Roots of Ecology (eBook)

Acknowledgments
Introduction

I. GREEKS AND ROMANS, ANTIQUITY

1. Early Greek Origins
2. Aristotle and Theophrastos
3. Hellenistic Natural History
4. Roman Natural History

II. MEDIEVAL MILLENNUM, A.D. 500 – 1500

5. Byzantine Natural History
6. Arabic Language Science: Origins and Zoology
7. Arabic Language Science: Botany, Geography and Decline
8. Frederick II, Amateur Avian Ecologist and Behaviorist
9. Albertus Magnus, a Scholastic Naturalist

III. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE & SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, 1500s-1600s

10. Botany during Italian Renaissance and Early Scientific Revolution
11. Vertebrate Zoology, 1500s
12. Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 1500s
13. Broadening Science in Italy and England, 1600-1650s
14. Plant Growth Studies, 1600s
15. Origins of Human and Animal Demography and Statistics
16. Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London
17. Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 1600s
18. John Ray and His Associates, Francis Willoughby & Wm Derham
19. Leeuwenhoek’s Microscopic Natural History

IV. NATURAL HISTORY, 1700s

20. Richard Bradley, Entrepreneurial Naturalist
21. Réaumur and His History of Insects
22. Early European Naturalists Explore Eastern North America
23. Linnaeus and the Economy of Nature
24. Buffon and Environmental Influences on Animals
25. John and William Bartram Explore Eastern North America
26. Gilbert White, Naturalist Extraordinaire
27. Naturalists Explore Russia and North Pacific Lands
28. Plant Growth Studies
29. Plant Disease Studies
30. Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology
31. Animal Population Studies

V. EMERGENCE OF ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 1800s

32. Humboldt, Nature’s Geographer
33. Naturalists Explore North America, mid-1780s-mid-1820s
34. A Changing Economy of Nature
35. Beginnings of British Marine Biology: Edward Forbes and Philip Gosse
36. Hewett Watson, Plant Geographer and Evolutionist
37. Charles Darwin’s Voyage on the Beagle
38. Naturalists Explore Western North America, mid 1820s-1850s
39. Henry David Thoreau, Ecologist
40. Darwin’s Evolutionary Ecology
41. Victorian Naturalists in Amazonia: Wallace, Bates and Spruce
42. Victorian Naturalists abroad: Hooker, Huxley and Wallace
43. Plant Physiology
44. Phytopathology
45. Entomology
46. From Parasitology to Germ Theory
47. Ernst Haeckel’s Ecology

Maps 1. Locator map, chapters 1-8

2.Locator map, chapters 9-31

3.Bering’s Voyages, 1727-29, 1741-42, in the North Pacific and Bering Sea

4.Humboldt’s Explorations in Spanish America

5.2. British vegetation subdivided into 18 provinces

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