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Animal ecologist, biogeographer, author of first American book on animal ecology in 1913, founded ecological energetics [82] [83] Friedrich Ratzel: 1844–1904: German geographer who first coined the term biogeography in 1891. Frederic Clements: 1874–1945: Authored the first influential American ecology book in 1905 [84] Victor Ernest ...
While at the University of Nebraska, he met Edith Gertrude Schwartz (1874–1971), also a botanist and ecologist, and they were married in 1899. [ 1 ] [ 5 ] In 1905 he was appointed full professor at the University of Nebraska, but left in 1907 to head the botany department at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis .
Warder Clyde Allee (United States) [1] Herbert G. Andrewartha ; Benjamin C. Augustine (United States) Sarah Martha Baker ; Fakhri A. Bazzaz (United States) John Beard (UK) William Dwight Billings (United States) Louis Charles Birch (Australia) Murray Bookchin (United States) George Bornemissza (Australia) Emma Lucy Braun (United States)
MacArthur was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, 1958–65, and professor of biology at Princeton University, 1965–72.He played an important role in the development of niche partitioning, and with E.O. Wilson he co-authored The Theory of Island Biogeography (1967), a work which changed the field of biogeography, drove community ecology and led to the development of modern ...
Historical ecology is a research program that focuses on the interactions between humans and their environment over long-term periods of time, typically over the course of centuries. [1] In order to carry out this work, historical ecologists synthesize long-series data collected by practitioners in diverse fields. [ 2 ]
1820 — World human population reached 1 billion. [12] 1828 — Carl Sprengel formulates the Law of the Minimum stating that economic growth is limited not by the total of resources available, but by the scarcest resource. 1828/1830- Thomas Carlyle introduces the use of the term "environment" in its modern sense. [13]
Egler was a prolific writer and a prescient scientist. His 1942 paper, "Vegetation as an Object of Study," was among the first to attempt to apply the logic of philosophy to ecology. The same year, and more than a decade before Charles Elton's influential 1958 book on the subject, he published on invasion ecology.
First there was the threat to environmental survival; then there was the apparent shortage of energy; and now there is the unexpected decline of the economy." [22] He argued that the three issues were interconnected: the industries that used the most energy had the highest negative impact on the environment. The focus on non-renewable resources ...