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ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere level. Ecology overlaps wi ...

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* John Aber (USA) * Aziz Ab'Saber ( Brazil) * Charles Christopher Adams (USA) * Warder Clyde Allee (USA) * Herbert G. Andrewartha ( Australia) * Sarah Martha Baker ( UK) *

Fakhri A. Bazzaz Professor Fakhri Al-Bazzaz (June 16, 1933 – February 6, 2008) (nicknamed by his students, "Chief") was an Iraqi-American plant ecologist specializing in the study of plant community ecological succession. A professor and prolific author, he ...

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John Beard John Beard may refer to: * John Beard (artist) (born 1943), Welsh artist and painter * John Beard (colonial administrator) (died 1685), Chief Agent and Governor of Bengal * John Beard (embryologist) (1858–1924), Scottish embryologist and anatomi ...

(UK) * William Dwight Billings (USA) * Louis Charles Birch (Australia) * Murray Bookchin (USA) *

George Bornemissza George Francis Bornemissza (born György Ferenc Bornemissza; 11 February 1924 – 10 April 2014) was a Hungarian-born entomologist and ecologist. He studied science at the University of Budapest before obtaining his Ph.D. in zoology at the Un ...

(Australia) * Emma Lucy Braun (USA) * James Brown (USA) * Murray Fife Buell (USA) *

Arthur Cain Arthur James Cain FRS (25 July 1921 – 20 August 1999) was a British evolutionary biologist and ecologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1989. Life Arthur James Cain was awarded an open scholarship in 1939 (Demyship) to Mag ...

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Archie Fairly Carr Archie Fairly Carr, Jr. (June 16, 1909 – May 21, 1987) was an American herpetologist, ecologist, and conservationist. He was a Professor of Zoology at the University of Florida and an acclaimed writer on science and nature. He brought attentio ...

(USA) * Rachel Carson (USA) *

Jeannine Cavender-Bares Jeannine Cavender-Bares is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior. Her research integrates evolutionary biology, ecology, and physiology by studying the fun ...

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F. Stuart Chapin III F. Stuart Chapin III (or Terry Chapin) (born February 2, 1944) is a professor of Ecology at the Department of Biology and Wildlife of the Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska. He was President of the Ecological Society of America (ESA ...

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Eric Charnov Eric Lee Charnov (born October 29, 1947) is an American evolutionary ecologist. He is best known for his work on foraging, especially the marginal value theorem, and life history theory, especially sex allocation and scaling/allometric rules. ...

(USA) * Liz Chicaje (Peru) *

Frederic Clements Frederic Edward Clements (September 16, 1874 – July 26, 1945) was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of plant ecology and vegetation succession. Biography Born in Lincoln, Nebraska, he studied botany at the University of Neb ...

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Barry Commoner Barry Commoner (May 28, 1917 – September 30, 2012) was an American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician. He was a leading ecologist and among the founders of the modern environmental movement. He was the director of the ...

(USA) * Henry Shoemaker Conard (USA) * Joseph H. Connell (USA) *

William Skinner Cooper William Skinner Cooper (25 August 1884 – 8 October 1978) was an American ecologist. Cooper received his B.S. in 1906 from Alma College in Michigan. In 1909, he entered graduate school at the University of Chicago, where he studied with Henry Chan ...

(USA) * Charles F. Cooper (USA) * Henry Chandler Cowles (USA) * John T. Curtis (USA) *

Pierre Dansereau Pierre Dansereau (October 5, 1911 – September 28, 2011) was a Canadian ecologist from Quebec known as one of the "fathers of ecology". Biography Born in Outremont, Quebec (now part of Montreal), he received a Bachelor of Science in Agricult ...

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Frank Fraser Darling Sir Frank Fraser Darling FRSE (23 June 1903 – 22 October 1979) was an English ecologist, ornithologist, farmer, conservationist and author, who is strongly associated with the highlands and islands of Scotland. He gives his name to the Fraser ...

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Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ( ; 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist, and biologist, widely known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended fr ...

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Aparajita Datta Aparajita Datta (born 1970) is an Indian wildlife ecologist who works for the Nature Conservation Foundation. Her research in the dense tropical forests of Arunachal Pradesh has successfully focused on hornbills, saving them from poachers. ...

(India) * Margaret Bryan Davis (USA) * Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. (USA) * Vojislav D. Dević ( Serbia) * Rene Dubos (USA)

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* Frank Edwin Egler (USA) *

Paul R. Ehrlich Paul Ralph Ehrlich (born May 29, 1932) is an American biologist known for his warnings about the consequences of population growth and limited resources. He is the Bing Professor Emeritus of Population Studies of the Department of Biology of St ...

