The European Origins of Scientific Ecology

Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-90-5699-103-6
Verlag: Gordon and Breach

Buch, Englisch, 976 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 2259 g

Over the last few decades, historians of scientific ecology have brought to light the role of the European scientists who have laid the basic cornerstones of modern ecology between the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The foundations of geobotany were laid by Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (1778-1841), Alphonse Jules Dureau de la Malle (1777-1857), Gaston Bonnier (1853-1922) and Charles Flahault (1852-1935); biocenotics, by Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), Charles Lyell (1797-1875), Pierre-François Verhulst (1804-1849), Charles Darwin (1809-1882), Karl Moebius (1825-1908), Charles Valentine-Riley (1843-1895), and François-Alphonse Forel (1841-1912); agrochemistry and microbiology by Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1802-1887), and Stanislas Winogradski (1856-1953); the taxonomy of communities by August Heinrich Grisebach (1813-1879), Anton Kerner von Marilaün (1831-1898), Alphonse de Candolle (1806-1893), and Charles Flahault; and anthropogeography by Karl Ritter (1779-1859), Elisée Reclus (1830-1905), and Friederich Ratzel (1844-1904). Together, they created the conditions that, with Eugenius Warming (1841-1924), gave birth to the autonomous discipline of scientific ecology, thirty years after the German biologist Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) had christened this new branch of biology.
Up to now, the writings of these scientists have been scattered in various publications that were often not accessible, which made a comparative study almost impossible. There was thus a need to bring together the primary sources in their original form, pagination, and language (whenever possible, a version of the text has been made available in a second language as well). They are gathered here in two volumes, in an analytical framework that aids in understanding their relevant historical context and significance.
To deal with the complex multidisciplinary roots of the history of ecology, Pascal Acot has brought together a group of historians with authoritative knowledge of the field's various sub-branches, without ever losing sight of ecology's relationship to the broader history of biology and the environmental sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Acot, Pascal

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Human- und Sozialwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword and Acknowledgements, Introduction, 1. Botanical Geography, 1.1 Alexander von Humboldt (1807), 1.2 Augustin-Pyramus de Candolle (1820), 1.3 Adolphe Jules Dureau de la Malle (1825) 1.4 Gaston Bonnier and Charles Flahault (1878) 2. The Structuring Of Communities, 2.1 Erasmus Darwin (1800), 2.2 Charles Lyell (1830), 2.3 Charles Darwin (1859), 2.4a Karl Moebius (1877), 2.4b (1883), 2.5 Pierre-François Verhulst (1838), 2.6 Pierre-François Verhulst (1845), 2.7 Charles Valentine Riley (1893), 2.8 Paul Marchai (1897), 2.9 François-Alphonse Forel (1892-1901), 3. AGROCHEMISTRY AND BACTERIAL AUTOTROPHY, 3.1 Justus Liebig (1840), 3.2 Justus Liebig (1876), 3.3 Justus Liebig (1844), 3.4 Jean-Baptiste Boussingault (1838), 3.5 Sergei Winogradski (1887), 4. THE TAXONOMY AND NOMENCLATURE OF PLANT GROUPS, 4.1 August Heinrich Rudolf Grisebach (1838), 4.2 Anton Kemer von Marilaün (1863), 4.3 Alphonse de Candolle (1874), 4.4 Charles Flahault (1900), 5. THE GEOGRAPHY OF HUMAN SOCIETIES, 5.1a Karl Ritter (1822), 5.1b (1836), 5.2 Élisée Reclus (1881), 5.3 Élisée Reclus (1905-1908), 5.4 Élisée Reclus (1869), 5.5a Friedrich Ratzel (1896-1898), 5.5b (1894-1895), 6. THE BIRTH OF SCIENTIFIC ECOLOGY, 6.1 Ernst Haeckel (1866), 6.2a Ernst Haeckel (1868), 6.2b (1874), 6.3 Ernst Haeckel (1870), 6.4a Emst Haeckel (1874), 6.4b (1877), 6.5a (1895), 6.5b (1896), Bibliography, Index, List of contributors

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