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The Background of Ecology is a critical and up-to-date review of the origins and development of ecology, with emphasis on the major concepts and theories shared in the ecological traditions of plant and animal ecology, limnology, and oceanography. The work traces developments in each of these somewhat isolated areas and identifies, where possible, parallels or convergences among them. Dr McIntosh describes how ecology emerged as a science in the context of nineteenth-century natural histor

General ecology and biosociology --- Ecology --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology. --- Ecologia. --- Écologie. --- Ecologie. --- Ökologie. --- Life Sciences --- General and Others --- NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION --- ENVIRONMENT --- ECOSYSTEMS --- POPULATIONS --- QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS --- PALEOECOLOGY --- OCEANOGRAPHY --- LIMNOLOGY --- ANIMAL ECOLOGY --- PLANT ECOLOGY --- THEORY --- CONCEPTS --- ECOLOGY --- DEVELOPMENT --- ORIGIN --- HISTORY