Collaboration in the new life sciences / edited by John N. Parker, Niki Vermeulen, and Bart Penders.

Farnham ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010], ©2010.

xix, 263 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Collecting collaborations : understanding life together / Niki Vermeulen and Bart Penders -- Organising the field : collaboration in the history of ecology and environmental science / Stephen Bocking -- Multidisciplinary collaborations in toxicology and paleo-ecology : equal means to different ends / Laurens K. Hessels, Stefan de Jong, Harro van Lente -- Two approaches to big science : an analysis of lter and neon / Ann Zimmerman and Bonnie Nardi -- Integrating the social into the ecological : organisational and research group challenges / John N. Parker -- Infrastructuring ecology : challenges in achieving data sharing / Karen S. Baker and Florence Millerand -- Customisation of transdisciplinary collaboration in the integrated management of contaminated sites / Vivien Behrens and Mattias Gross -- A data bias in interdisciplinary cooperation in the sciences : ecology in climate change research / Chunglin Kwa and René Rector -- Matchmaking mechanisms : collaborative arrangements in proteomics and bioinformatics / Jamie Lewis -- Systems biology, interdisciplinarity and disciplinary identity / Jane Calvert -- The rice sequence collaborations : globalisation, innovation networks and the burgeoning life sciences in asia / Lyndal Halliday -- Collaborationism / Wesley Shrum.

Includes bibliographical references and index.