| Charles Birch, John B. Cobb - 1985 - 372 pages
...existence was given the name ecology by Ernst Haeckel (1870). 'By ecology', wrote Haeckel, 'we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact' - in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex interrelations... | |
| Robert P. McIntosh - 1986 - 404 pages
...elaborated on his brief mention of the word in 1866 and defined ecology as follows: By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact -in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex interrelations... | |
| Peter M. Haas - 1990 - 342 pages
...It was only popularized after World War II, although the term was coined by Haeckel in 1866 to mean: the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...and inimical relations with those animals and plants Origins of Awareness with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact — in a word, ecology... | |
| Peggy L. Chinn - 1991 - 374 pages
...In 1870 German biologist Ernst Haeckel, to whom the term is largely credited, described ecology as the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...environment; including above all, its friendly and inimical relation with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact —... | |
| Frank B. Golley - 1993 - 278 pages
...ecology appeared as the frontispiece in Allee et al., Principles of Animal Ecology: "By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations of the animal both to its inorganic and its organic environment; including above all, its friendly and inimical relations with those animals... | |
| Nazli Choucri - 1993 - 600 pages
...conception fulfills Ernst Haeckel's field-constituting, but now somewhat dated, definition of ecology as ... the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact — in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex... | |
| Robert R. Gottfried - 1995 - 180 pages
...atmosphere, soil, and oceans in which and with which we live. He defined it as follows: "By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact" (Cobb and Birch 1981, p. 29). Today we understatid ecology... | |
| Robert Costanza, John H Cumberland, Herman Daly, Robert Goodland, Richard B Norgaard - 1997 - 292 pages
...phenomenon. In 1870 Haeckel produced the first full-fledged definition of ecology: By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact — in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex... | |
| Ernst Mayr - 1997 - 356 pages
...for the "household of nature." In 1869 he proposed a more elaborate definition: "By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact — in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex... | |
| Michel Conan - 1999 - 252 pages
...landscape architects, and others who refer to garden history in a more general way. 4 "By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature...relations with those animals and plants with which it comes directly or indirectly into contact — in a word, ecology is the study of all those complex... | |
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