Roots of Ecology: Antiquity to Haeckel

Ecology is the centerpiece of many of the most important decisions that face humanity. Roots of Ecology documents the deep ancestry of this now enormously important science from the early ideas of Herodotos, Plato, and Pliny, up through those of Linnaeus and Darwin, to those that inspired Ernst Haeckel's mid-nineteenth-century neologism ecology. Based on a long-running series of regularly published columns, this important work gathers a vast literature illustrating the development of ecological and environmental concepts, ideas, and creative thought that has led to our modern view of ecology. Roots of Ecology should be on every ecologist's shelf.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments Introduction I. GREEKS AND ROMANS, ANTIQUITY 1. Early Greek Origins 2. Aristotle and Theophrastos 3. Hellenistic Natural History 4. Roman Natural History II. MEDIEVAL MILLENNUM, A.D. 500 -- 1500 5. Byzantine Natural History 6. Arabic Language Science: Origins and Zoology 7. Arabic Language Science: Botany, Geography and Decline 8. Frederick II, Amateur Avian Ecologist and Behaviorist 9. Albertus Magnus, a Scholastic Naturalist III. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE & SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION, 1500s-1600s 10. Botany during Italian Renaissance and Early Scientific Revolution 11. Vertebrate Zoology, 1500s 12. Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 1500s 13. Broadening Science in Italy and England, 1600-1650s 14. Plant Growth Studies, 1600s 15. Origins of Human and Animal Demography and Statistics 16. Robert Hooke and the Royal Society of London 17. Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, 1600s 18. John Ray and His Associates, Francis Willoughby & Wm Derham 19. Leeuwenhoek's Microscopic Natural History IV. NATURAL HISTORY, 1700s 20. Richard Bradley, Entrepreneurial Naturalist 21. Reaumur and His History of Insects 22. Early European Naturalists Explore Eastern North America 23. Linnaeus and the Economy of Nature 24. Buffon and Environmental Influences on Animals 25. John and William Bartram Explore Eastern North America 26. Gilbert White, Naturalist Extraordinaire 27. Naturalists Explore Russia and North Pacific Lands 28. Plant Growth Studies 29. Plant Disease Studies 30. Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology 31. Animal Population Studies V. EMERGENCE OF ECOLOGICAL SCIENCES, 1800s 32. Humboldt, Nature's Geographer 33. Naturalists Explore North America, mid-1780s-mid-1820s 34. A Changing Economy of Nature 35. Beginnings of British Marine Biology: Edward Forbes and Philip Gosse 36. Hewett Watson, Plant Geographer and Evolutionist 37. Charles Darwin's Voyage on the Beagle 38. Naturalists Explore Western North America, mid 1820s-1850s 39. Henry David Thoreau, Ecologist 40. Darwin's Evolutionary Ecology 41. Victorian Naturalists in Amazonia: Wallace, Bates and Spruce 42. Victorian Naturalists abroad: Hooker, Huxley and Wallace 43. Plant Physiology 44. Phytopathology 45. Entomology 46. From Parasitology to Germ Theory 47. Ernst Haeckel's Ecology Maps 1. Locator map, chapters 1-8 2.Locator map, chapters 9-31 3.Bering's Voyages, 1727-29, 1741-42, in the North Pacific and Bering Sea 4.Humboldt's Explorations in Spanish America 5.2. British vegetation subdivided into 18 provinces Bibliography