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Author Hutchinson, G. Evelyn (George Evelyn), 1903-1991, author.

Title The art of ecology : writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson / edited by David K. Skelly, David M. Post and Melinda D. Smith ; foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy.

Publication Info. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2010]
2010

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages) : illustrations
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Note "Appendix. Publications of G. Evelyn Hutchinson": pages [325]-339.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Hutchinson, G. Evelyn (George Evelyn), 1903-1991 -- Influence.
Ecology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Skelly, David K., editor.
Post, David M., editor.
Smith, Melinda D., editor.
Added Title Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Other Form: Print version: Hutchinson, G. Evelyn Art of ecology : writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2010] xii, 356 pages ; 26 cm 9780300154498 (OCoLC)ocn601349231
ISBN 9780300154498 (pbk.)
0300154496 (pbk.)
9780300154498
9780300154504 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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