Rexford F. Daubenmire and the Ecology of Place: Applied Ecology in the Mid-Twentieth-Century American West

Robert Harding Whittaker and the Individualistic Hypothesis

“…However, to an adherent of the community-unit theory, a sampling technique which was not based upon the identification of associations was necessarily unsatisfactory: I was told by Daubenmire, for example, that it was not scientifically valid to sample the way I had done because one would get a lot of stands that were intermediate or disturbed and were inappropriate to the recognition of the types one was trying to seek and demonstrate. (interview) Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Rexford Daubenmire was one of the staunchest defenders of the community-unit theory (Daubenmire 1952, 1966, Sowards 2015. Whittaker was young, outspoken, and iconoclastic.…”

“…Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Rexford Daubenmire was one of the staunchest defenders of the community‐unit theory (Daubenmire , , Sowards ). Whittaker was young, outspoken, and iconoclastic.…”