(USA) * Thomas Eisner (USA) *

Heinz Ellenberg Heinz Ellenberg (1 August 1913 in Harburg (Elbe) – 2 May 1997 in Göttingen) was a German biologist, botanist and ecologist. Ellenberg was an advocate of viewing ecological systems through holistic means. He developed 9–point scales for ratin ...

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Charles S. Elton Charles Sutherland Elton (29 March 1900 – 1 May 1991) was an English zoologist and animal ecologist. He is associated with the development of population and community ecology, including studies of invasive organisms. Personal life Charles S ...

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Stephen Alfred Forbes Stephen Alfred Forbes (May 29, 1844 – March 13, 1930) was the first chief of the Illinois Natural History Survey, a founder of aquatic ecosystem science and a dominant figure in the rise of American ecology. His publications are striking for th ...

(USA) * Marie-Josée Fortin (Canada) * Robin B. Foster (USA) *

Douglas Futuyma Douglas Joel Futuyma (born 24 April 1942) is an American evolutionary biologist. He is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York and a Research Associate on staff at the ...

(USA) * Jacquelyn Gill (USA) *

Henry Gleason Henry Allan Gleason (1882–1975) was an American ecologist, botanist, and taxonomist. He was known for his endorsement of the individualistic or open community concept of ecological succession, and his opposition to Frederic Clements's concept ...

(USA) * Robert Fiske Griggs (USA) *

J. Philip Grime John Philip Grime (30April 193519April 2021) was an ecologist and emeritus professor at the University of Sheffield. He is best known for the universal adaptive strategy theory (UAST) and the twin filter model of community assembly with Simon ...

(UK) * Peter J. Grubb (UK) * Ernst Haeckel (Germany) *

Nelson Hairston Nelson Hairston Sr. (16 October 1917 – 31 July 2008) was an American ecologist. Hairston is well known for his work in ecology and human disease. In the field of ecology he is famous for championing the idea of the trophic cascade, on which he pu ...

(USA) * Henry Paul Hansen (USA) * Ilkka Hanski ( Finland) * Garrett Hardin (USA) *

John L. Harper John Lander Harper (27 May 1925 – 22 March 2009) was a British biologist, specializing in ecology and plant population biology. Life He was born in 1925 and educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby. He obtained his degree in Botany in (1 ...

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John William Harshberger John William Harshberger, (January 1, 1869 – April 27, 1929) was an American botanist who specialized in plant geography, ecology and plant pathology. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania for more than 35 years. He was an ardent plant con ...

(USA) * Jeff Harvey (USA) * Alan Hastings (USA) * C.S. Holling (Canada) * Stephen P. Hubbell (USA) *

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...

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G. Evelyn Hutchinson George Evelyn Hutchinson (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecolog ...

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Rolf Anker Ims Rolf Anker Ims (born 19 May 1958) is a Norwegian ecologist. He was born in Oslo. He took the dr.philos. degree in 1989, and was appointed as a professor of landscape ecology at the University of Oslo in 1992. In 2001 he moved to the University of ...

( Norway) * Johs. Iversen ( Denmark) * Frances Crews James (USA) *

Daniel Janzen Daniel Hunt Janzen (born January 18, 1939 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American evolutionary ecologist, and conservationist. He divides his time between his professorship in biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the DiMaura ...

(USA) * E. A. Johnson (Canada) * Rahanna Alicia Juman (Trinidad and Tobago) * Paul Keddy (Canada) * Hanna Kokko ( Finland) *

Charles Krebs Charles Joseph Krebs (born 17 September 1936) is a professor emeritus of population ecology in the University of British Columbia Department of Zoology. He is also Thinker-in-residence at the Institute for Applied Ecology at the University of C ...

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David Lack David Lambert Lack FRS (16 July 1910 – 12 March 1973) was a British evolutionary biologist who made contributions to ornithology, ecology, and ethology. His 1947 book, ''Darwin's Finches'', on the finches of the Galapagos Islands was a landm ...

(UK) * Hugh Lamprey (UK) * Pierre Legendre (Canada) *

Aldo Leopold Aldo Leopold (January 11, 1887 – April 21, 1948) was an American writer, philosopher, naturalist, scientist, ecologist, forester, conservationist, and environmentalist. He was a professor at the University of Wisconsin and is best known for his ...

(USA) * Estella Leopold (USA) * Simon A. Levin (USA) *

Richard Levins Richard "Dick" Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who researched diversity in human populations. U ...

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Gene Likens Gene Elden Likens (born January 6, 1935) is an American limnologist and ecologist. He co-founded the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest in 1963, and founded the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbro ...

