Speaker: Dr. Steward Pickett
This talk will give a sense of how a diverse ecological career actually hangs together conceptually. At the same time, Pickett’s research has taken him across a wide variety of habitats globally, and this has stimulated a discovery of conceptual commonalities and contexts that frame and organize the differences across this diversity of sites and interests. The core theme is heterogeneity, in both across space and time, as an ecological driver and outcome.
Brief examples of work on :
- succession and community dynamics
- disturbance ecology
- testing the relevance of the ecosystem approach in urban ecology
- synthesis in social-ecological science, 5) application of patch dynamics to urban regions
- bridging urban ecology and urban design
- environmental justice and ecology of segregation
- Earth stewardship and urban sustainability.
The relationship of these various areas is summarized, and some work remaining highlighted. The talk will acknowledge collaborators and ancestors, both personal and academic.
References
Scheiner, S. M., and M. R. Willig. 2011. A general theory of ecology. Pages 3–18in S. M. Scheiner and M. R. Willig, editors. The theory of ecology. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
Pickett, S. T., and Jerry M. Baskin. 1973. “The Role of Temperature and Light in the Germination Behavior of Ambrosia Artemisiifolia.” Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 100(3):165–70. doi: 10.2307/2484628.
Pickett, S. T. A. 1982. “Population Patterns through Twenty Years of Oldfield Succession.” Vegetatio 49(1):45–59. doi: 10.1007/BF00051566.
Facelli, J. M., and S. T. A. Pickett. 1991. “Indirect Effects of Litter on Woody Seedlings Subject to Herb Competition.” Oikos 62(2):129–38. doi: 10.2307/3545257.
Armesto, Juan J., and S. T. A. Pickett. 1986. “Removal Experiments to Test Mechanisms of Plant Succession in Oldfields.” Vegetatio 66(2):85–93. doi: 10.1007/BF00045498.
Meiners SJ, Pickett STA, Cadenasso ML. An Integrative Approach to Successional Dynamics: Tempo and Mode of Vegetation Change. Cambridge University Press; 2015.
Peters, D. P. C., A. E. Lugo, F. S. Chapin III, S. T. A. Pickett, M. Duniway, A. V. Rocha, F. J. Swanson, C. Laney, and J. Jones. 2011. “Cross-System Comparisons Elucidate Disturbance Complexities and Generalities.” Ecosphere 2:art 81. doi: 10.1890/ES11-00115.1.
Cadenasso, M. L., and S. T. A. Pickett. 2000. “Linking Forest Edge Structure to Edge Function: Mediation of Herbivore Damage.” Journal of Ecology 88(1):31–44. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2745.2000.00423.x.
Cadenasso, M. L., and S. T. A. Pickett. 2001. “Effect of Edge Structure on the Flux of Species into Forest Interiors.” Conservation Biology 15(1):91–97.
Cadenasso, M. L., M. M. Traynor, and S. TA Pickett. 1997. “Functional Location of Forest Edges: Gradients of Multiple Physical Factors.” Canadian Journal of Forest Research 27(5):774–82. doi: 10.1139/x97-013.
Cadenasso, M. L., S. T. A. Pickett, and K. C. Weathers. 2002. Effects of boundaries and edges on flux of nutrients, detritus, and organisms In G. A. Polis, M. E. Power, and G. R. Huxel, editors. Food webs at the landscape level: the ecology of trophic flow across habitats. University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Pickett, S.T.A., McDonnell, M.J. (1993). Humans as Components of Ecosystems. Springer, New York, NY.
Victoria Marshall, Mary L. Cadenasso, Brian McGrath, and Steward T.A. Pickett. Patch Atlas: A Graphic Journey through an Urban Watershed. 2020. Yale University Press
McHale, Melissa R., Steward T. A. Pickett, Olga Barbosa, David N. Bunn, Mary L. Cadenasso, Daniel L. Childers, Meredith Gartin, George R. Hess, David M. Iwaniec, Timon McPhearson, M. Nils Peterson, Alexandria K. Poole, Louie Rivers, Shade T. Shutters, and Weiqi Zhou. 2015. “The New Global Urban Realm: Complex, Connected, Diffuse, and Diverse Social-Ecological Systems.” Sustainability 7(5):5211–40.
Pickett, S. T. A., M. L. Cadenasso, E. J. Rosi-Marshall, K. T. Belt, P. M. Groffman, J. M. Grove, E. G. Irwin, S. S. Kaushal, S. L. LaDeau, C. H. Nilon, C. M. Swan, and P. S. Warren. 2016. Dynamic heterogeneity: a framework to promote ecological integration and hypothesis generation in urban systems. Urban Ecosystems DOI: 10.1007/s11252-016-0574-9
Boone, C. G., C. L. Redman, H. Blanco, D. Haase, J. Koch, S. Lwasa, H. Nagendra, S. Pauleit, S. T. A. Pickett, K. C. Seto, and M. Yokohari. 2014. Reconceptualizing land for sustainable urbanity. Pages 313–330in K. C. Seto and A. Reenberg, editors. Rethinking urban land use in a global era. MIT Press, Cambridge.
Steward T. A. Pickett, Mary Cadenasso, Morgan Grove, E. Irwin, Emma J. Rosi, and C.M. Swan. Science for a Sustainable City. 2019. Yale University Press.
Frantzeskaki, Niki, Steward T. A. Pickett, and Erik Andersson. 2024. “Shifts in Urban Ecology: From Science to Social Project”. Ambio 53 (6). Springer Science and Business Media LLC: 809-12. doi:10.1007/s13280-024-02000-z.
