The European Origins of Scientific Ecology

During the last few decades, historians of scientific ecology have brought to light the role of the European scientists who have laid the basic cornerstones of modern ecology between the end of the eighteenth century & the beginning of the twentieth century. In this book, in order to deal with the complex multidisciplinary roots of the history of ecology, Pascal Acot has brought together a group of historians with authoritative knowledge of the field's various subbranches, without ever losing sight of ecology's relationship to the broader history of biology & the environmental sciences.