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Ralph Morris Buchsbaum (January 2, 1907 – February 11, 2002) was an American zoologist, invertebrate biologist, and ecologist.His book Animals Without Backbones, first published in 1938, was the first textbook in biology to be reviewed by Time and featured in Life.
First to coin the term ecosystem in 1936 and notable researcher [72] [80] [81] Charles Christopher Adams: 1873–1955: 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 ...
This is a list of notable ecologists. A-D. Rachel Carson. John Aber (United States) Aziz Ab'Saber ; ... Aparajita Datta (India) Margaret Bryan Davis (United States)
Victor Ernest Shelford (September 22, 1877 – December 27, 1968) was an American zoologist and animal ecologist who helped to establish ecology as a distinct field of study. [1] He was the first president of the Ecological Society of America in 1915, and helped found the Nature Conservancy in the 1940s.
Portal:Ecology/Selected biographies/12 Pierre Dansereau, CC GOQ FRSC (born 1911) is a Canadian ecologist known as one of the "fathers of ecology". Born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of Montreal), he received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc.A.) in 1936 and a PH.d. in Science in 1939 from the University of Geneva.
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).
William Vogt (15 May 1902 – 11 July 1968) was an American ecologist and ornithologist, with a strong interest in both the carrying capacity and population control.He was the author of the best-seller Road to Survival (1948), National Director of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and secretary of the Conservation Foundation.
One of his early students, Phyllis Draper, published the first American contribution to this developing field. Sears was the first to publish reference drawings of Lake Erie basin fossil pollen types, and published extensively in this field and inspired many students between 1930 and about 1950, by which time his interest in conservation and ...