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Excellence in Ecology

The book series 'Excellence in Ecology' (EE) was founded and is edited by Otto Kinne. It is published by the International Ecology Institute (ECI). EE presents books authored by noted ecologists of our time: the ECI Prize laureates. In a rotating pattern, books are published in the fields of marine, terrestrial or limnetic ecology. EE books address researchers, teachers, students and interested laymen, as well as administrators and politicians professionally engaged in ecology-related decision making. ECI laureates are elected by a jury composed of ECI members, all of high international reputation.

EE books offer laureates a global stage for publicizing their views on important ecological issues, and for interpreting current scientific knowledge on the basis of their own experience and insight

• Book 1: Tom Fenchel (Copenhagen, Denmark): 'Ecology- potentials and limitations', 1987. XIX + 186 pp., euro 35 s
• Book 2: Edward 0. Wilson (Cambridge, MA, USA): 'Success and dominance in ecosystems: the case of the social insects', 1990, XXI + 104 pp., euro 26
• Book 3: Gene E. Likens (Millbrook, NY, USA): 'The ecosystem approach: its use and abuse'. 1992. XXIV + 166 pp., euro31
• Book 4: Robert T. Paine (Seattle, WA, USA): 'Marine rocky shores and community ecology: an experimentalist's perspective', 1994. XXII + 152 pp., euro 31.
• Book 5: Harold A. Mooney (Stanford, CA, USA): 'The globalization of ecological thought',1998. XX + 153 pp., euro31
• Book 6: F. H. Rigler and Robert H. Peters (Montreal, Canada): 'Science and limnology', 1995. XXVI+239 pp.,euro 36
• Book 7: David H. Cushing (Lowestoft, UK): 'Towards a science of recruitment in fish populations', 1996. XXI + 175 pp.,euro30
• Book 8: Paul R. Ehrlich (Stanford, CA, USA): 'A world of wounds: Geologists and the human dilemma', 1997. XXIV + 210 pp., euro33
• Book 9: Colin S. Reynolds (Ambleside, UK): 'Vegetation processes in the pelagic: a model for ecosystem theory', 1997. XXVII + 371 pp., euro35
• Book 10: Ramon Margalef (Barcelona, Spain): 'Our biosphere', 1997. ХХШ + 176 pp., euro25
• Book 11: John H. Lawton (Ascot, UK): 'Community ecology in a changing world', 2000. XXVII+ 227 pp.,euro35

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EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 1

Ecology—Potentials and Limitations

Tom Fenchel
Marine Biological Laboratory, University of Copenhagen, 3000 Helsingor, Denmark
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1986 in marine ecology

Professor Tom Fenchel was elected by the ECI Jury under the Chairmanship of Professor John Gray (University of Oslo, Norway) for his highly significant contributions to ecological knowledge in a variety of research fields. Tom Fenchel was born in Copenhagen (Denmark) in 1940. He obtained his Dr. Phil. degree from the University of Copenhagen in 1969. From 1970 to 1987 he was Full Professor in Ecology and Zoology at the University of Aarhus (Denmark); since March 1987 he has been Full Professor of Marine Biology at the University of Copenhagen, working mainly at the Marine Biological Station in Helsingor.

EE Book 1 is based on the author's long-standing experience and insight both as researcher and teacher. It focusses on important developments in ecological research and sets these in the context of science and society. The book addresses a wide readership concerned with ecology and environmental protection-ranging from students and interested laymen to researchers, teachers, administrators and politicians.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 2

Success and Dominance in Ecosystems:
The Case of the Social Insects

by Edward O. Wilson
Museum of Comparative Zoology, The Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, USA
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1987 in terrestrial ecology

Professor Edward O. Wilson was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor Sir Richard Southwood (University of Oxford, England) for his professional excellence in numerous publications, especially in the fields of population biology, biogeography, sociobiology, biodiversity, and evolutionary biology. Ed Wilson was born in Birmingham, Alabama (USA) in 1929. From Junior Fellow, he progressed at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), to the Frank B. Baird Professorship of Science, also holding the Curatorship of Entomology in the University's Museum of Comparative Zoology. He has received prestigious international awards and is a top figure in current biological and ecological research.

