Ecological Scale

DAVID L. PETERSON is a research biologist at the U.S. Geological Servey Biological Resources Division and Survey and professor at the College of Forest Resources at the University of Washington. He is coeditor with D. R. Johnson of Human Ecology and Climate Change: People and Resources in the Far North, and with C. V. Climas of The Role of Restoration in Ecosystem Management.V. THOMAS PARKER is professor of biology at San Francisco State University. He is coeditor, with M. A. Leck, and R. L. Simpson of Ecology of Soil Seed Banks.

• , by T. F. H. Allen and David W. Roberts, Series Editors Integrating Pattern, Process, and Scale Homage to St. Michael; or, Why Are There So Many Books on Scale?, by R. V. O'Neill and A. W. King Pattern, Process, and the Analysis of Spatial Scales, by Robert H. Gardner The Landscape "Level" Is Dead: Persuading the Family to Take It Off the Respirator, by T. F. H. Allen A Hierarchical View of Habitat and Its Relationship to Species Abundance, by Jurek Kolasa and Nigel Waltho Interpreting Multiple Scales in Ecological Systems Paleoecological Perspectives on Ecological Scale, by Peter K. Schoonmaker Space and Time in the Soil Landscape: The Ill-Defined Ecological Universe, by R. David Hammer Ecosystem Organization Across a Continuum of Scales: A Comparative Analysis of Lakes and Rivers, by Claudia Pahl-Wostl Historical Contingency and Multiple Scales of Dynamics Within Plant Communities, by V. Thomas Parker and Steward T. A. Pickett Spatial Scaling and Animal Population Dynamics, by Brett J. Goodwin and Lenore Fahrig Time, Space, and Beyond: Scale Issues in Food-Web Research, by Neo D. Martinez and Jennifer A. Dunne Defining Ecologically Relevant Change in the Process of Scaling Up: Implications for Monitoring at the "Landscape" Level, by G. A. Bradshaw Moving Across Scales: Ecological Inference and Applications Applied Scaling Theory, by David C. Schneider Remote Sensing Applications in Ecosystem Analysis, by John Vande Castle Field Studies of Large Mobile Organisms: Scale, Movement, and Habitat Utilization, by S. Jonathan Stern Scaling and Integration in Trees, by T. M. Hinckley, D. G. Sprugel, J. R. Brooks, K. J. Brown, T. A. Martin, D. A. Ro From Forest Stands to Landscapes: Spatial Scales and the Roles of Disturbances, by Ken Lertzman and Joseph Fall Incorporating Scale in Ecological Experiments: Study Design, by Pierre Dutilleul Pierre Dutilleul Incorporating Scale Concepts in Ecological Applications Measuring Environmental Change, by John L. Innes Managing Ecological Systems and Processes, by Richard J. Hobbs Relationships of Scale to Policy and Decision Making, by Edward J. Rykiel Jr. Dimensions of Scale in Ecology, Resource Management, and Society, by David L. Peterson and V. Thomas Parker