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The Institute communicates its scientific and educational information in a number of ways. One major outlet is peer-reviewed publications and reports. Cary Institute staff regularly publish in the best-rated journals in their respective fields.
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Biodiversity in Drylands: Toward a Unified Framework. 2004, p. 368.
Designing Patch Dynamics. 2007.
Ecological Heterogeneity. 1991, p. 332.
, Ecological Understanding: The Nature of Theory and The Theory of Nature, 2nd ed. 2007, p. 233.
, “The application of the ecological gradient paradigm to the study of urban effects”, in M. J. McDonnell and S. T. A. Pickett (eds.). Humans as Components of Ecosystems: The Ecology of Subtle Human Effects and Populated Areas, 1993, p. 175-189.
, “Biodiversity and community composition in urban ecosystems: coupled human, spatial and metacommunity processes”, in J. Niemela (Ed.), Handbook of Urban Ecology, 2011, p. 179-186.
, “Biodiversity on the urban landscape”, in R. P. Cincotta and L. J. Gorenflo. Human Population: Its Influences on Biological Diversity, Ecological Studies 214., 2011, p. 75-101.
, “Biotic and abiotic variability as key determinants of savanna heterogeneity at multiple spatio-temporal scales”, in J. T. du Toit, H. C. Biggs, and K. H. Rogers (eds.). The Kruger Experience: Ecology and Management of Savanna Heterogeneity, 2003, p. 22-40.
, “Boundaries as structural and functional entities in landscapes: Understanding flows in ecology and urban design”, in B. McGrath, V. Marshall, M. L. Cadenasso, J. M. Grove, S. T. A. Pickett, R. Plunz, and J. Towers (eds.). Designing Patch Dynamics, 2007, p. 116-131.
, “Carbon and nitrogen dynamics in oak stands along an urban-rural land use gradient”, in J. M. Kelly and W. W. McFee (eds.). Carbon Forms and Functions in Forest Soils, 1995, p. 569-587.
, “Carbon pools and trace gas fluxes in urban forest soils”, in R. Lal, J. Kimble, E. Levine, and B. A. Stewart (eds.). Advances in Soil Science: Soil Management and Greenhouse Effect, 1995, p. 147-158.
, “Changing academic perspectives of ecology: A view from within”, in E. A. Johnson and M. J. Mappin (eds.). Environmental Education and Advocacy: Changing Perspectives of Ecology and Education, 2005, p. 50-71.
, “Climax community”, in American Academic Encyclopedia, vol. 5, 1989, p. 59.
, “Comparative analysis of ecosystems along gradients of urbanization: opportunities and limitations”, in J. Cole, G. Lovett, and S. Findlay (eds.). Comparative Analyses of Ecosystems: Patterns, Mechanisms, and Theories, 1991, p. 351-355.
, “Defining the scientific issues”, in S. T. A. Pickett, R. S. Ostfeld, M. Shachak, and G. E. Likens (eds.). The Ecological Basis of Conservation: Heterogeneity, Ecosystems, and Biodiversity, 1997, p. 3-10.
, “Domain and Propositions of Succession Theory”, in S. Scheiner and M. Willig (Eds.), Theory of Ecology, 2011, p. 185-216 .
, “Ecological effects of administrative boundaries”, in R. L. Knight and P. B. Landres (eds.). Stewardship Across Boundaries, 1998, p. 39-64.
, “The ecological implications of wolf restoration: contemporary ecological principles and linkages with social processes”, in V. A. Sharpe, B. Norton, and S. Donnelly (eds.). Wolves and Human Communities: Biology, Politics, and Ethics, 2000, p. 261-274.
, “An ecological perspective on population change and land use”, in C. L. Jolly and B. B. Torrey (eds.). Population and Land Use in Developing Countries, 1993, p. 37-51.
, “The ecology behind conservation: biodiversities”, in G. D. Therres (ed.). Conservation of Biological Diversity: A Key to the Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem and Beyond. (Meeting held May 1998), 2001.
, “Ecology of the City: A Perspective from Science”, in B.P. McGrath (Ed.), Urban Design Ecologies, 2011.
, “Ecology: V Disequilibrium Ecology”, in “Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy,” (eds.) B. Callicott and R. Frodeman, Volume 1, 2008, p. 257-259.