NCEAS EcoEssay Series 1997-2002

While ecologists have many outlets for technical papers, there are very few places that we can present interesting thoughts and opinions. This EcoEssay is a forum for the expression of new ecological ideas. NCEAS invited innovative and synthetic ecological thinkers to write an essay for these pages, and then commissioned several reviews of the topic. 

Below are Ecologists answer to this call in the form of four EcoEssays and their responses.

1. An Ecological Perspective on the Challenge of Complexity, by James H. Brown (1997)

   • Why worry about the maturing of a science?, by Peter Kareiva

   • Comment on the "Challenges of Complexity", by Stephen Carpenter

   • Reply by Sara F. Tjossem to James H. Brown's "An Ecological Perspective on the Challenge of Complexity"

2. Data: The Tapestry of Nature, By Aaron M. Ellison (1998)

   • An Individual-based Model of Data Sharing, by The Postdocs at NCEAS 1997

   • To Each, Their Placemat: a comment on Ellison's "Data: the Tapestry of Nature", by Norman Yan

   • Thoughts on Data: The Tapestry of Nature, by Aaron M. Ellison, by James H. Beach

3. Analysis And/Or Advocacy: What Role(s) for Ecologists?, By Frederic H. Wagner (1999)

   • Ecologists, Advocacy and Public Policy, by Harold Mooney and Paul Ehrlich

4. Remedies for the Scientific Disease, By Mark Burgman (2002)