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Encyclopedia > Ecologists


This is a list of ecologists who have articles, in alphabetical order by surname. (Ecology is sometimes used incorrectly as a synonym for the natural environment. ...

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Warder Clyde Allee (June 5, 1885 - March 18, 1955) was an American zoologist and ecologist who taught animal ecology at the University of Chicago. ... John Stanley Beard is a British-born forester and ecologist who now resided in Australia. ... William Dwight Billings (b. ... James Hemphill Brown, an ecologist, is Distinguished Professor of Biology at the University of New Mexico. ... Professor Arthur James Cain ,FRS (25 July 1921 — 20 August 1999) was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist. ... Frederic Edward Clements (1874–1945) was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation succession. ... Pierre Dansereau (born October 5, 1911) is a Canadian ecologist and is known as one of the fathers of ecology. Born in Outremont on the island of Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (B.Sc. ... Sir Frank Fraser Darling (born Frank Darling, June 23, 1903 - 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer and author. ...

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Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 1942 in New York) is an American biologist. ... Garrett Hardin Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was a controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the commons. ... Jeff Harvey is a Senior Scientist in the Department of Multitrophic Interactions at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology, and formerly an editor of Nature. ... J. Michael Fay is an ecologist and conservationist notable for, among other things, the Megatransect, in which he spent 455 days walking 2000 km across Africa. ...

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David Lambert Lack (July 16, 1910 - March 12, 1973) was a British ornithologist and biologist. ... Hugh Lamprey (2 August 1928 - 10 February 1996) was a British ecologist and bush pilot. ... Thomas E. Lovejoy is chief biodiversity adviser to the president of the World Bank, senior adviser to the president of the United Nations Foundation, and president of the Heinz Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment. ... James Ephraim Lovelock (born July 26, 1919), FRS, is an independent scientist, author, researcher and environmentalist who lives in Cornwall, in the west of England. ...

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Image:RamonMargalef. ... Robert H. MacArthur (April 7, 1930-November 1, 1972) was an American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. ... Robert McCredie Bob May, Baron May of Oxford OM AC Kt (born 8 January 1936 in Australia) is a cross-bench member of the British House of Lords and President of the Royal Society. ... Karl August Möbius (7 February 1825–26 April 1908) was a German ecologist. ... Howard Nelson, Ph. ... Eugene P. Odum (1913-2002) is considered to have been one of the most influential figures in the science of ecology in the twentieth century. ... Howard Thomas Odum (1924-2002), commonly known as H.T. Odum or Tom Odum, was an eminent American ecosystem ecologist and a professor at the University of Florida. ... Dr. Ruth Myrtle Patrick (born 1907 in Topeka, Kansas) is a botanist and limnologist specialsing in diatoms and freshwater ecology, she developed ways to measure the health of freshwater ecosystems and established a number of research facilites. ...

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Derek Almey Ratcliffe (9 July 1929 – 23 May 2005) was one of the most significant British nature conservationists of the 20th century. ... Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (May 14, 1897 - May 11, 1948) commonly known as Ed Ricketts, was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. ... Michael Rosenzweig is an ecologist at the University of Arizona who has developed and popularized the concept of Reconciliation Ecology. ... Richard West Halsey (1955- ), is one of the leading fire ecologists in California, considered by some to be second only to John E. Keeley. ... Daniel Simberloff Daniel Simberloff is perhaps best known as a student of the biologist E.O. Wilson and one of the co-authors of the theory of Island biogeography with writings such as the 1969 paper: Experimental Zoogeography of Islands: The Colonization of Empty Islands. ... Sir Arthur George Tansley (1871 - 1955) was an English botanist who was a pioneer in the science of plant ecology. ...

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Ecologist (528 words)
Ecologists examine the relationship between the environment and actions that affect it, including rainfall, pollution, temperature shifts, and industrialization.
Ecologists work with scientific and mathematical models to analyze and interpret correlations between actions and effects on the environment, which translates into significant time looking at data.
Ecologists, because of their exposure to the growing mountain of numbers which indicate that we are ravaging our own planet, often become environmentalists, using their scientific and statistics-based background as a resource for their educational and lobbying efforts.
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