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2012 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Introduction
A Time of Change and Adaptation in Ecology
Authors : Rafe Sagarin, Aníbal Pauchard
Published in: Observation and Ecology
Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
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Abstract
All of us are living in a time of transformation — economic, social, political, and environmental changes are challenging us everywhere and constantly. It seems obvious, then, that the science of ecology, which deals with the tangled web of relationships between organisms and the biogeochemical world we live in, should also be in a transformative period. The methods, goals, participants, and even philosophies of ecology are changing. The changes we are seeing now are wrought from a convergence of unprecedented environmental challenges and remarkable new opportunities to study ecological systems. Both the signal of this change in ecological science and the vehicle for ongoing transformation is how we use observation to discover new phenomena, to achieve ecological understanding, and to share ecological ideas.