A Treatise on Limnology, The Zoobenthos
A Treatise on Limnology, The Zoobenthos

Author: G. Evelyn Hutchinson

Publisher:

Published: 1993-07-29

Total Pages: 978

ISBN-13:

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This detailed reference work focuses on benthic species, particularly those insects which were the author's special study. The book presents ideas, hypotheses and a synthesis that places facts in the larger context of ecological theory.

Fresh Water
Fresh Water

Author: E. C. Pielou

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-10

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780226668154

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Pielou describes the natural history of fresh water--a vital ingredient of the natural world--exploring its sources and destinations, how it moves over and under the earth, and how it ends up in the atmosphere. 81 line drawings.

G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology
G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology

Author: Nancy G. Slack

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 0300161387

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Slack enjoyed full access to Hutchinson's archives and conducted extensive interviews both with Hutchinson himself and with his students, colleagues, and friends. She evaluates his contributions to theoretical ecology, limnology (the study of fresh-water ecosystems), biogeochemistry, population ecology, and the creation of the new fields of systems ecology and radiation ecology, and she discusses his profound influence as a mentor. The book also looks into his personal life, which included three very different wives, a refugee baby under his care during World War II, friendships with such contemporaries as Rebecca West, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson, and a host of colleagues and friends on four continents. Filled with information available nowhere else, this book draws a vibrant portrait of a giant in the discipline of twentieth-century ecology who was also a man of remarkable personal appeal. --Book Jacket.