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Title: THE BACKGROUND OF ECOLOGY
CONCEPT AND THEORY
By: Robert P. McIntosh, H. John B. Birks, J. A. Wiens
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521270871
ISBN 13: 9780521270878
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 19 September, 1986
Series: Cambridge Studies in Ecology
Pages: 400
Description: This is a critical review of the origins and development of ecology, with emphasis on the major concepts and theories shared in the ecological traditions of plant and animal ecology, limnology, and oceanography.
Synopsis: The Background of Ecology is a critical and up-to-date review of the origins and development of ecology, with emphasis on the major concepts and theories shared in the ecological traditions of plant and animal ecology, limnology, and oceanography. The work traces developments in each of these somewhat isolated areas and identifies, where possible, parallels or convergences among them. Dr McIntosh describes how ecology emerged as a science in the context of nineteenth-century natural histor
Illustrations: references, indexes
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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