Table of Contents
100 relations: Alfred J. Lotka, Alfred Powell Morgan, Analog computer, AnnMari Jansson, Autoradiograph, Autotroph, Bachelor of Science, Biogeochemical cycle, Biology, Biomass, Biosphere 2, Birdwatching, Brazil, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Characteristica universalis, Charles A. S. Hall, Chemistry, Chemostat, Community structure, Crafoord Prize, Cybernetics, David M. Scienceman, Debora Hammond, Ecological economics, Ecological engineering, Ecological Society of America, Ecological stability, Ecology, Economics, Ecosystem, Ecosystem ecology, Ecosystem model, Ecosystem service, Embodied energy, Emergy, Empirical evidence, Energy flow (ecology), Energy systems language, Enewetak Atoll, Engineering, Estuary, Eugene Odum, Evolution, Florida, Fossil fuel subsidies, Frank Kreith, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Gainesville, Florida, Green–Kubo relations, Heterotroph, ... Expand index (50 more) »
- Systems ecologists
Alfred J. Lotka
Alfred James Lotka (March 2, 1880 – December 5, 1949) was a Polish-American mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics.
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Alfred Powell Morgan
Alfred Powell 'Skipper' Morgan (1889–1972) was an electrical engineer, inventor of radio and mechanical devices, and author of technical and children's books from the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Analog computer
An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (analog signals) to model the problem being solved.
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AnnMari Jansson
Eva AnnMari Jansson née Olausson (1934–2007) was a Swedish scientist who specialized in systems ecology.
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Autoradiograph
An autoradiograph is an image on an X-ray film or nuclear emulsion produced by the pattern of decay emissions (e.g., beta particles or gamma rays) from a distribution of a radioactive substance.
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Autotroph
An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms.
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Bachelor of Science
A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, B.Sc., SB, or ScB; from the Latin scientiae baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree that is awarded for programs that generally last three to five years.
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Biogeochemical cycle
A biogeochemical cycle, or more generally a cycle of matter, is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust.
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Biology
Biology is the scientific study of life.
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Biomass
Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.
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Biosphere 2
University of Arizona Biosphere 2 is an American Earth system science research facility located in Oracle, Arizona.
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Birdwatching
Birdwatching, or birding, is the observing of birds, either as a recreational activity or as a form of citizen science.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Chapel Hill is a town in Orange and Durham County, North Carolina, United States.
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Characteristica universalis
The Latin term characteristica universalis, commonly interpreted as universal characteristic, or universal character in English, is a universal and formal language imagined by Gottfried Leibniz able to express mathematical, scientific, and metaphysical concepts.
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Charles A. S. Hall
Charles A. S. Howard T. Odum and Charles A. S. Hall are American ecologists and systems ecologists.
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Chemistry
Chemistry is the scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter.
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Chemostat
A chemostat (from chemical environment is static) is a bioreactor to which fresh medium is continuously added, while culture liquid containing left over nutrients, metabolic end products and microorganisms is continuously removed at the same rate to keep the culture volume constant.
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Community structure
In the study of complex networks, a network is said to have community structure if the nodes of the network can be easily grouped into (potentially overlapping) sets of nodes such that each set of nodes is densely connected internally.
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Crafoord Prize
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord.
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Cybernetics
Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular processes such as feedback systems where outputs are also inputs.
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David M. Scienceman
David M. Scienceman is an Australian scientist; he changed his name from David Slade by deed poll in 1972. Howard T. Odum and David M. Scienceman are systems ecologists.
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Debora Hammond
Debora Hammond (born 1951) is an American historian of science, former Provost and Professor Emerita of Interdisciplinary Studies of the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies at the Sonoma State University. Howard T. Odum and Debora Hammond are American systems scientists and Presidents of the International Society for the Systems Sciences.
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Ecological economics
Ecological economics, bioeconomics, ecolonomy, eco-economics, or ecol-econ is both a transdisciplinary and an interdisciplinary field of academic research addressing the interdependence and coevolution of human economies and natural ecosystems, both intertemporally and spatially.
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Ecological engineering
Ecological engineering uses ecology and engineering to predict, design, construct or restore, and manage ecosystems that integrate "human society with its natural environment for the benefit of both".
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Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists.
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Ecological stability
In ecology, an ecosystem is said to possess ecological stability (or equilibrium) if it is capable of returning to its equilibrium state after a perturbation (a capacity known as resilience) or does not experience unexpected large changes in its characteristics across time.
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Ecology
Ecology is the natural science of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment.
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Economics
Economics is a social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.
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Ecosystem
An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.
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Ecosystem ecology
Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework.
