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In an ideal world, research ecologists would provide ideas, guidance, and rigorous data that benefit practitioners, and practitioners would put this science into practice, exchange insights with the scientists, and make their project sites and management plans available for them to develop and test their theories. Developing and strengthening this kind of positive, mutually beneficial relationship between the scientific and resource management communities has been a central goal of organizations such as the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER) ever since its inaugural meeting in 1988.
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Chapter 8. Bridging the Science-Practice Gap Article from which parts of this chapter were adapted
Cabin, Robert J., Andre Clewell, Mrill Ingram, Tein McDonald, and Vicky Temperton. “Bridging Restoration Science and Practice: Results and Analysis of a Survey from the 2009 Society for Ecological Restoration International Meeting.” Restora tion Ecology18, no. 6 (November 2010): 783–88.
Quote about restoration scientists and practitioners working together
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SER’s Global Restoration Network
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SER’s mission statement
Society for Ecological Restoration. “About SER.” Accessed October 31, 2010. http://www.ser.org/about.asp
Source of the physics envy term
Egler, Frank E. “‘Physics Envy’ in Ecology.” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of Amer ica67, no. 3 (September 1986): 233–35.
More about alternative research models
Cabin, Robert J. “Science-Driven Restoration: A Square Grid on a Round Earth?” Restoration Ecology15, no. 1 (March 2007): 1–7.
Quote about the difficulty of resolving political disputes with science
Sarewitz, Daniel. “Liberating Science from Politics.” American Scientist94, no. 3 (May–June 2006): 104–6.
Mikael Stenmark quotes
Stenmark, Mikael. Scientism: Science, Ethics, and Religion. London: Ashgate Publish ing, 2001.
More about the “Restoration Ecology Extension Service” idea
Cabin, Robert J., Andre Clewell, Mrill Ingram, Tein McDonald, and Vicky Temperton. “Bridging Restoration Science and Practice: Results and Analysis of a Survey from the 2009 Society for Ecological Restoration International Meeting.” Restora tion Ecology18, no. 6 (November 2010): 783–88.
Ken Wood’s discovery of Kanaloa
Lorence, David H., and Kenneth R. Wood. “Kanaloa, a New Genus of Fabaceae (Mimosoideae) from Hawaii.” Novon4, no. 2 (Summer 1994): 137–45.
Selected publications from my seed bank dissertation research
Cabin, Robert J. “Genetic Comparisons of Seed Bank and Seedling Populations of a Perennial Desert Mustard, Lesquerella fendleri.” Evolution50, no. 5 (October 1996): 1830–41.
Cabin, Robert J., and Diane L. Marshall. “The Demographic Role of Soil Seed Banks. I. Spatial and Temporal Comparisons of Below- and Above-Ground Populations of the Desert Mustard Lesquerella fendleri.” Journal of Ecology88, no. 2 (April 2000): 283–92.
Cabin, Robert J., Randall J. Mitchell, and Diane L. Marshall. “Do Surface Plant and Soil Seed Bank Populations Differ Genetically? A Multipopulation Study of the Desert Mustard Lesquerella fendleri(Brassicaceae).” American Journal of Botany85, no. 9 (1998): 1098–1109.
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Cabin, R.J. (2011). Bridging the Science-Practice Gap. In: Intelligent Tinkering. The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-040-8_8
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