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Raymond Lindeman Raymond Laurel Lindeman (1915 – June 29, 1942) was an ecologist whose graduate research is credited with being a seminal study in the field of ecosystem ecology, specifically on the topic of trophic dynamics. Graduate research work Lindeman ...

(USA) * Alton A. Lindsey (USA) * Daniel A. Livingstone (USA) *

Thomas Lovejoy Thomas Eugene Lovejoy III (August 22, 1941December 25, 2021) was an American ecologist who was President of the Amazon Biodiversity Center, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Foundation and a university professor in the Environmental Science ...

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Jane Lubchenco Jane Lubchenco (born December 4, 1947) is an American environmental scientist and marine ecologist who teaches and conducts research at Oregon State University. Her research interests include interactions between the environment and human well- ...

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Artist, naturalist, Sergio Rossetti Morosini, Pico Bone, Brigadeiro Mountain, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2017

Robert MacArthur Robert Helmer MacArthur (April 7, 1930 – November 1, 1972) was a Canadian-born American ecologist who made a major impact on many areas of community and population ecology. Early life and education MacArthur was born in Toronto, Ontario, ...

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Georgina Mace Dame Georgina Mary Mace, One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (12 July 1953 – 19 September 2020) was a British ecologist and conservation scientist. She was Professor of Biodiver ...

(UK) * Michael Marder (Spain) *

Ramon Margalef Ramon Margalef i López ( Barcelona 16 May 1919 - 23 May 2004) was a Spanish biologist and ecologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Ecology at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona. Margalef, one of the most prominent scientists t ...

( Spain) * Robert May (Australia/UK) * James B. McGraw (USA) * Samuel Joseph McNaughton (USA) * Ian McTaggart-Cowan (Canada) * Antônia Melo (Brazil) * Peter Menkhorst (Australia) * John P. Milton (USA) *

Karl Möbius Karl August Möbius (7 February 1825 in Eilenburg – 26 April 1908 in Berlin) was a German zoologist who was a pioneer in the field of ecology and a former director of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Early life Möbius was born in Eile ...

(Germany) * Harold A. Mooney (USA) *

Ann Haven Morgan Ann Haven Morgan (born "Anna" May 6, 1882 – June 5, 1966) was an American zoologist and ecologist. Biography One of three children of Stanley G. Morgan and Julia A. Douglass Morgan, Anna Morgan was born in Waterford, Connecticut and attend ...

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Timothy Morton Timothy Bloxam Morton (born 19 June 1968) is a professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University. A member of the object-oriented philosophy movement, Morton's work explores the intersection of object-oriented thought and ecolog ...

(USA) * Sergio Rossetti Morosini (Brazil-USA) * Cornelius Muller (USA) * William W. Murdoch (USA) * Robert J. Naiman (USA) * Howard Nelson ( Trinidad and Tobago) *

Eugene Odum Eugene Pleasants Odum (September 17, 1913 – August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He and his brother Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook, ''Funda ...

(USA) * Howard Odum (USA) * Henry J. Oosting (USA) * Gordon Howell Orians (USA) * Richard S. Ostfeld (USA) * Jennifer Owen (UK) *

Ruth Patrick Ruth (or its variants) may refer to: Places France * Château de Ruthie, castle in the commune of Aussurucq in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France Switzerland * Ruth, a hamlet in Cologny United States * Ruth, Alabama * Ruth, Ar ...

(USA) * Stephanie Peay (UK) * Carlos A. Peres (Brazil) *

Javier Perez-Capdevila Javier Perez-Capdevila (born February 7, 1963) is a Cuban scientist, mathematician and professor, known for the introduction of the operation mixed mixtures of fuzzy sets, among other theoretical contributions to fuzzy mathematics, as well as to i ...

( Cuba) * E. C. Pielou (Canada) * Frank Alois Pitelka (USA) * Henry de Puyjalon (Canada)

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* Elsie Quarterman (USA) * T. A. Rabotnov (

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eight ...

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Leonty Ramensky Leonty Grigoryevich Ramensky (russian: Лео́нтий Григо́рьевич Ра́менский; – January 27, 1953) was a plant ecologist who conceived several important ideas that were overlooked in the West and later ’re-invented’ ...

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Derek Ratcliffe Derek Almey Ratcliffe (9 July 1929 – 23 May 2005) was one of the most significant British nature conservationists of the 20th century. He was Chief Scientist for the Nature Conservancy Council at the Monks Wood Experimental Station, Abbots Rip ...

