Early Marine Ecology. History of Ecology.

1979 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 472-472
Author(s):  
Joel W. Hedgpeth
Keyword(s):  
Marine Ecology ◽  
History Of Ecology ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals The Environment Is Not A System

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-165
Author(s):  
Tega Brain
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Mass Extinction ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of Ecology ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Systems View ◽  
Manipulation And Control

This paper considers some of the limitations and possibilities of computational models in the context of environmental inquiry, specifically exploring the modes of knowledge production that it mobilizes. Historic computational attempts to model, simulate and make predictions about environmental assemblages, both emerge from and reinforce a systems view on the world. The word eco-system itself stands as a reminder that the history of ecology is enmeshed with systems theory and presup-poses that species entanglements are operational or functional. More surreptitiously, a systematic view of the environment connotes it as bounded, knowable and made up of components operating in chains of cause and effect. This framing strongly invokes possibilities of manipulation and control and implicitly asks: what should an ecosystem be optimized for? This question is particularly relevant at a time of rapid climate change, mass extinction and, conveniently, an unprecedented surplus of computing.

Ecology: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaboury Ghazoul
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Environmental Decisions ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
History Of Ecology ◽  
Boom And Bust ◽  
History Of ◽  
Boom And Bust Cycles ◽  
Ecological Thinking

Ecology is the science of how organisms interact with each other and their environment to form communities and ecosystems. Ecology: A Very Short Introduction explains the history of ecology, the principles of ecological thinking, how ecology affects our everyday lives, and how it guides environmental decisions, especially in the light of current and future environmental challenges. What are the factors behind ‘boom and bust’ cycles in species populations? How and why do two species cooperate? Do humans need so many species? The cultural significance of ecology is also explored, with examples of different schools of thought that envisage ecology as a science and a worldview.

New Cartographies of Variation

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
History Of Ecology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Reflections

This concluding chapter summarizes the major points posited so far in this book, and contains the author's personal reflections on the need for new cartographies of study in the presence of these naturecultural paradigms. It emphasizes the need to replace insular and narrowly focused areas of study with communal histories and communal storytelling. Naturecultural visions show us that individual disciplines are each imbued with cultural norms and histories while being blind to those influences. Hence, the chapter also returns to the metaphor of ghosts in representing the silenced eugenic history of ecology and evolutionary biology and our consequent refusal to suitably acknowledge the horrors of eugenics.

Sea Ice, Seals, and Settlement

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-43
Author(s):  
Christopher B. Wolff ◽  
Donald H. Holly ◽  
Victor D. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Newfoundland And Labrador ◽  
Atlantic Cod ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Marine Ecology ◽  
Subarctic Region ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
Subsistence Economies ◽  
History Of

The cultural history of Newfoundland and Labrador is linked with the sea. The European occupation of this subarctic region was dependent on the abundance of Atlantic cod and other marine resources, such as seals, walrus, and whales. Precontact indigenous hunter gatherers of the region also relied heavily on marine ecology for their livelihood; yet, at various times in the region’s significant history, dynamic environmental and social conditions acted to change subsistence economies, cultures, and the course of its occupation. In this chapter, we examine archaeological, historical, and paleoecological evidence to assess the relative roles that environmental and social processes played in these critical transformations.

Examining Cetacean Ecology Using Historical Fishery Data

2001 ◽  
pp. 207-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim D. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Carrying Capacity ◽  
Breeding Success ◽  
Previous Analysis ◽  
Marine Ecology ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
Cetacean Species ◽  
History Of ◽  
Whaling Industry ◽  
Fishery Data

Tim D. Smith seeks to examine the ecology of cetacean species, by bringing together data from whaling logbooks, governmental records, the examination of historical environmental sources, and evidence from archaeological investigations, with the aim of creating a thorough and accurate history of the whaling industry and marine ecology. This final chapter raises the questions of changes in carrying capacity, breeding habitat, and breeding success of cetacean specifes, and concludes by finding gaps in records and previous analysis that the collaboration of whale biologists, ecolologists, climatologists and historians must seek to heal.

A Brief Introduction to the History of Ecology

2012 ◽  
Vol 74 (7) ◽  
pp. 441-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Kormondy
Keyword(s):  
History Of Ecology ◽  
History Of

In this issue of ABT that focuses on ecology, I believe it should be of interest to reflect briefly on its history and development to provide a context for what ecology is at present. Much of what follows is derived from my previous publications (Kormondy, 1965, 1996).

History of "Ecology%"

Science ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 188 (4186) ◽  
pp. 313-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Goodland
Keyword(s):  
History Of Ecology ◽  
History Of
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