The art of ecology : writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson /

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Main Author: Hutchinson, G. Evelyn (George Evelyn), 1903-1991 (Author)
Other Authors: Skelly, David K. (Editor), Post, David M. (Editor), Smith, Melinda D. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2010]
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Table of Contents:
  • The beauty of the world: Evelyn Hutchinson's vision of science / Sharon E. Kingsland
  • Aria da Capo and Quodlibet
  • New England moral to adorn the tale (excerpt)
  • From English schoolboy to America's foremost ecologist / Nancy G. Slack
  • A swimming grasshopper
  • Emmanuel: being taught (excerpt)
  • Emmanuel: learning (excerpts)
  • Astonishing microcosms / David M. Post and David W. Schindler
  • Limnological studies at high altitudes in Ladak
  • Chemical stratification and lake morphology
  • Limnological studies in Connecticut: IV. The mechanisms of intermediary metabolism in stratified lakes
  • The history of a lake
  • A direct demonstration of the phosphorus cycle in a small lake / with V. T. Bowen
  • The lacustrine microcosm reconsidered
  • A treatise on limnology, vol. 1: geography, physics, and chemistry (excerpts)
  • Reflection thereon: G. Evelyn Hutchinson and ecological theory / Melinda D. Smith and David K. Skelly
  • Ecological aspects of succession in natural populations
  • Copepodology for the ornithologist
  • The concept of pattern in ecology
  • Concluding remarks
  • Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why are there so many kinds of animals?
  • The paradox of the plankton
  • The influence of the environment
  • Thoughts on aquatic insects
  • Experiencing green pigeons / Michael J. Donoghue and Jane Pickering
  • A note on the functions of a university
  • The uses of beetles
  • The naturalist as an art critic
  • The cream in the gooseberry fool
  • On being a meter and a half long
  • Aysthorpe
  • Conjectures arising in a quiet museum.