This is a list of notable ecologists.

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Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

) * Charles Christopher Adams (USA) * Warder Clyde Allee (USA) * Herbert G. Andrewartha ( Australia) * Sarah Martha Baker ( UK) * Fakhri A. Bazzaz (USA) * John Beard (UK) * William Dwight Billings (USA) * Louis Charles Birch (Australia) * Murray Bookchin (USA) * George Bornemissza (Australia) *

Emma Lucy Braun E. Lucy Braun (April 19, 1889 – March 5, 1971) was a prominent botanist, ecologist, and expert on the forests of the eastern United States who was a professor of the University of Cincinnati. She was the first woman to be elected President o ...

(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 Ma ...

(USA) * Archie Fairly Carr (USA) *

Rachel Carson Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book '' Silent Spring'' (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental ...

(USA) * Jeannine Cavender-Bares (USA) * F. Stuart Chapin III (USA) * Eric Charnov (USA) * Liz Chicaje (Peru) * Frederic Clements (USA) * Barry Commoner (USA) * Henry Shoemaker Conard (USA) * Joseph H. Connell (USA) * William Skinner Cooper (USA) * Charles F. Cooper (USA) * Henry Chandler Cowles (USA) * John T. Curtis (USA) * Pierre Dansereau (

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

) * Frank Fraser Darling (UK) *

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 ...

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England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...

) * Aparajita Datta (India) *

Margaret Bryan Davis Dr. Margaret Bryan Davis (''née'' Margaret Bryan; born October 23, 1931) is an American palynologist and paleoecologist, who used pollen data to study the vegetation history of the past 21,000 years (i.e. since the last ice age). She showed concl ...

(USA) * Edward Smith Deevey, Jr. (USA) * Vojislav D. Dević (

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

) * Rene Dubos (USA)

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Frank Edwin Egler Frank Edwin Egler (April 26, 1911 – December 26, 1996) was an American plant ecologist and pioneer in the study of vegetation science. In addition to his groundbreaking research, he assisted Rachel Carson in preparing ''Silent Spring''. Early l ...

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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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Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

) * Charles S. Elton (UK) *

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 (UK) * Peter J. Grubb (UK) * Ernst Haeckel (Germany) * Nelson Hairston (USA) * Henry Paul Hansen (USA) * Ilkka Hanski (

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

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Garrett Hardin Garrett James Hardin (April 21, 1915 – September 14, 2003) was an American ecologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same t ...

(USA) * John L. Harper (UK) * John William Harshberger (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, ...

(Prussia/Germany) * G. Evelyn Hutchinson (UK/USA)

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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 ...

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Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

) * Johs. Iversen (

Denmark ) , song = ( en, "King Christian stood by the lofty mast") , song_type = National and royal anthem , image_map = EU-Denmark.svg , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of Denmark , establish ...

) * Frances Crews James (USA) * Daniel Janzen (USA) * E. A. Johnson (Canada) * Rahanna Alicia Juman (Trinidad and Tobago) * Paul Keddy (Canada) * Hanna Kokko (

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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 (USA) *

Estella Leopold Estella Bergere Leopold (born 1927) is an American paleobotanist and a conservationist. As a researcher in the United States Geological Survey, she aided in uncovering records of plant life from the Miocene around the Eniwetok and Bikini Atolls ...

(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 (USA) * Jane Lubchenco (USA)

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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 ...

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Michael Marder Michael Marder is Ikerbasque Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz. He works in the phenomenological tradition of Continental philosophy, environmental thought, and political philosophy. Educa ...

(Spain) * Ramon Margalef (

Spain , image_flag = Bandera de España.svg , image_coat = Escudo de España (mazonado).svg , national_motto = ''Plus ultra'' (Latin)(English: "Further Beyond") , national_anthem = (English: "Royal March") , i ...

) * 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 (Germany) * Harold A. Mooney (USA) * Ann Haven Morgan (USA) * Timothy Morton (USA) * Sergio Rossetti Morosini (Brazil-USA) * Cornelius Muller (USA) * William W. Murdoch (USA) * Robert J. Naiman (USA) * Howard Nelson (

Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago (, ), officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean. Consisting of the main islands Trinidad and Tobago, and numerous much smaller islands, it is situated south of ...

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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, ''Fun ...

(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 ...

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Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

) * 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-eig ...

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

) * Leonty Ramensky (Russia/Soviet Union) *

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 Edward Flanders Robb Ricketts (May 14, 1897 – May 11, 1948) was an American marine biologist, ecologist, and philosopher. He is best known for '' Between Pacific Tides'' (1939), a pioneering study of intertidal ecology. He is also known as a m ...

(USA) * Robert Ricklefs (USA) * Edith A. Roberts (USA) * Michael Rosenzweig (USA) * Joan Roughgarden (USA) * Edward James Salisbury (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 Thomas William Schoener (born August 9, 1943, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) is an American ecologist and professor at University of California, Davis. In 1969, he received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he was a Harvard Society of Fellows, ...

(USA) * Paul Sears (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 (USA) *

Raman Sukumar Raman Sukumar is an Indian ecologist best known for his work on the ecology of the Asian elephant and wildlife-human conflict. He also works on climate change, and tropical forest ecology. He was born in India in 1955. In 1986, Sukumar helped to d ...

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India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

) * Arthur Tansley (UK) * John Terborgh (USA) * G. David Tilman (USA) * Donald Ward Tinkle (USA) * C. Richard Tracy (USA) * Göte Turesson ( Sweden) *

Monica Turner Monica G. Turner is an American ecologist known for her work at Yellowstone National Park since the large fires of 1988. She is currently the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Life and career Turne ...

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* Robert Ulanowicz (USA) * Peter Vitousek (USA) *

Eugenius Warming Eugenius (died 6 September 394) was a usurper in the Western Roman Empire (392–394) against Emperor Theodosius I. While Christian himself, Eugenius capitalized on the discontent in the West caused by Theodosius' religious policies targeting p ...

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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 gradua ...

(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 ...

(USA) * Sergei Winogradsky (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 S ...

(USA) * Joy Zedler (USA)

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