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The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory
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The Background of Ecology is a critical and up-to-date review of the origins and development of ecology, with emphasis on the major concepts and theories shared in the ecological traditions of plant and animal ecology, limnology, and oceanography. The work traces developments in each of these somewhat isolated areas and identifies, where possible, parallels or convergences among them. Dr McIntosh describes how ecology emerged as a science in the context of nineteenth-century natural histor
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- Authors
- McIntosh, R. P.
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1985-05-31
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- W4205627216
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- 605
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- 13.38
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- book
- Language
- en
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- closed
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