Spatializing the history of ecology : sites, journeys, mappings / edited by Raf de Bont and Jens Lachmund.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : knowing nature, making space / Raf de Bont and Jens Lachmund -- Mapping Heimat : amateur natural history and plant ecology in imperial Germany / Nils G�uttler -- Life zones : the rise and decline of a theory of the geographic distribution of species / Roderick P. Neumann -- A laboratory for tropical ecology : colonial models and American science at Cinchona, Jamaica / Megan Raby -- Field stations and the problem of scale : local, regional, and global at the Desert Lab / Jeremy Vetter -- Ecology and rehabilitation : the west highland survey / Mark Toogood -- Ecosystem simulation as a practice of emplacement : the Desert Biome Project, 1970-1974 / Etienne S. Benson -- The city as an ecosystem : Paul Duvigneaud and the ecological study of Brussels / Jens Lachmund -- Extinct in the wild : finding a place for the European bison, 1919-1952 / Raf De Bont -- Islands and bioregions : global reserve design models and the making of national parks, 1960-2000 / Simone Schleper and Hans Schouwenburg -- Space, place, land, and sea : the "ecological discovery" of the global Wadden Sea / Anna-Katharina W�obse -- Epilogue / Raf de Bont and Jens Lachmund.