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Ecosystem model
An ecosystem model is an abstract, usually mathematical, representation of an ecological system (ranging in scale from an individual population, to an ecological community, or even an entire biome), which is studied to better understand the real system.
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Ecosystem service
Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems.
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Embodied energy
Embodied energy is the sum of all the energy required to produce any goods or services, considered as if that energy were incorporated or 'embodied' in the product itself.
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Emergy
Emergy is the amount of energy consumed in direct and indirect transformations to make a product or service.
Empirical evidence
Empirical evidence for a proposition is evidence, i.e. what supports or counters this proposition, that is constituted by or accessible to sense experience or experimental procedure.
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Energy flow (ecology)
Energy flow is the flow of energy through living things within an ecosystem.
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Energy systems language
The energy systems language, also referred to as energese, or energy circuit language, or generic systems symbols, is a modelling language used for composing energy flow diagrams in the field of systems ecology.
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Enewetak Atoll
Enewetak Atoll (also spelled Eniwetok Atoll or sometimes Eniewetok; Ānewetak,, or Āne-wātak,; known to the Japanese as Brown Atoll or Brown Island; ブラウン環礁) is a large coral atoll of 40 islands in the Pacific Ocean and with its 296 people (as of 2021) forms a legislative district of the Ralik Chain of the Marshall Islands.
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Engineering
Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to solve technical problems, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve systems.
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Estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.
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Eugene Odum
Eugene Pleasants Odum (September 17, 1913 – August 10, 2002) was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. Howard T. Odum and Eugene Odum are American ecologists and systems ecologists.
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Evolution
Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.
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Fossil fuel subsidies
Fossil fuel subsidies are energy subsidies on fossil fuels.
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Frank Kreith
Frank Kreith (15 December 1922 – 8 January 2018), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson
George Evelyn Hutchinson (January 30, 1903 – May 17, 1991) was a British ecologist sometimes described as the "father of modern ecology." He contributed for more than sixty years to the fields of limnology, systems ecology, radiation ecology, entomology, genetics, biogeochemistry, a mathematical theory of population growth, art history, philosophy, religion, and anthropology. Howard T. Odum and g. Evelyn Hutchinson are American ecologists.
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Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville is the county seat of Alachua County, Florida, United States, and the most populous city in North Central Florida, with a population of 145,212 in 2022.
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Green–Kubo relations
The Green–Kubo relations (Melville S. Green 1954, Ryogo Kubo 1957) give the exact mathematical expression for a transport coefficient \gamma in terms of the integral of the equilibrium time correlation function of the time derivative of a corresponding microscopic variable A (sometimes termed a "gross variable", as in): One intuitive way to understand this relation is that relaxations resulting from random fluctuations in equilibirum are indistinguishable from those due to an external perturbation in linear response.
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Heterotroph
A heterotroph is an organism that cannot produce its own food, instead taking nutrition from other sources of organic carbon, mainly plant or animal matter.
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Homeostasis
In biology, homeostasis (British also homoeostasis) is the state of steady internal physical and chemical conditions maintained by living systems.
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Howard W. Odum
Howard Washington Odum (May 24, 1884 – November 8, 1954) was a white American sociologist and author who researched African-American life and folklore.
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International Biological Program
The International Biological Program (IBP) was an effort between 1964 and 1974 to coordinate large-scale ecological and environmental studies.
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Karin Limburg
Karin Limburg is a professor in the department of Environmental and Forest Biology at SUNY-ESF. Howard T. Odum and Karin Limburg are American ecologists, American systems scientists and ecological economists.
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Le Chatelier's principle
Le Chatelier's principle (pronounced or), also called Chatelier's principle (or the Equilibrium Law), is a principle of chemistry used to predict the effect of a change in conditions on chemical equilibrium.
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Macroscope (science concept)
In science, the concept of a macroscope is the antithesis of the microscope, namely a method, technique or system appropriate to the study of very large objects or very complex processes, for example the Earth and its contents,de Rosnay, J. (1975).
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Marine biology
Marine biology is the scientific study of the biology of marine life, organisms that inhabit the sea.
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Mars Society
The Mars Society is a nonprofit organization that advocates for human exploration and colonization of Mars.
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Maximum power principle
The maximum power principle or Lotka's principle has been proposed as the fourth principle of energetics in open system thermodynamics.
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Metabolism
Metabolism (from μεταβολή metabolē, "change") is the set of life-sustaining chemical reactions in organisms.
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Meteorologist
A meteorologist is a scientist who studies and works in the field of meteorology aiming to understand or predict Earth's atmospheric phenomena including the weather.
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Meteorology
Meteorology is a branch of the atmospheric sciences (which include atmospheric chemistry and physics) with a major focus on weather forecasting.
