Community Theory, Restoration and Vegetation Management

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (pdfs in main listing)

• Parker, V. T., R. L. Simpson & M. A. Leck. 2008. The seedling as a dynamic life history stage (synthesis chapter), pp. 371-386. In: M. A. Leck, V. T. Parker and R. L. Simpson (eds). Seedling Ecology and Evolution. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
• Parker, V. T. 2004. Community of the individual: implications for the community concept. Oikos 104: 27-34.
• Parker, V. T. 2002. The concept of the ecological community and a clash of perspectives: A reply to Looijen and van Andel. Persp. Plant Ecol. Evol. Syst 5:139-143.
• Parker, V. T. 2001. Conceptual problems and scale limitations of defining ecological communities: A critique of the CI concept (Community of Individuals). Perspectives in Plant Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 4, 80-96.
• Parker, V. T. and S. T. A. Pickett. 1998. Historical contingency and multiple scales of dynamics in plant communities, pp. 171-191. In: D. L. Peterson and V. T. Parker (eds.) Ecological Scale: Theory and applications. Columbia Univ. Press, NY.
• Peterson, D. L. and V. T. Parker. 1998. Dimensions of scale in ecology, resource management and society, pp. 499-522. In: D. L. Peterson and V. T. Parker (eds.) Ecological Scale: Theory and applications. Columbia Univ. Press, NY.
• Peterson, D. L. and V. T. Parker (eds.) 1998. Ecological Scale: Theory and Applications.D. Peterson and V. T. Parker (eds.) Complexity in Ecological Systems series. Columbia University Press, NY.
• Parker, V. T. 1997. The scale of successional models and restoration objectives. Restoration Ecology 5: 301-306.
• Parker, V. T. and S. T. A. Pickett. 1997. Restoration as an ecosystem process: implications of the current ecological paradigm. In: Urbanska, K. M., N. R. Webb and P. J. Edwards (eds.) Restoration Ecology and Sustainable Development, pp 17-32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Brand, T. and V. T. Parker. 1995. Scale and general laws of vegetation dynamics. Oikos 73: 375-380.
• Pickett, S. T. A. and V. T. Parker. 1994. Avoiding the old pitfalls: Opportunities in a new discipline. Restoration Ecology 2: 75-79.
• Parker, V. T. 1993. Conservation issues in land management. In J. E. Keeley (coord. ed.) The Interface Between Ecology and Land Development, pp. 53-60. Southern California Academy of Sciences, Los Angeles.
• Pickett, S. T. A., V. T. Parker, and P. F. Fiedler. 1992. The new paradigm in ecology: implications for conservation biology above the species level. In: P. L. Fiedler and J. A. Jain (eds.) Conservation Biology: the theory and practice of nature conservation, preservation and management, pp. 65-88. Chapman and Hall, NY