F. Egerton

Publications184
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Highly Influential Citations36
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Changing Concepts of the Balance of Nature
  • F. Egerton
  • Environmental Science
    The Quarterly Review of Biology
  • 1 June 1973
TLDR
Balance-of-nature concepts apparently have receded in importance with the rise of ecological specialization, probably because ecologists have developed more precise concepts of productivity and ecosystem can serve about the same explanatory functions.
A Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations. By Clive Ponting. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. xiv + 432 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, charts,…
Humboldt, Darwin, and population
  • F. Egerton
  • Biology
    Journal of the history of biology
  • 1970
TLDR
It now seems clear that Humboldt not only inspired Darwin to make a voyage of exploration, but also provided him with his basic orientation concerning how and what to observe and how to write about it.
A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 14: Plant Growth Studies in the 1600s
A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 12: Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology during the 1500s
History of Ecological Sciences, Part 43: Plant Physiology, 1800s
A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 13: Broadening Science in Italy and England, 1600–1650
History of Ecological Sciences, Part 51: Formalizing Marine Ecology, 1870s to 1920s
A History of the Ecological Sciences, Part 19: Leeuwenhoek's Microscopic Natural History
Understanding Food Chains and Food Webs, 1700–1970
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