Description: An Entangled Bank The Origins of Ecosystems Ecology by Joel B. Hagen Rutgers University Press, 1992, 0813518245, Trade Paperback, VG condition, no marks, no underlining, no highlighting, no creases, 245 pages. Ecology and ecosystem have become part of everyone's vocabulary, and the survival of Earth's ecosystem has become everyone's business. These concepts also gave their name to a distinctively twentieth-century branch of biology: ecosystem ecology. This elegantly written book is the first history of the field accessible to the student, scientist, historian of science, and general reader. Joel B. Hagen traces the intellectual lineage of the concept of ecosystem (a term coined by Arthur Tansley in the 1930s) from its beginning, in Darwin's compelling image of "an entangled bank" of plants and animals living beside a river in a complex web of interdependence, to the present. Hagen pays special attention to the British and American ecologistsTansley, Frederic Clements, Charles Elton, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Eugene and Howard Odum—whose research, debates, and students shaped the discipline over the course of a century. He illuminates the distinctive place ecosystem ecology came to have in the American scientific establishment (its first real support came from an unexpected source, the Atomic Energy Commission) and why the discipline faces new competition for grants, jobs, and intellectual authority from the population-oriented evolutionary ecologists. Joel B. Hagen is an associate professor of biology at Radford University. Cover design by John Romer CONTENTS Preface • ix 1 • An Entangled Bank • 1 2 • A Rational Field Physiology • 15 3 • An Ambiguous Legacy • 33 4 • The Metabolic Imperative • 50 5 • The Birth of a Specialty • 78 6 • Ecology and the Atomic Age • 100 7 • The New Ecology • 122 8 • Evolutionary Heresies • 146 9 • Big Ecology • 164 Epilogue • The Flights of Apollo • 189 Notes • 199 Index • 237 nthdegree books
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Number of Pages: 262 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Entangled Bank : the Origins of Ecosystem Ecology
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Subject: Life Sciences / Ecology, General
Publication Year: 1992
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Subject Area: Science
Author: Joel Hagen
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