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" By ecology we mean the body of knowledge concerning the economy of nature — the investigation of the total relations of the animal both to its inorganic and to its organic environment... "
Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution - Page 58
by Leslie Paul Thiele - 1999 - 336 pages
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The Liberation of Life: From the Cell to the Community

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...
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The Background of Ecology: Concept and Theory

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...
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Saving the Mediterranean: The Politics of International Environmental ...

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...
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Anthology on Caring

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 —...
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A History of the Ecosystem Concept in Ecology: More Than the Sum of the Parts

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...
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Global Accord: Environmental Challenges and International Responses

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...
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Economics, Ecology, and the Roots of Western Faith: Perspectives from the Garden

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...
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An Introduction to Ecological Economics

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...
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This Is Biology

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...
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Perspectives on Garden Histories, Volume 21

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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