John Vandermeer - The dialectics of ecology: biological, historical and political intersections

Abstract

For many years, I have found John Vandermeer’s leadership rewarding to study and follow for his commitment to ecology, evolution, social justice, and teaching. This collection of essays and tributes demonstrates these commitments and his breadth of influence over five decades. When we were graduate students, John’s analysis of geographic variation in a freshwater fish was so superior to anything that had been done before that many of us were compelled to follow his quantitative perspective. His imagination and productivity as a zoology graduate student at Kansas and Michigan marked him as someone to watch, and followers were immediately attracted to his science and his revolutionary spirit.