CHAPTER 8. Experimental Validity and Ecological Scale as Criteria for Evaluating Research Programs

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. FIGURES xiii
4. TABLES xvii
5. CONTRIBUTORS xix
6. PREFACE xxiii
7. PART I. BACKGROUND
8. CHAPTER 1. Scale-Dependence and the Problem of Extrapolation 3
9. PART II. SCALING THEORY
10. CHAPTER 2. Understanding the Problem of Scale in Experimental Ecology 61
11. CHAPTER 3. The Nature of the Scale Issue in Experimentation 89
12. CHAPTER 4. Spatial Allometry 113
13. PART III. SCALING MESOCOSMS TO NATURE
14. CHAPTER 5. Getting It Right and Wrong 157
15. CHAPTER 6. Some Reluctant Ruminations on Scales (and Claws and Teeth) in Marine Mesocosms 179
16. CHAPTER 7. Evaluating and Modeling Foraging Performance of Planktivorous and Piscivorous Fish 191
17. CHAPTER 8. Experimental Validity and Ecological Scale as Criteria for Evaluating Research Programs 223
18. PART IV. SCALE AND EXPERIMENT IN DIFFERENT ECOSYSTEMS
19. CHAPTER 9. Scaling Issues in Experimental Ecology 253
20. CHAPTER 10. Terrestrial Perspectives on Issues of Scale in Experimental Ecology 281
21. CHAPTER 11. Issues of Scale in Land-Margin Ecosystems 299
22. CHAPTER 12. Scaling Issues in Marine Experimental Ecosystems 331
23. INDEX 361