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G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the invention of modern ecology / Nancy G. Slack ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson.
| Author/creator | Slack, Nancy G. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, |
| Description | xviii, 457 p. : ill., portraits ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | A man so various -- "The circumstances of my upbringing" -- Becoming a zoologist : the hunter and gatherer -- From Naples to South Africa : a failed career? -- First years at Yale -- Chief biologist : the Yale North India Expedition -- The first crop : W.T. Edmonton, Gordon Riley, Ed Deevey, and Max Dunbar -- The old and the new limnology -- Radioisotopes : radiation ecology and systems ecology -- Biogeochemistry : from Linsley Pond to the Guano Islands -- The three wives and Yemaiel -- Good friends : Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson -- Fond correspondents : Rebecca West and Evelyn Hutchinson -- From the N-dimensional niche to Santa Rosalia -- Hutchinson the environmentalist -- The polymath : art history and many other fields -- The last years - from Yale to England -- Concluding remarks: Hutchinson's legacy in ecology. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-442) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010019069 |
| ISBN | 9780300161380 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0300161387 (cloth : alk. paper) |