EE Book 2 addresses success and dominance in ecosystems with a mastership acquired over decades of devoted, critical research. Defining 'success' as evolutionary longevity of a clade (a species and its descendants), and 'dominance' as abundance of a clade controlling the appropriation of biomass and energy, Wilson esemplifies his subject by referring to eusocial insects, expecially termites and ants, but also bees and wasps.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 3

The Ecosystem Approach: Its Use and Abuse

Gene E. Likens
Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Box AB, Route 44A, Millbrook, NY 12545-0129, USA
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1988 in limnetic ecology

Professor Gene Elden Likens was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor William D. Williams (University of Adelaide, Australia), primarily for his comprehensive long-term studies of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem (New Hampshire, USA) which provided a model for ecological and biogeochemical studies worldwide. Gene Likens was born in Pierceton, Indiana (USA) in 1935. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then taught at Dartmouth College and Cornell University; he is Vice President of the New York Botanical Garden, and Professor at Cornell, Yale and Rutgers Universities. Gene Likens has also been elected to the American Academy of Sciences in 1979, and the National Academy of Sciences in 1981. He is the recipient of 5 honorary doctorates and of the National Medal of Science Award 2001, the highest scientific honor in the USA.

EE Book 3 benefits from Gene Likens' unique long-term expertise on ecosystem functions and structures. The author elucidates, with a keen sense of critical, systematic inquiry and ethical responsibility, the instrumentarium of modern ecological research. He explains and documents what it can do. And he outlines what, in his opinion, must be done to avoid or reduce anthropogenic damage to our planet.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 4

Marine Rocky Shores and Community Ecology:
An Experimentalist's Perspective

by Robert T. Paine
Department of Zoology NJ-15, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1989 in marine ecology

Professor Robert T. Paine was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor Tom Fenchel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) for his substantial contributions to marine biology and ecology. Paine significantly advanced the understanding of the role of patch formation and of the properties of food web structure in shaping communities of sedentary organisms. His publications have served as guidelines for new mathematical descriptions of community processes, and they further our understanding of 'landscape dynamics' and the development of scientific and conservation ecology. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA), in 1933, our laureate graduated from Harvard College at Cambridge, and then went on to the University of Michigan, where he received his Ph.D. He is now Professor of Zoology at the University of Washington (USA).

Book 4 focuses on population biology and community ecology of rocky intertidal assemblages, viewed from the perspectives of a naturalist and experimentalist. Its primary theme is that the facts garnered by observation or measurement of behaviour, abundance, distribution or habitat features, when explored by appropriate experiments, permit patterns to be explained in terms of their underlying processes.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 5

The Globalization of Ecological Thought

Harold A. Mooney
Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1990 in terrestrial ecology

Professor Harold Mooney was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor John L. Harper (University of Wales, Bangor, UK) for his major contributions to plant ecology and ecophysiology, and environmental biology. Harold Mooney started his research career at Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA) in the early 1960's; he has been a Professor at Stanford University, California (USA) since 1968. Between 1990 and 1998 he was President of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, Vice President and, later, Secretary General of the International Council for Science, and he is a Fellow of the Eco-Ethics International Union.

EE Book 5 covers important recent changes in climate, hydrological cycles, biodiversity, breakdowns in biogeographical barriers, and a variety of human impacts on the delicate balances that have made it possible for life on earth to establish itself and to evolve over billions of years into the multifaceted, wonderful biota that we are privileged to enjoy and utilize today. Much of the book focusses on the responses to these changes by national and international non-governmental and governmental bodies.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 6

Science and Limnology

The late Frank H. Rigler and Robert H. Peters
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1991 in limnetic ecology

Professor Robert H. Peters was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor Jurgen Overbeck (Max-Planck-Institut fur Limnologie, Plon, Germany) for his work on phosphorus cycling in lakes, which provides examples of excellent research and provides important insights into the measurement and availability of phosphorus in aquatic systems. Born in 1946 in Toronto, Canada, he obtained his Ph.D. in 1972 from the University of Toronto under the supervision of Frank H. Rigler, and he subsequently held postdoctoral fellowships in Italy, Austria and Germany. He has been a Professor at McGill University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) since 1974.

Book 6 reaches far into the realms of science history, philosophy and methodology, the significance of science for society, and the research and teaching in universities. Peters presents highlights of Rigler's unpublished notes and ideas and combines them masterfully with his own accomplishments and expertise. The book documents that ecologists have collected impressive amounts of observations and facts, but that they have failed to sufficiently identify and formulate theories which go beyond the facts — theories that can predict.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 7

Towards a Science of Recruitment in Fish Populations

David H. Cushing
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 0HT, UK
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1992 in marine ecology

Professor David Cushing was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor John D. Costlow (Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, North Carolina, USA) for his excellent contributions on the ecology and management of fish stocks; David Cushing also pioneered the study of vertical migrations in planktonic crustaceans, and he was one of the first to consider the effects of climate change on fisheries. Born in Alnwick, England, he studied at Balliol College, Oxford, England, and then joined the Lowestoft Fisheries Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, at which he remained ever since. He has served on numerous advisory councils, e.g. with the International Council for the Exploration of The Sea (ICES), and has received numerous international awards.

