Lawrence B. Slobodkin

American scientist

Why Is Lawrence B. Slobodkin Influential?

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.

Lawrence B. Slobodkin's Published Works

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Published Papers

Community Structure, Population Control, and Competition (1960) (3141)
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos (1992) (1184)
A Critique for Ecology (1991) (931)
Growth and regulation of animal populations (1961) (593)
Philosophy of Biology (1993) (375)
An Optimal Strategy of Evolution (1974) (339)
The Third Culture: Beyond the Scientific Revolution (1996) (243)
Regulation in Terrestrial Ecosystems, and the Implied Balance of Nature (1967) (241)
Quasiextinction Probabilities as a Measure of Impact on Population Growth (1982) (235)
Population Dynamics in Daphnia obtusa Kurz (1954) (212)
Growth and Regulation of Animal Populations (1963) (210)
The evolution of phage lysis timing (2005) (168)
Energy in Animal Ecology (1962) (156)
The Science and Values of Restoration Ecology (2004) (153)
Calories/gm. in Species of Animals (1961) (142)
Ecological Energy Relationships at the Population Level (1960) (136)
Experimental Populations of Hydrida (1964) (122)
The Ecological Web The Ecological Web: More on the Distribution and Abundance of Animals H. G. Andrewartha L. C. Birch (1986) (118)
The good, the bad and the reified (2001) (117)
On the contribution of environmental predictability to species diversity. (1969) (116)
How To Be a Predator (1968) (112)
PROMETHEAN FIRE: REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGIN OF MIND. (1984) (112)
Prudent Predation Does Not Require Group Selection (1974) (108)
A history of the ecosystem concept in ecology: More than the sum of the parts (1994) (97)
THE STRATEGY OF EVOLUTION. (1964) (91)
Intellectual Problems of Applied EcologyApplied problems can guide ecology just as clinical problems focus medical research (1988) (87)
The ‘paradox’ of polyembryony: A review of the cases and a hypothesis for its evolution (2004) (77)
Anatomy of a Controversy: The Question of a Language among Bees (1990) (77)
Theoretical Biology: Epigenetic and Evolutionary Order from Complex Systems (1990) (68)
The Effect of Removal of Fixed Percentages of the Newborn on Size and Variability in Populations of Daphnia pulicaria (Forbes) (1956) (67)
Energetics in Daphnia Pulex Populations (1959) (63)
The effect of grazing by the detritivore Orchestia grillus on Spartina litter and its associated microbial community (2004) (63)
The Effect of the Cleaner-Fish Labroides dimidiatus on the Point Diversity of Fishes on the Reef Front at Eilat (1974) (58)
Trace gas emissions and species-dependent ecosystem services. (2002) (58)
What is cyclomorphosis (1987) (47)
The adaptive significance of cultural behavior: Comments and reply (1977) (43)
Rangings of the Mind. (Book Reviews: Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method.; Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect.) (1992) (42)
Floating in Hydra Littoralis (1966) (41)
The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection (2016) (38)
Restoration ecology : the challenge of social values and expectations (2017) (38)
AN ALGEBRA OF POPULATION GROWTH (1953) (31)
Preliminary Ideas for a Predictive Theory of Ecology (1961) (28)
The Role of Minimalism in Art and Science (1986) (28)
The theory of population dynamics—II. Physiological delays (1988) (26)
A Summary of the Special Feature and Comments on Its Theoretical Context and Importance (1992) (21)
An "audience effect" for ecological terminology: use and misuse of jargon (1997) (20)
A Citizen's Guide to Ecology (2003) (19)
Aspects of the Future of Ecology (1968) (19)
The 'paradox' of polyembryony. (1995) (18)
Responses of Hydra Oligactis to Temperature and Feeding Rate (1976) (17)
George Evelyn Hutchinson: 20th-century ecologist (1999) (15)
THE EFFECT OF FAST, AND REGENERATION IN LIGHT VS DARK, ON REGULATION IN THE HYDRA-ALGAL SYMBIOSIS' (1983) (13)
Evolution is no help. (1977) (12)
Stochastic Population Models in Ecology (1961) (11)
ON THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF ECOSYSTEM ANALYSIS (1980) (11)
Scientific Goals Require Literal Empirical Assumptions. (1993) (11)
Discovering Complexity: Decomposition and Localization as Strategies in Scientific Research.William Bechtel , Robert C. Richardson (1994) (11)
IS HISTORY A CONSEQUENCE OF EVOLUTION (1978) (11)
The Null Case of the Paradox of the Plankton (1989) (11)
9. On the Susceptibility of Different Species to Extinction: Elementary Instructions for Owners of a World (1988) (10)
Conditions for Population Equilibrium (1955) (10)
The Acceleration of Evolution (1952) (9)
The Availability of a Miniature Bomb Calorimeter for Ecology (1960) (8)
An Appreciation: George Evelyn Hutchinson (1993) (8)
On Social Single Species Populations (1953) (8)
The theory of population dynamics—II. Physiological delays (1988) (8)
Chapter 5 – Cnidaria (2010) (7)
