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An association can be viewed as a real, integrated entity shaped either by species interactions or by similar habitat requirements, or it can be viewed as merely a common point along a continuum. The former view was championed by American ecologist Frederic Clements , who viewed the association as a whole that was more than the sum of its parts ...
Major contributions included: Eduard Suess’ and Vladimir Vernadsky's work with the biosphere, Arthur Tansley's ecosystem, Charles Elton's Animal Ecology, and Henry Cowles ecological succession. [8] Ecology influenced the social sciences and humanities. Human ecology began in the early 20th century and it recognized humans as an ecological factor.
Winemiller has produced more than 280 scientific papers and 25 book chapters on topics ranging from food web ecology to the evolutionary ecology of fishes. He coauthored the books "The Science of Instream Flows: A Review of the Texas Instream Flow Program" (2005, National Academies Press) and "Peacock Bass: Diversity, Ecology and Conservation" (2021, with L.C. Kelso Winemiller and C.G ...
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]
Stephen Alfred Forbes (May 29, 1844 – March 13, 1930) [2] was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, [3] a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology.
Tilman is best known for his work on the role of resource competition in community structure and on the role of biodiversity in ecosystem functioning. [2] One of his most cited articles is the 1994 Nature article on the Biodiversity and stability in grasslands which provided data regarding an experiment that began in 1982 with more than 200 plots in a grassland field in the Cedar Creek ...
Plant Physiology and Ecology (1907) Plant Succession. An Analysis of the Development of Vegetation (1916) Plant Indicators. The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice (1920) The Phylogenetic Method in Taxonomy: The North American Species of Artemisia, Chrysothamnus, and Atriplex (1923, with Harvey Monroe Hall) Plant Succession ...
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 ...