EE Book 7 weighs essential information on the conditions that determine reproduction, growth and abundance of commercially valuable fish populations. David H. Cushing takes a close look at environmental and human influences on fish production, and the autecological rules and dynamics of recruitment processes. Cushing's intimate knowledge and solid expertise allow him to outline fascinating details on the birth of a new science — the science of recruitment — and to draft guidelines for developing that science in the years to come.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 8

A World of Wounds: Ecologists and the Human Dilemma

Paul R. Ehrlich
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305, USA
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1993 in terrestrial ecology

Professor Paul R. Ehrlich was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor Harold Mooney (Stanford University, California, USA) for his substantial and sustained contributions to the study of population biology. Ehrlich's concern for environmental quality and environmental justice, and his influence on students, the general public and policy makers is unrivaled. His insights have decisively affected our views of population structure and provided guidelines on the conservation of wild populations. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1932, Paul Ehrlich obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and stayed there as a post-doc until he joined the faculty of the University of Stanford in 1959, where he has been ever since. He has authored several books on the state of the environment and has received numerous international awards, many of them together with his wife Anne.

EE Book 8 presents Paul Ehrlich's view of how ecologists, and virtually all scientists, should contribute to solving the human predicament. Ehrlich draws on a lifetime of experience in field and policy research to describe briefly the deterioration of humanity's life-support systems, and to examine how those professionally most knowledgeable about these systems can work to preserve them.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 9

Vegetation Processes in the Pelagic:
A Model for Ecosystem Theory

Colin S. Reynolds
Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Windermere Laboratory, Far Sawrey, Ambleside, Cumbria LA22 0LP, UK
Recipient of the International Ecology Institute (ECI) Prize 1994 in limnetic ecology

Professor Colin Reynolds was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor William D. Williams (University of Adelaide, Australia), for his outstanding contributions to a better understanding of the role of planktonic algae in aquatic ecosystems. Born in London, England, Colin Reynolds completed his formal education at the University of London. He then joined the Windermere Laboratory of the Freshwater Biological Association, and later the Institute of Freshwater ecology, and he is a former President of the Freshwater Biological Association.

EE Book 9 reflects Colin Reynolds' unusually wide-ranging research interests: from pelagic in situ processes in a variety of aquatic habitats to unifying ecological concepts and theories; from descriptions of pelagic vegetations to interpretations of ecosystem dynamics; from assemblage structures and functions to cellular and even molecular levels of organization. Colin Reynolds formulates principles of ecosystem theory, and applies them to the management and conservation of living resources.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 10

Our Biosphere

Ramon Margalef
Departament d'Ecologia, Facultad de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona, Avda. Diagonal 645, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Recipient of the ECI Prize 1995 in marine ecology

Professor Ramon Margalef was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor Ernest Naylor (University of Wales, Bangor, UK) in acknowledgement of his excellent studies on unicellular algae; his concepts of phytoplankton organization; and his pioneering use of multidimensional statistical analyses. Margalef's contributions to theoretical ecology have made him one of the most frequently quoted contemporary ecologists. Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1919, Ramon Margalef became his country's first Professor of Ecology and built the international reputation of the precursors of today's Institut de Ciences del Mar, Barcelona. He has written several books and been awarded numerous international awards.

EE Book 10 presents the reader with views that have ripened over many decades. Ramon Margalef emphasizes the complex relations between plankton and fluid dynamics: the seas are full of organic seeds waiting for adequate conditions for starting experiments in evolution. This book is the scientific legacy of a visionary who has uniquely influenced our ways of comprehending Nature's many facets of producing, developing and directing life.

EXCELLENCE IN ECOLOGY Book 11

Community Ecology in a Changing World

John H. Lawton
Chief Executive of NERC, Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1EU, UK
Recipient of the ECI Prize 1996 in terrestrial ecology

Professor John Lawton was elected by the ECI Jury chaired by Professor Ilkka Hanski (University of Helsinki, Finland) for his distinguished contributions to community ecology. He is known for his elegant and comprehensive work on folivorous insects. He is also one of the leaders in macroecology, the study of large-scale patterns in animal and plant communities. Born in 1943, John Lawton earned his Ph.D. at the University of Durham (England) and then worked at Oxford, at the University of York, and at Imperial College of the University of London, where he became the first director of the Natural Environment Research Council's Centre for Population Biology. John Lawton has served on the councils of numerous scientific bodies and government agencies, and he is now Chief Executive of the Natural Environmental Research Council of the UK.

EE Book 11 documents John Lawton's insights into community ecology. The book begins by describing field situations in northern England and short-term reductionist experiments. It proceeds towards increasingly complex assemblages, pointing out that short-term, small-scale studies are unlikely to allow useful predictions of global effects. Lawton criticises the insufficient use of models. He advocates concentration on key processes such as competition, trophic interactions and mutualism, as well as long-term system dynamics and whole-system manipulations.