Birth Of Scientific Ecology
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Birth Of Scientific Ecology
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Author : Patrick Matagne
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2024-02-21
Birth Of Scientific Ecology written by Patrick Matagne and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-21 with Science categories.
This book presents a biography of the Danish botanist Eugen Warming. As the author of a treatise on ecology that brought him international recognition, he was able to inspire the first generation of 20th-century European and American ecologists. His innovative approach to nature and his Arctic and tropical missions heralded the birth of a new science and an ecological awareness. As a professor at several Scandinavian universities during a period of intense debate and controversy over evolutionary theories, Eugen Warming vigorously asserted his convictions. Birth of Scientific Ecology presents the image of a man of knowledge and power, recognized by his contemporaries as a founder of ecology and a player in the ecological project of the Kingdom of Denmark at a time when the empires were clashing.
The European Origins Of Scientific Ecology
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Author : Pascal Acot
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-01-07
The European Origins Of Scientific Ecology written by Pascal Acot and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-07 with Science categories.
Over the last few decades, historians of scientific ecology have brought to light the role of the European scientists who have laid the basic cornerstones of modern ecology between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The foundations of geobotany were laid by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), Alphonse Jules Dureau de la Malle (1777-1857), Gaston Bonnier (1853-1922) and Charles Flahault (1852-1935); biocenotics, by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Pierre-François Verhulst (1804-1849), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Karl Moebius (1825-1908), Charles Valentine-Riley (1843-1895), and François-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912); agrochemistry and microbiology by Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887), and Stanislas Winogradski (1856-1953); the taxonomy of communities by August Heinrich Grisebach (1813-1879), Anton Kerner von Marilaün (1831-1898), Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893), and Charles Flahault; and anthropogeography by Karl Ritter (1779-1859), Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), and Friederich Ratzel (1844-1904). Together, they created the conditions that, with Eugenius Warming (1841-1924), gave birth to the autonomous discipline of scientific ecology, thirty years after the German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) had christened this new branch of biology. Up to now, the writings of these scientists have been scattered in various publications that were often not accessible, which made a comparative study almost impossible. There was thus a need to bring together the primary sources in their original form, pagination, and language (whenever possible, a version of the text has been made available in a second language as well). They are gathered here in two volumes, in an analytical framework that aids in understanding their relevant historical context and significance. To deal with the complex multidisciplinary roots of the history of ecology, Pascal Acot has brought together a group of historians with authoritative knowledge of the field's various sub-branches, without ever losing sight of ecology's relationship to the broader history of biology and the environmental sciences.
The Evolution Of American Ecology 1890 2000
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Author : Sharon E. Kingsland
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2005
The Evolution Of American Ecology 1890 2000 written by Sharon E. Kingsland and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Science categories.
In the 1890s, several initiatives in American botany converged. The creation of new institutions, such as the New York Botanical Garden, coincided with radical reforms in taxonomic practice and the emergence of an experimental program of research on evolutionary problems. Sharon Kingsland explores how these changes gave impetus to the new field of ecology that was defined at exactly this time. She argues that the creation of institutions and research laboratories, coupled with new intellectual directions in science, were crucial to the development of ecology as a discipline in the United States. The main concern of ecology - the relationship between organisms and environment - was central to scientific studies aimed at understanding and controlling the evolutionary process. Kingsland considers the evolutionary context in which ecology arose, especially neo-Lamarckian ideas and the new mutation theory, and explores the relationship between scientific research and broader theories about social progress and the evolution of human civilization. By midcentury, American ecologists were leading the rapid development of ecosystem ecology. and society in the postwar context, foreshadowing the environmental critiques of the 1960s. As the ecosystem concept evolved, so too did debates about how human ecology should be incorporated into the biological sciences. Kingsland concludes with an examination of ecology in the modern urban environment, reflecting on how scientists are now being challenged to produce innovative responses to pressing problems. The Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000 offers an innovative study not only of the scientific landscape in turn-of-the-century America, but of current questions in ecological science.
Picturing Ecology
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Author : Damian Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-08-10
Picturing Ecology written by Damian Hughes and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-10 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939.
The European Origins Of Scientific Ecology
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Author : Pascal Acot
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The European Origins Of Scientific Ecology written by Pascal Acot and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
The Life Of David Lack
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Author : Ted R. Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-06-01
The Life Of David Lack written by Ted R. Anderson and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-01 with Science categories.
Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all general biology texts produced during that period have a figure showing the beak size differences among the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack's 1947 classic, Darwin's Finches. Lack's pioneering conclusions in Darwin's Finches mark the beginning of a new scientific discipline, evolutionary ecology. Tim Birkhead, in his acclaimed book, The Wisdom of Birds, calls Lack the 'hero of modern ornithology.' Who was this influential, yet relatively unknown man? The Life of David Lack, Father of Evolutionary Ecology provides an answer to that question based on Ted Anderson's personal interviews with colleagues, family members and former students as well as material in the extensive Lack Archive at Oxford University.
Economies Of Recycling
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Author : Catherine Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Release Date : 2012-08-09
Economies Of Recycling written by Catherine Alexander and has been published by Zed Books Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-09 with Political Science categories.
For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes. Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded. With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, this timely collection debunks common linear understandings of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships.
The Closing Circle
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Author : Barry Commoner
language : en
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Release Date : 2020-03-18
The Closing Circle written by Barry Commoner and has been published by Courier Dover Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-18 with Science categories.
"May be the best book on ecology ever written." -- Michael Crichton, The New York Times. Radical 1971 argument about the root causes of climate change remains a must-read for environmentalists.
Theoretical Ecology
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Author : Robert McCredie May
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Theoretical Ecology written by Robert McCredie May and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Computers categories.
Robert May's seminal book has played a central role in the development of ecological science. Originally published in 1976, this influential text has overseen the transition of ecology from an observational and descriptive subject to one with a solid conceptual core. Indeed, it is a testament to its influence that a great deal of the novel material presented in the earlier editions has now been incorporated into standard undergraduate textbooks. It is now a quarter of a century since the publication of the second edition, and a thorough revision is timely. Theoretical Ecology provides a succinct, up-to-date overview of the field set in the context of applications, thereby bridging the traditional division of theory and practice. It describes the recent advances in our understanding of how interacting populations of plants and animals change over time and space, in response to natural or human-created disturbance. In an integrated way, initial chapters give an account of the basic principles governing the structure, function, and temporal and spatial dynamics of populations and communities of plants and animals. Later chapters outline applications of these ideas to practical issues including fisheries, infectious diseases, tomorrow's food supplies, climate change, and conservation biology. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on questions which as yet remain unanswered. The editors have invited the top scientists in the field to collaborate with the next generation of theoretical ecologists. The result is an accessible, advanced textbook suitable for senior undergraduate and graduate level students as well as researchers in the fields of ecology, mathematical biology, environmental and resources management. It will also be of interest to the general reader seeking a better understanding of a range of global environmental problems.
The Death Of Nature
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Author : Carolyn Merchant
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-09-10
The Death Of Nature written by Carolyn Merchant and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Social Science categories.
UPDATED 40TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH 2020 PREFACE An examination of the Scientific Revolution that shows how the mechanistic world view of modern science has sanctioned the exploitation of nature, unrestrained commercial expansion, and a new socioeconomic order that subordinates women.