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Also Known As environmental biology • bioecology • bionomics

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Zenaida macroura: mouring doves
Ernst Haeckel
Konrad Lorenz, an older man with white hair and a beard, wearing a suit and tie, looks to the side and smiles in this 1973 portrait.
light gray peppered moth (Biston betularia)
dark coloured peppered moth (Biston betularia)
Illustration showing three ecological scales: a single forest patch at the top, a cluster of forest patches in the middle, and a greater patch mosaic with forests, fields, and a river at the landscape level.
What is a trophic cascade?
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Key People

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G. Evelyn Hutchinson
American biologist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi writer and scientist
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Charles Elton
English biologist
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Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Murie, Margaret
Margaret Murie
American naturalist, conservationist, and writer
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Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
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Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
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Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist
Flannery, Tim
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist
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Raman Sukumar
Indian ecologist
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland
prime minister of Norway
Rachel Carson looks into a microscope in a laboratory setting, circa 1962.
Rachel Carson
American biologist
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Pierre Dansereau
Canadian plant ecologist
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Karl P. Schmidt
American zoologist
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E.F. Schumacher
British economist
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Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
Danish botanist
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Thomas Park
American animal ecologist
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Victor Ernest Shelford
American zoologist
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Orlando Park
American entomologist

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