Lawrence B. Slobodkin

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#2468

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#3906

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#1100

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Ecology

#173

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#195

Historical Rank

#81

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According to Wikipedia, Lawrence Basil Slobodkin was an American ecologist and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He was one of the leading pioneers of modern ecology. His innovative thinking and research, provocative teaching, and visionary leadership helped transform ecology into a modern science, with deep links to evolution.

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Lawrence B. Slobodkin's Published Works

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Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition (1960) (3240)
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (1992) (1237)
A Critique for Ecology (1991) (965)
Growth and regulation of animal populations (1962) (731)
Philosophy of Biology (1993) (545)
An Optimal Strategy of Evolution (1974) (346)
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1996) (256)
Regulation in Terrestrial Ecosystems, and the Implied Balance of Nature (1967) (246)
Quasiextinction Probabilities as a Measure of Impact on Population Growth (1982) (239)
Population Dynamics in Daphnia obtusa Kurz (1954) (213)
The evolution of phage lysis timing (1996) (173)
The Science and Values of Restoration Ecology (2004) (164)
Energy in Animal Ecology (1962) (161)
A history of the ecosystem concept in ecology: More than the sum of the parts (1994) (148)
Ecological Energy Relationships at the Population Level (1960) (139)
On the contribution of environmental predictability to species diversity. (1969) (136)
PROMETHEAN FIRE: REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF MIND. (1983) (123)
The good, the bad and the reified (2001) (122)
Experimental Populations of Hydrida (1964) (119)
The Ecological Web The Ecological Web: More on the Distribution and Abundance of Animals H. G. Andrewartha L. C. Birch (1986) (118)
How To Be a Predator (1968) (118)
Prudent Predation Does Not Require Group Selection (1974) (111)
THE STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION. (1964) (96)
Intellectual Problems of Applied EcologyApplied problems can guide ecology just as clinical problems focus medical research (1988) (86)
Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a Language among Bees (1990) (83)
The ‘paradox’ of polyembryony: A review of the cases and a hypothesis for its evolution (1997) (78)
Theoretical Biology: Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order from Complex Systems (1990) (73)
The Effect of Removal of Fixed Percentages of the Newborn on Size and Variability in Populations of Daphnia pulicaria (Forbes) (1956) (69)
The effect of grazing by the detritivore Orchestia grillus on Spartina litter and its associated microbial community (1977) (67)
Energetics in Daphnia Pulex Populations (1959) (65)
Trace gas emissions and species-dependent ecosystem services. (2002) (59)
The Effect of the Cleaner-Fish Labroides dimidiatus on the Point Diversity of Fishes on the Reef Front at Eilat (1974) (59)
What is cyclomorphosis (1987) (46)
Rangings of the Mind. (Book Reviews: Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method.; Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect.) (1992) (43)
Floating in Hydra Littoralis (1966) (43)
The adaptive significance of cultural behavior: Comments and reply (1977) (43)
Restoration ecology : the challenge of social values and expectations (2017) (38)
Preliminary Ideas for a Predictive Theory of Ecology (1961) (30)
AN ALGEBRA OF POPULATION GROWTH (1953) (30)
The theory of population dynamics—II. Physiological delays (1988) (29)
The Role of Minimalism in Art and Science (1986) (29)
An "audience effect" for ecological terminology: use and misuse of jargon (1997) (22)
A Citizen's Guide to Ecology (2003) (22)
A Summary of the Special Feature and Comments on Its Theoretical Context and Importance (1992) (21)
The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection (2016) (20)
The 'paradox' of polyembryony. (1995) (18)
Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research.William Bechtel , Robert C. Richardson (1994) (18)
Aspects of the Future of Ecology (1968) (18)
Responses of Hydra Oligactis to Temperature and Feeding Rate (1976) (16)
George Evelyn Hutchinson: 20th-century ecologist (1999) (14)
Evolution is no help. (1977) (12)
THE EFFECT OF FAST, AND REGENERATION IN LIGHT VS DARK, ON REGULATION IN THE HYDRA-ALGAL SYMBIOSIS' (1983) (12)
ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS (1980) (12)
Stochastic Population Models in Ecology (1961) (12)
The Null Case of the Paradox of the Plankton (1989) (12)
Conditions for Population Equilibrium (1955) (11)
IS HISTORY A CONSEQUENCE OF EVOLUTION (1978) (11)
Scientific Goals Require Literal Empirical Assumptions. (1993) (10)
9. On the Susceptibility of Different Species to Extinction: Elementary Instructions for Owners of a World (1988) (9)
An Appreciation: George Evelyn Hutchinson (1993) (9)
The Acceleration of Evolution (1952) (9)
Chapter 5 – Cnidaria (2010) (8)
The Availability of a Miniature Bomb Calorimeter for Ecology (1960) (8)
A review of some physiological and evolutionary aspects of body size and bud size of Hydra (1991) (8)
On Social Single Species Populations (1953) (8)
Meta‐Models in Theoretical Ecology (1958) (6)