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Microcosm (experimental ecosystem)
Microcosms are artificial, simplified ecosystems that are used to simulate and predict the behaviour of natural ecosystems under controlled conditions.
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States.
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Ohm's law
Ohm's law states that the electric current through a conductor between two points is directly proportional to the voltage across the two points.
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Panama Canal Zone
The Panama Canal Zone (Zona del Canal de Panamá), also simply known as the Canal Zone, was a concession of the United States located in the Isthmus of Panama that existed from 1903 to 1979.
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Paul G. Risser
Paul Gillan Risser (September 14, 1939 – July 10, 2014) was an American ecologist and academic from Oklahoma. Howard T. Odum and Paul G. Risser are American ecologists.
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Phi Beta Kappa
The Phi Beta Kappa Society (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest academic honor society in the United States.
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Philosophy of biology
The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences.
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Progress
Progress is movement towards a refined, improved, or otherwise desired state.
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Puerto Rico
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Radiant energy
In physics, and in particular as measured by radiometry, radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic and gravitational radiation.
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Radioecology
Radioecology is the branch of ecology concerning the presence of radioactivity in Earth’s ecosystems.
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Respiration rate
The respiration rate is a parameter which is used in ecological and agronomical modeling.
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Robert Costanza
Robert Costanza (born September 14, 1950) is an American/Australian ecological economist and Professor at the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, University College London. Howard T. Odum and Robert Costanza are American systems scientists, ecological economists and systems ecologists.
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Sankey diagram
Sankey diagrams are a data visualisation technique or flow diagram that emphasizes flow/movement/change from one state to another or one time to another, in which the width of the arrows is proportional to the flow rate of the depicted extensive property.
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Scott W. Nixon
Scott W. Nixon (1943 – May 21, 2012) was an ecosystem ecologist whose research primarily focused on nitrogen and eutrophication in coastal and estuarine ecosystems. Howard T. Odum and Scott W. Nixon are American ecologists.
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Silver Springs, Florida
Silver Springs is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Marion County of northern Florida.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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State University of Campinas
The State University of Campinas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.
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Steady state
In systems theory, a system or a process is in a steady state if the variables (called state variables) which define the behavior of the system or the process are unchanging in time.
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System
A system is a group of interacting or interrelated elements that act according to a set of rules to form a unified whole.
Systems ecology
Systems ecology is an interdisciplinary field of ecology, a subset of Earth system science, that takes a holistic approach to the study of ecological systems, especially ecosystems.
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Systems theory
Systems theory is the transdisciplinary study of systems, i.e. cohesive groups of interrelated, interdependent components that can be natural or artificial.
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Teleology
Teleology (from, and)Partridge, Eric.
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Tropical ecology
Tropical ecology is the study of the relationships between the biotic and abiotic components of the tropics, or the area of the Earth that lies between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn (23.4378° N and 23.4378° S, respectively).
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Army Air Forces
The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and de facto aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II (1941–1947).
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United States Atomic Energy Commission
The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was an agency of the United States government established after World War II by the U.S. Congress to foster and control the peacetime development of atomic science and technology.
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United States Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters.
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University of Florida
The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida.
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University of Maryland, College Park
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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University of Siena
The University of Siena (Università degli Studi di Siena, abbreviation: UNISI) in Siena, Tuscany, is the first publicly funded university as well as one of the oldest in Italy.
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University of Texas Marine Science Institute
The University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) is part of the University of Texas at Austin but is located in Port Aransas, Texas.
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William J. Mitsch
William Mitsch (born March 29, 1947) is an ecosystem ecologist and ecological engineer who was co-laureate of the 2004 Stockholm Water Prize in August 2004 as a result of a career in wetland ecology and restoration, ecological engineering, and ecological modelling. Howard T. Odum and William J. Mitsch are American ecologists.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Zoology
ZoologyThe pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon.
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See also
Systems ecologists
- Brian Walker (ecologist)
- C. S. Holling
- Carl Folke
- Charles A. S. Hall
- David Holmgren
- David M. Scienceman
- Douglas A. Lawson
- Ellen Swallow Richards
- Eugene Odum
- George Van Dyne
- Gordon Arthur Riley
- Holzer Permaculture
- Howard T. Odum
- Irene Tarimo
- John Kineman
- John Todd (Canadian biologist)
- Lawrence R. Pomeroy
- List of environmental engineers
- Living Machine
- Marcia Macedo
- Michael Fasham
- Pat Munday
- Paul Falkowski
- Paul V. Roberts
- Rachel Carson
- Ramon Margalef
- Robert Costanza
- Robert Ulanowicz
- Sonia Kéfi
- Sven Erik Jørgensen
- Unidan
- William H. Schlesinger
References
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