After spending many years afield with interdisciplinary teams, I concluded
that geologists/soil scientists spend their time looking at the ground,
botanists/silviculturists spend their time looking at the plants and trees;
zoologists/wildlife biologists spend their time looking through the plants
Wayne's story reminds me that the eminent ecologist Larry Slobodkin once
observed that ecology without species is the ultimate abomination. I was
giving some lectures on size-structured ecosystems, so I introduced myself
as an abominable ecologist. It seemed a fitting title. Still does.
Bill
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Bill's story reminds me of the time Karen Sausman asked, What is a
species? It seems to be all in a flux, what with PhD candidates swarming
all over the herbaria changing names and such, but not re-inventing the
whole basis for nomenclature (at least). Maybe the geneticists will clear it
all
Why would he care about compiling a checklist of a region if he was not
interested in geographical patterns of species distributions?
If it's pure nomenclature that he cares about, surely teaching-quality
samples with no locality info would suffice. For that matter, why bother
looking at real
I could only take this person's word for it. The interpretation I came away
with was that it was something akin to stamp collecting, but I suspect that
part of the story might be that taxonomy is taxing enough in itself without
being overly concerned with ecology and evolution. It was the
