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Therein was the issue. Neither ecology nor ecologists were ready for the task. Not enough ecologists were available to work on impact assessment, outside of the DOE laboratories, leading to the rise of "instant ecologists," [121] having dubious credentials and capabilities. Calls began to arise for the professionalization of ecology.
[8] [9] [10] Clements's climax theory of vegetation dominated plant ecology during the first decades of the twentieth century, though it was criticized significantly by ecologists William Skinner Cooper , Henry Gleason and Arthur Tansley early on, and by Robert Whittaker mid-century, and largely fell out of favor.
Eugene Pleasants Odum (September 17, 1913 – August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology.He and his brother Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, Fundamentals of Ecology (1953).
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 ]
Linnaeus presented early ideas found in modern aspects to human ecology, including the balance of nature while highlighting the importance of ecological functions (ecosystem services or natural capital in modern terms): "In exchange for performing its function satisfactorily, nature provided a species with the necessaries of life" [10]: 66 The ...
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)
George Evelyn Hutchinson ForMemRS (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." [2] He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecology, entomology, genetics, biogeochemistry, a mathematical theory of population growth, art history, philosophy, religion, and anthropology. [3]
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.