BIO 307 Ecologists

Carl Linnaeus

Binomial nomenclature and economy of nature

Alexander von Humboldt

Biogeography

Charles Darwin

Theory of evolution, natural selection, galapagos finches

Ernest Haeckel

termed the word ecology, phylogenetic trees, father of ecology

Eugenius Warming

plant ecological geography

Henry Chandler Cowels

ecological succession

Charles Elton

animal ecology

Racheal Carson

Marine biologist, silent spring

Dian Fossey

Primatologist, gorillas in the mist

Ruth Patrick

Botanist and limnologist

Aldo Leopold

Popularized nature through his writings

Richard Levins

The principle of allocation, all organisms have access to limited energy resources

Grime

classification scheme for plant life histories (based on stress and disturbances)

G. Evelyn Hutchinson

N-dimensional hypervolume, paradox of plankton

David Tilman

Looked at competition between Asterionella and Synerda and their ability to utilize silica, found that they were both fine on their own but once mixed one preformed better than the other. Looked at plant distribution based on availability of nitrogen and moisture in the soil

Robert H. MacArthur

Co-existence and niche partitioning (warblers in the tree)

A. J. Lotka and Vito Volterra

Lotka-Volterra competition model and equation

Robert Paine

Effects of predation on populations and communities (study with starfish and study with lizards on that little island)

Holmes and Price

came up with the four criteria that define a parasite

Fredrick Clements

Succession

Henry Gleason

Succession

Connell and Slayer

Proposed the three models of succession (facilitation, tolerance, and inhibition)

Alfred Russel Wallace

Six different biogeographic regions, with unique evolutionary histories

Mittelbach

Summarized the hypotheses in three categories (rate of species diversification is higher in the tropics, diversification rates are similar but evolutionary time is greater in the tropics, and higher productivity results in more abundant resources in the tropics

Simberloff and Wilson

Island biogeography (manipulated mangrove islands by Florida by praying with insecticides to remove all insects and spiders…then monitored recolonization over several years)

Tonn

Filter analogy for species occurrence patterns

Raymon Lindeman

Production

Bowman

Fertilization experiment in dry and wet alpine meadow communities

David Schnidler

Experiment with 58 small lakes and their drainage basins, whole lake fertilization experiments

Martin

NPP in the equatorial pacific ocean appears to be limited by iron

Dasmann and Ehrenfeld

Introdiced conservation biology