The connection between single species and ecosystems (1994) (6)
A review of some physiological and evolutionary aspects of body size and bud size of Hydra (2004) (6)
Mind, bind, and ecology: A review of Gregory Bateson's collected essays (1974) (6)
Meta‐Models in Theoretical Ecology (1958) (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)
Toward a Global Perspective (1984) (5)
Complexity and function of mind in nature (1997) (5)
Physiological profiles and demographic rates in relation to food quantity and predictability: An optimization approach (2005) (4)
Evolution of Science (1989) (4)
Environmental fluctuations: How do they affect the topography of the adaptive landscape? (2008) (4)
Skepticism in the apiary (1991) (4)
What have I learned about deserts (1989) (4)
Islands of peril and pleasure (1996) (4)
Introduction to the Study of Animal Populations@@@Growth and Regulation of Animal Populations (1963) (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)
The Light and the Way in Evolution (1966) (3)
My complete works and more (2009) (3)
The Growth of Populations (1976) (3)
A review of some physiological and evolutionary aspects of body size and bud size of Hydra (1991) (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)
Natural Philosophy Rampant. Ecological Communities: Conceptual Issues and the Evidence. Edited by D. R. Strong Jr., D. Simberloff, L. G. Abele, and A. B. Thistle. Princeton University Press; Princeton. 1984. x + 613 pp. (1986) (2)
A Reply to Jordan (1969) (2)
Relation between species lists and tolerance to nematicides. (1980) (2)
The Null Case of the Paradox of the Plankton: After Dinner Address at MSRC Conference on Blooms October 27, 1988 (2013) (2)
European Ecosystems. Biogeographica, Volume 15.Giorgio Marcuzzi (1981) (1)
Predictions, Tautologies, Prejudices, Convictions (1993) (1)
Book Review:The Environment: As I See It, Science Is Not Enough Bruce Wallace (2000) (1)
Tropical Biology in London (1970) (1)
What's New in the Evolution Game? (1988) (1)
Just before Watson and Crick (2003) (1)
The progress of ecology: seventy-five years in ecology. (1988) (1)
A Tragedy of Science and Politics (1976) (1)
A Tragedy of Science and Politics (1969) (1)
What Comes After Postmodern Classification (1995) (1)
Book Review:Living in a Patchy Environment. Bryan Shorrocks, Ian R. Swingland (1991) (1)
What Is "Molecular Ecology?" (1951) (1)
Limits to Biodiversity (Species Packing) (2001) (1)
Ecology and disparities of size (1992) (1)
Kudos for Human Ecology Analysis (1982) (1)
Complexity as Subject (1991) (1)
Gaia: Hoke and Substance (1993) (1)
Glosses on lindeman — the ramifications of an innocent physicalism (2005) (1)
Book Review:Heredity, Environment, and Personality. A Study of 850 Sets of Twins John C. Loehlin, Robert C. Nichols (1978) (1)
Yet Another Intellectual Revolution (1993) (1)
General and Theoretical: Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity. Gregory Bateson. (1982) (1)
Book Review:Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity. T. F. H. Allen, Thomas B. Starr (1983) (1)
Discordant harmonies: by Daniel B. Botkin, Oxford University Press, 1990. £8.95 pbk (xii + 241 pages) ISBN 0 19 507469 6 (1993) (1)
The meaning of “evolutionary law” (1981) (1)
Evolution and Life Histories (1984) (1)
A nutrient-based view of plant¿herbivore interactions (2006) (1)
Epiphanies, stars, and bookkeepers (1992) (1)
How to Begin Beginning Biology. (1996) (1)
Philosophical Imperatives Philosophy of Biology Elliott Sober (1994) (1)
A LABORATORY STUDY OF THE EFFECT OF REMOVAL OF NEW BORN ANIMALS FROM A POPULATION. (1957) (1)
Coral Reefs.Yossi Loya , Ramy Klein (1997) (1)
A Distorting Mirror for Our Time (1990) (1)
Entropy, Information and All That (1969) (1)
How to be Important (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)
Linking Species and Ecosystems Through Training of Students (1995) (1)
Stony Brook Mill Pond Project : results and discussion (1985) (0)
The American Society of Naturalists (1973) (0)
The Adaptive Significance of Cul~ral Behavior: Comments and Reply (1977) (0)
Old wine, new flasks: Reflections on science and jewish tradition (1998) (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)
Floating in Hydra littoralis (1966) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (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)
Ecological Resources in New York State's Colleges and Universities. (1971) (0)
Completeness and Craft Standards in Ecological Theory (1980) (0)
The Peculiar Evolutionary Strategy of Man in Epistemology, Methodology, and the Social Sciences. (1983) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Spring Systematics Symposium Field Museum of Natural History (2016) (0)
Science and limnology (1995) (0)
The American Society of Naturalists (1971) (0)
Evolutionary Ecology (2004) (0)
Pathfinding in Ecology. (Book Reviews: Perspectives in Ecological Theory) (1969) (0)
Book reviews (1977) (0)

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