952.
15. Ford ED. 2000. Scientific method for ecological research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
16. Grimm V and Wissel C. 1997. Babel, or the ecological stability discussions: an inventory and analysis of terminology and a guide for avoiding confusion. Oecologia 109: 323-34.
17. Hall LS, Krausman PR, and Morrison ML. 1997. The habitat concept and a plea for standard terminology. Wildlife Soc B 25: 173-82.
18. Hanson HC. 1962. Dictionary of ecology. New York, NY: Philosophical Library.
19. Hull DL. 1968. The operational imperative: sense and nonsense in operatjonism. Syst Zool 17: 438-57.
20. Jax K, Zauke G-P, and Vareschi E. 1992. Remarks on terminology and the description of ecological systems. Ecol Model 63: 133-41.
21. Jones CG, Lawton JH, and Shachak M. 1997. Ecosystem engineering by organisms: why semantics matters. Trends Ecol Evol 12: 275.
22. Keller EF. 2000. The century of the gene. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
23. Landau SI. 2001. Dictionaries: the art and craft of lexicography. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
24. Levins R. 1969. Some demographic and genetic consequences of environmental heterogeneity for biological control. B Entomol Soc Am 15: 237-40.
25. Lewis WH. 1977. Ecology field glossary. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.
26. Li H and Reynolds JF. 1995. On definition and quantification of heterogeneity. Oikos 73: 280-84.
27. Lincoln RJ, Boxshall GA, and Clarke PF. 1982. A dictionary of ecology, evolution, and systematics. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
28. Locke D. 1992. Science as writing. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
29. Lynch M. 1993. Commentary: representing reference, or how to say "fish". Soc Epist 7: 355-58.
30. McIntosh RP. 1999. The succession of succession: a lexical chronology. B Ecol Soc Am 80: 256-65.
31. Mikkelson GM. 1997. Methods and metaphors in community ecology: the problem of defining stability. Perspect Sci 5: 481-98.
32. Mills LS, Soule ME, and Doak DF. 1993. The keystone-species concept in ecology and conservation. BioScience 43: 219-24.
33. Mishler BD and Donahue MJ. 1982. Species concepts: a case for pluralism. Syst Zool 31: 491-503.
34. Morrison ML. 2001. A proposed research emphasis to overcome the limits of wildlife-habitat relationship studies. J Wildl Manage 65: 613-23.
35. Niven BS. 1982. Formalization of the basic concepts of animal ecology. Erkenntnis 17: 307-20.
36. Nobis M and Wohlgemuth T. 2004. Trend words in ecological core journals over the last 25 years (1978-2002). Oikos 106: 411-21.
37. Norman G. 2002. Description and prescription in dictionaries of scientific terms. Int J Lexicogr 15: 259-76.
38. Odenbaugh J. 2001. Ecological stability, model building, and environmental policy: a reply to some of the pessimism. Phil Sci 68: S493-S505.
39. Oyama S. 2000. The ontogeny of information developmental systems and evolution. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
40. Paine RT. 1969. A note on trophic complexity and community stability. Am Nat 103: 91-93.
41. Peters RH. 1991. A critique for ecology. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
42. Pickett STA and Cadenasso ML. 2002. The ecosystem as a multidimensional concept: meaning, model, and metaphor. Ecosystems 5: 1-10.
43. Power ME, Tilman D, Estes JA, et al. 1996. Challenges in the quest for keystones. BioScience 46: 609-20.
44. Regan HM, Colyvan M, and Burgman MA. 2002. A taxonomy and treatment of uncertainty for ecology and conservation biology. Ecol Appl 12: 618-28.
45. Richardson DM, Pysek P, Rejmanek M, et al. 2000. Naturalization and invasion of alien plants: concepts and definitions. Div Distr 6: 93-107.
46. Rojas M. 1992. The species problem and conservation: what are we protecting? Conserv Biol 6: 170-78.
47. Shelford VE, Allee WC, Weese AO, et al. 1931. Proceedings: business meetings of the Ecological Society of America at Cleveland, Ohio, December 31, 1930 and January 1, 1931. Ecology 12: 427-38.
48. Shrader-Frechette KS and McCoy ED. 1993. Method in ecology: strategies for conservation. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
49. Sorokin P. 1956. Fads and foibles in modern sociology and related sciences. Chicago, IL: Henry Regency Company.
50. Takacs D. 1997. The idea of biodiversity: philosophies of paradise. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
51. Tischendorf L and Fahrig L. 2000. On the usage and measurement of landscape connectivity. Oikos 90: 7-19.
52. Wells JV and Richmond ME. 1995. Populations, metapopulations, and species populations: what are they and who should care? Wildl Soc B 23: 458-62.
53. Williams GC. 1998. Collocational networks: interlocking patterns of lexis in a corpus of plant biology research articles. Int J Corpus Ling 3: 151-71.