G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology
A man so various -- "The circumstances of my upbringing" -- Becoming a zoologist : the hunter and gatherer -- From Naples to South Africa : a failed career? -- First years at Yale -- Chief biologist : the Yale North India Expedition -- The first crop : W.T. Edmonton, Gordon Riley, Ed Deeve...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New Haven, Conn. u.a.
Yale Univ. Press
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | A man so various -- "The circumstances of my upbringing" -- Becoming a zoologist : the hunter and gatherer -- From Naples to South Africa : a failed career? -- First years at Yale -- Chief biologist : the Yale North India Expedition -- The first crop : W.T. Edmonton, Gordon Riley, Ed Deevey, and Max Dunbar -- The old and the new limnology -- Radioisotopes : radiation ecology and systems ecology -- Biogeochemistry : from Linsley Pond to the Guano Islands -- The three wives and Yemaiel -- Good friends : Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson -- Fond correspondents : Rebecca West and Evelyn Hutchinson -- From the N-dimensional niche to Santa Rosalia -- Hutchinson the environmentalist -- The polymath : art history and many other fields -- The last years - from Yale to England -- Concluding remarks: Hutchinson's legacy in ecology. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-442) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 457 S. Ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780300161380 978-0-300-16138-0 0300161387 0-300-16138-7 |