Birth of scientific ecology : Eugenius Warming (1841-1924)

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Author:

Matagne, Patrick, author.

ISBN:

9781394276691

9781394276677

9781394276684

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Series:

Ecological science series

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 From Mando to Lagoa Santa -- Chapter 1 Eugenius' Birthplace -- Chapter 2 Jutland: At the Roots of a Passion -- Chapter 3 An Interrupted University Course -- Chapter 4 From Rio to Lagoa Santa: A New World -- Part 2 Good Times and Bad -- Chapter 5 Outstanding Doctoral Studies -- Chapter 6 Intense Activity, a Detour via Stockholm -- Chapter 7 Back to Copenhagen -- Part 3. New Latitudes -- Chapter 8 Arctic and Tropical Missions -- Chapter 9 Eugenius' Arctic Botanical Geography -- Chapter 10 The Long-Term Tropics -- Part 4. Professor Warming's Ecology -- Chapter 11 1895 - 1896: Ecological Botanical Geography -- Chapter 12 Authorized Editions, or Not... -- Chapter 13 1909: Oecology of Plants in the Storm -- Chapter 14 Limits and Potentials -- Chapter 15 Warming's Ecology and Evolutionary Theories -- Part 5 The Ubiquitous Professor Warming -- Chapter 16 The Institutionalization of Ecology -- Chapter 17 The Man of Knowledge and Power -- Chapter 18 The Protagonist of the Danish Ecological Project -- General Conclusion -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Terms.

Abstract:

This book presents a biography of the Danish botanist Eugen Warming. As the author of a treatise on ecology that brought him international recognition, he was able to inspire the first generation of 20th-century European and American ecologists. His innovative approach to nature and his Arctic and tropical missions heralded the birth of a new science and an ecological awareness. As a professor at several Scandinavian universities during a period of intense debate and controversy over evolutionary theories, Eugen Warming vigorously asserted his convictions. Birth of Scientific Ecology presents the image of a man of knowledge and power, recognized by his contemporaries as a founder of ecology and a player in the ecological project of the Kingdom of Denmark at a time when the empires were clashing.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Personal Subject:

Warming, Eugenius, 1841-1924.

Subject Term:

Ecologists -- Biography.

Écologistes -- Biographies.

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