There and back again, or the problem of locality in biodiversity surveys

Philosophy of Science

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 273-294

  Shavit, Ayelet ^a   Griesemer, James ^b  

^a TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 75649104681     PISSN: 00318248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/649805     Document Type: Article

References (45)

1. Begon, Michael, Colin R. Townsend, and John L. Harper (2006), Ecology. 4th ed. Oxford: Blackwell.
2. Bowker, Geoffrey C. (2005), Memory Practices in the Sciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
3. Brandon, Robert (1990), Adaptation and Environment. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
4. Cicero, Carla, and Christopher Conroy (2005), "Locality Data Justification", inMVZBasics. Unpublished collection of documents intended for new workers at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at Berkeley.
5. Collins, Harry M. (1992), Changing Order, Replication and Induction in Scientific Practice. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
6. Elith, Jan, et al. (2006), "Novel Methods Improve Prediction of Species' Distributions from Occurrence Data", Ecography 29: 129-151.
7. Gannett, Lisa, and James Griesemer (2004), "The ABO Blood Groups: Mapping the History and Geography of Genes in Homo sapiens", in Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Jean-Paul Gaudillière (eds.), Classical Genetic Research and Its Legacy: The Mapping Cultures of Twentieth-Century Genetics. London: Routledge, 119-172.
8. Gerson, Elihu (2007), "Reach, Bracket, and the Limits of Rationalized Coordination: Some Challenges for CSCW", in Mark S. Ackerman et al. (eds.), Resources, Co-evolution and Artifacts: Theory in CSCW. Dordrecht: Springer, 193-220.
9. Griesemer, James (2000), "Development, Culture, and the Units of Inheritance", Philosophy of Science 67 (Proceedings): S348-S368.
10. Griesemer, James, and Elihu Gerson (1993), "Collaboration in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology", Journal of the History of Biology 26: 185-203.
11. Griffiths, Paul E., and Russell D. Gray (1994), "Developmental Systems and Evolutionary Explanation", Journal of Philosophy 91: 277-304.
12. - (2001), "Darwinism and Developmental Systems", in Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russel D. Gray (eds.), Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 195-218.
13. Grinnell, Joseph (1910), "The Methods and Uses of a Research Museum", Popular Science Monthly 77: 163-169.
14. - (1917), "Field Tests of Theories Concerning Distributional Control", American Naturalist 51: 115-128.
15. - (1924), "Geography and Evolution", Ecology 5: 225-229.
16. - (1938), "Suggestions as to Collecting", unpublished document, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology Archive.
17. Guisan, Antoine, and Wilfried Thuiller (2005), "Predicting Species Distribution: Offering More than Simple Habitat Models", Ecology Letters 8: 993-1009.
18. Hacking, Ian (1983), Representing and Intervening. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
19. - (1999) The Social Construction of What. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
20. Huston, Michael A. (2002), "Critical Issues for Improving Predictions", in J. Michael Scott et al. (eds.), Predicting Species Occurrences: Issues of Accuracy and Scale. Washington, DC: Island, 7-24.
21. Hutchinson, George Evelyn (1978), An Introduction to Population Ecology. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
22. Kiester, A. Ross (2001), "Species Diversity Overview", in Simon Levin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, vol.5. Dordrecht: Academic, 441-451.
23. Kiester, A. Ross, et al. (1996), "Conservation Prioritization Using GAP Data", Conservation Biology 10: 1332-1342.
24. Kiester, A. Ross, and Denis White (forthcoming), "Two Concepts of Space in the Policy Analysis of Biodiversity," working paper.
25. Kingsland, Sharon E. (1991), "Defining Ecology as a Science", in Leslie A. Real and James H. Brown (eds.), Foundations of Ecology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,1-13.
26. Kohler, Robert A. (2002), Landscapes and Labscapes: Exploring the Field-Lab Border in Biology. Chicago: Chicago University Press.
27. Levin, Simon A. (1992), "The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology", Ecology 73:1943-1967.
28. Levins Richard, and Richard Lewontin (1985), The Dialectical Biologist. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
29. MacKenzie, Darryl I., et al. (2003), "Estimating Site Occupancy, Colonization, and Local Extinction When a Species Is Detected Imperfectly", Ecology 84: 2200-2207.
30. National Research Council (1995), Finding the Forest in the Trees: The Challenge of Combining Diverse Environmental Data. Washington, DC: National Academy.
31. Odling-Smee, John F.,Kevin N. Laland, and MarcusW. Feldman (2003), NicheConstruction: The Neglected Process in Evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
32. Oyama, Susan (2000), The Ontogeny of Information: Developmental Systems and Evolution. 2nd ed. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
33. Oyama, Susan, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russell D. Gray (2001), "What Is Developmental System Theory?", in Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russel D. Gray (eds.), Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1-10.
34. Patton, Jim (2003), "Yosemite 2003 Report", http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Grinnell/Yosemite-Survey-2003.html.
35. Perrine, John (2007), "Data Fields to Capture for Grinnell Resurvey Project", http://mvz.berkeley.edu/Grinnell.html.
36. Peterson A. T., and K. C. Cohoon (1999), "Sensitivity of Distributional Prediction Algorithms to Geographic Data Completeness", Ecological Modeling 117:159-164.
37. Porter, Theodore M. (1995), Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
38. Sarkar, Sahorta (2005), Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
39. Shachak, Moshe, et al. (2008), "Woody Species as Landscape Modulators and Their Effect on Biodiversity Patterns", Bioscience 58: 209-221.
40. Shavit, Ayelet, and James Griesemer (2010a), "Mind the Gaps: Why Are Niche Construction Processes so Rarely Used?", in Eva Jablonka and Snait Gisis (eds.), The Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.
41. - (2010b), "Transforming Objects into Data: How Minute Technicalities of Recording Species Location Entrench a Basic Theoretical Challenge for Biodiversity", in Alfred Nordmann, Martin Carrier, and Astrid Schwartz (eds.), Science in the Context of Application. Bielefeld: Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, forthcoming.
42. Sterelny, Kim (2001), "Niche Construction, Developmental Systems, and the Extended Replicator", in Susan Oyama, Paul E. Griffiths, and Russel D. Gray (eds.), Cycles of Contingency: Developmental Systems and Evolution. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 333-349.
43. - (2003), Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition. Oxford: Blackwell.
44. Wimsatt, William (2007), Re-engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
45. Windelband, Wilhelm ([1894] 1980), "History and Natural Science", History and Theory 19: 169-185.