Mind, bind, and ecology: A review of Gregory Bateson's collected essays (1974) (6)
Toward a Global Perspective (1984) (6)
The connection between single species and ecosystems (1994) (6)
Closed regenerative life support systems for space travel: their development poses fundamental questions for ecological science. (1979) (5)
ON THE EVOLUTIONARY CONSTRAINT SURFACE OF HYDRA (1983) (5)
Complexity and function of mind in nature (1997) (5)
Skepticism in the apiary (1991) (4)
Evolution of Science (1989) (4)
The Light and the Way in Evolution (1966) (4)
The Growth of Populations (1976) (4)
Islands of peril and pleasure (1996) (4)
What have I learned about deserts (1989) (4)
Environmental fluctuations: How do they affect the topography of the adaptive landscape? (1986) (4)
Physiological profiles and demographic rates in relation to food quantity and predictability: An optimization approach (1989) (4)
My complete works and more (2009) (3)
Natural Philosophy Rampant (1986) (3)
Perspecives in Ecological Theory. Ramón Margalef. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1968. viii + 112 pp., illus. $4.50. Chicago Series in Biology (1969) (3)
Systems Analysis in Ecology. Kenneth E. F. Watt, Ed. Academic Press, New York, 1966. xiv + 276 pp., illus. $11.50 (1968) (3)
The Peculiar Evolutionary Strategy of Man (1983) (3)
Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations@@@Growth and Regulation of Animal Populations (1963) (3)
Relation between species lists and tolerance to nematicides. (1980) (2)
A Reply to Jordan (1969) (2)
LISTENING TO A SYMPOSIUM - A SUMMARY AND PROSPECTUS (1981) (2)
Organisms in Communities (1966) (2)
Book Review:Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Leslie A. Real, James H. Brown (1992) (2)
The Null Case of the Paradox of the Plankton: After Dinner Address at MSRC Conference on Blooms October 27, 1988 (2013) (2)
A Tragedy of Science and Politics (1976) (1)
European Ecosystems. Biogeographica, Volume 15.Giorgio Marcuzzi (1981) (1)
How to be Important (1996) (1)
Kudos for Human Ecology Analysis (1982) (1)
Philosophical Imperatives Philosophy of Biology Elliott Sober (1994) (1)
Epiphanies, stars, and bookkeepers (1992) (1)
A Distorting Mirror for Our Time (1990) (1)
Discordant harmonies: by Daniel B. Botkin, Oxford University Press, 1990. £8.95 pbk (xii + 241 pages) ISBN 0 19 507469 6 (1993) (1)
Ecology and disparities of size (1992) (1)
Just before Watson and Crick (2003) (1)
Book Review:Heredity, Environment, and Personality. A Study of 850 Sets of Twins John C. Loehlin, Robert C. Nichols (1978) (1)
Coral Reefs.Yossi Loya , Ramy Klein (1997) (1)
Book Review:Living in a Patchy Environment. Bryan Shorrocks, Ian R. Swingland (1991) (1)
What Is "Molecular Ecology?" (1951) (1)
Yet Another Intellectual Revolution (1993) (1)
Complexity as Subject (1991) (1)
Glosses on lindeman — the ramifications of an innocent physicalism (1987) (1)
What's New in the Evolution Game? (1988) (1)
Linking Species and Ecosystems Through Training of Students (1995) (1)
What Comes After Postmodern Classification (1995) (1)
Tropical Biology in London (1970) (1)
Book Review:The Environment: As I See It, Science Is Not Enough Bruce Wallace (2000) (1)
Predictions, Tautologies, Prejudices, Convictions (1993) (1)
Gaia: Hoke and Substance (1993) (1)
Limits to Biodiversity (Species Packing) (2001) (1)
The progress of ecology: seventy-five years in ecology. (1988) (1)
A Tragedy of Science and Politics (1969) (1)
How to Begin Beginning Biology. (1996) (1)
Book Review:Superior Beings: If They Exist, How Would We Know? Game-Theoretic Implications of Omniscience, Omnipotence, Immortality, and Incomprehensibility. Steven J. Brams (1985) (1)
Evolution and Life Histories (1984) (1)
General and Theoretical: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. Gregory Bateson. (1982) (1)
The meaning of “evolutionary law” (1981) (1)
Book Review:Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity. T. F. H. Allen, Thomas B. Starr (1983) (1)
A nutrient-based view of plant¿herbivore interactions (2006) (1)
Entropy, Information and All That (1969) (1)
A LABORATORY STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF REMOVAL OF NEW BORN ANIMALS FROM A POPULATION. (1957) (1)
Old wine, new flasks: Reflections on science and jewish tradition (1998) (1)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Stony Brook Mill Pond Project : results and discussion (1985) (0)
Pathfinding in Ecology. (Book Reviews: Perspectives in Ecological Theory) (1969) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Completeness and Craft Standards in Ecological Theory (1980) (0)
Spring Systematics Symposium Field Museum of Natural History (2016) (0)
UpdateBook ReviewA nutrient-based view of plant–herbivore interactionsWhy Does the World Stay Green? Nutrition and Survival of Plant-Eaters, T.C.R. White, CSIRO Publishing (2005), £15.95, pbk (128 pages), ISBN: 0643091580 (2006) (0)
Science and limnology (1995) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Pathfinding in Ecology: Perspectives in Ecological Theory . Ramón Margalef. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1968. viii + 112 pp., illus. $4.50. Chicago Series in Biology. (1969) (0)
The Peculiar Evolutionary Strategy of Man in Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences. (1983) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Book reviews (1977) (0)
Ecological Resources in New York State's Colleges and Universities. (1971) (0)
The Adaptive Significance of Cul~ral Behavior: Comments and Reply (1977) (0)

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