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Gary Barrett (January 3, 1940 – April 10, 2022) [1] was an American ecologist. [2]Barrett held the Eugene P. Odum chair of Odum School of Ecology at University of Georgia; previously he taught at Miami University and Drake University.
The society was founded to unify the science of ecology, stimulate research in all aspects of the discipline, encourage communication among ecologists, and promote the responsible application of ecological data and principles to the solution of environmental problems.
In historical ecology, the landscape is defined as an area of interaction between human culture and the non-human environment. The landscape is a perpetually changing, physical manifestation of history. [17] Historical ecology revises the notion of the ecosystem and replaces it with the landscape. While an ecosystem is static and cyclic, a ...
An awareness of the need for agricultural conservation followed a history of agricultural abundance, as seen in the rapid settlement of western lands in the 1850s to 1880s. The new theme emerged in the Progressive conservation movement, in Hugh Hammond Bennett 's soil conservation crusade, and the land utilization movement of the 1920s.
Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century. [1] Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics.
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).
This timeline lists events in the external environment that have influenced events in human history. This timeline is for use with the article on environmental determinism. For the history of humanity's influence on the environment, and humanity's perspective on this influence, see timeline of history of environmentalism.
Plant communities of Georgia (U.S. state) (16 P) Pages in category "Natural history of Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.