(UK) * Christen Raunkiær (Denmark) * Alfred Clarence Redfield (USA) * Edward Ricketts (USA) *

Robert Ricklefs Robert Eric Ricklefs (born June 6, 1943) is an American ornithologist and ecologist. He was the Curators' Professor of Biology at the University of Missouri, St. Louis from 1996 until August 2019. Education Born in 1943, he grew up near Monterey, ...

(USA) * Edith A. Roberts (USA) * Michael Rosenzweig (USA) *

Joan Roughgarden Joan Roughgarden (born Jonathan David Roughgarden, 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in ''Anolis'' lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitme ...

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Edward James Salisbury Sir Edward James Salisbury CBE FRS (16 April 1886 – 10 November 1978) was an English botanist and ecologist. He was born in Harpenden, Hertfordshire and graduated in botany from University College London in 1905. In 1913, he obtained a D.Sc ...

(UK) * José Sarukhán (Mexico) *

David Schindler David William Schindler, , (August 3, 1940 – March 4, 2021) was an American/Canadian limnologist. He held the Killam Memorial Chair and was Professor of Ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, A ...

(Canada) * William H. Schlesinger (USA) * Karl Patterson Schmidt (USA) * Thomas W. Schoener (USA) *

Paul Sears Paul Bigelow Sears (December 17, 1891 – April 30, 1990) was an American ecologist and writer. He was born in Bucyrus, Ohio. Sears attended Ohio Wesleyan University (B.Sc. in Zoology, 1913; B.A. in Economics, 1914), the University of Nebraska at ...

(USA) * Homer Leroy Shantz (USA) * Victor Ernest Shelford (USA) *

Daniel Simberloff Daniel Simberloff is a biologist and ecologist who earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1969. He is currently Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee, editor-in-chief of the journal '' Biological In ...

(USA) * Lawrence B. Slobodkin (USA) * Ian Stirling (Canada) *

George Sugihara George Sugihara (born in Tokyo, Japan) is currently a professor of biological oceanography in the Physical Oceanography Research Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where he is the inaugural holder of the McQuown Chair in Natural ...

(USA) * Raman Sukumar ( India) *

Arthur Tansley Sir Arthur George Tansley FLS, FRS (15 August 1871 – 25 November 1955) was an English botanist Botany, also called , plant biology or phytology, is the science of plant life and a branch of biology. A botanist, plant scientist or phy ...

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John Terborgh John Whittle Terborgh (born April 16, 1936) is a James B. Duke Professor of Environmental Science at Duke University and Co-Director of the Center for Tropical Conservation. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and for the past thi ...

(USA) * G. David Tilman (USA) * Donald Ward Tinkle (USA) * C. Richard Tracy (USA) *

Göte Turesson Göte Wilhelm Turesson (6 April 1892 – 30 December 1970) was a Swedish evolutionary botanist who made significant contributions to ecological genetics, and coined the terms ecotype and agamospecies. He conducted extensive work to demonstrate ...

( Sweden) * Monica Turner (USA)

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* Robert Ulanowicz (USA) *

Peter Vitousek Peter Morrison Vitousek (born January 24, 1949 http://www.japanprize.jp/data/press/2010/Citation_CV_ProfVitousek_E.pdf ) is an American ecologist, particularly known for his work on the nitrogen cycle. Born in Hawaii, Vitousek graduated from Amh ...

(USA) * Eugenius Warming (Denmark) *

Alexander Watt Alexander Stuart Watt FRS(21 June 1892 – 2 March 1985) was a Scottish botanist and plant ecologist. Life Watt was born on an Aberdeenshire farm and went to school at Turriff Secondary School and Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen. He gradu ...

(UK) * John Ernest Weaver (USA) * Franklin White (Canada) * Robert Whittaker (USA) * George C. Williams (USA) *

Edward Osborne Wilson Edward Osborne Wilson (June 10, 1929 – December 26, 2021) was an American biologist, naturalist, entomologist and writer. According to David Attenborough, Wilson was the world's leading expert in his specialty of myrmecology, the study of an ...

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Sergei Winogradsky Sergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky (or Vinohradsky; published under the name of Sergius Winogradsky or M. S. Winogradsky from Ukrainian Mykolayovych Serhiy; uk, Сергій Миколайович Виноградський; 1 September 1856 – ...

(Russia) * Christian Wissel (Germany) *

Albert Hazen Wright Albert Hazen Wright (August 15, 1879 – July 5, 1970) was an American herpetologist and professor at Cornell University. He was also an honorary member of the International Ornithological Congress. He did a great deal of study of the Okefenokee Sw ...

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Joy Zedler Joy Buswell Zedler (born 1943) is an American ecologist Ecology () is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment. Ecology considers organisms at the individual, population, ...

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