Abstract
External Influences on Ecological Theory: Report on Organized Oral Session 80 at the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
Highlights
The 100-year history of the Ecological Society of America spans most of the major advances in the field of ecology, from the “niche” of Grinnell and others, to Lotka and Volterra’s models of predation and competition based on the logistic growth equation, to the concept of competitive exclusion developed from experimental ecology, to genetics and evolutionary ecology and all the ramifications and specializations of these topics over the rest of the 20th and into the 21st century
Ellison et al quantified changes over time in the frequency of 45 ecological concepts grouped in four clusters: “stability/equilibrium,” “succession,” “resilience,” and “landscape” and found that 12 concepts dominated across the 94-y ear period, with their rank-order being virtually invariant through time and between the journals
Ecologists working in the mainstream of ecology appear to work in a conceptual space that was intellectually conditioned and constrained when ecology emerged as a formal discipline over 100 years ago.”
Summary
External Influences on Ecological Theory: Report on Organized Oral Session 80 at the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Ecological Society of America. The 100-year history of the Ecological Society of America spans most of the major advances in the field of ecology, from the “niche” of Grinnell and others, to Lotka and Volterra’s models of predation and competition based on the logistic growth equation, to the concept of competitive exclusion developed from experimental ecology, to genetics and evolutionary ecology and all the ramifications and specializations of these topics over the rest of the 20th and into the 21st century
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