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Readings in Population and Community Ecology
The current focus of interest in ecology, which emphasizes populations and communities as the proper objects of study in the science, is largely due to the stimulus of two books published in the 1920's: Lotka's Elements of Physical Biology and Elton's Animal Ecology. Both these volumes stressed the role of populations, with population dynamics or kinematics having central positions. Volterra's classic study should also be mentioned; its influence was more marked after 1931, when a translation of it appeared as an appendix to Chapman's Animal Ecology. In the next decade such works as Gause's The Struggle for Existence and Bodenheimer's Problems of Animal Ecology redirected the attention of investigators to theoretical problems and to their experimental solutions. In plant ecology, the discussions of Tansley, who proposed the term ecosystem for the fundamental ecological unit, had a similar function. It is difficult to point to particular recent authors, but Lindeman should be mentioned as one who directed the activity of working ecologists to the problems of productivity and efficiency.
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