An
Entangled Bank
A
Historical Overview 
Outline
Ecological History
Defining
Ecology
Raymond L Lindeman (1942) The Trophic-Dynamic Aspect of Ecology
Ecology, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Oct., 1942), pp. 399-417
Herb BormannTyler World Prize for Environmental Achievement; Eminent Ecologist, ESA
Bormann, FH Ecology: A Personal History. Annual Review of Energy and the Environment (1996) Vol 21: 1-29
Robert
V O'Neill
MacArthur Award Recipient, 1999
O'Neill, RV (2001) Is it time to bury the ecosystem
concept? (With full military honors, of course!). Ecology,
82, 3275-3284
Recommended: Real, LA & Brown, JH (eds) (1991) Foundations of Ecology: Classic Papers with Commentaries, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, pp. 906. Forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology
Richard
C Lewontin is an evolutionary geneticist, philosopher of science,
and social critic. Best known among biologists for his role in the
development of molecular population genetics in the 1960s and 1970s. Lewontin,
RC & D Cohen (1969) On population growth
in a randomly varying environment. Proceedings
National Academy of Sciences 62:1056-1060 Pfister, C (1998) Patterns of variance in stage-structured populations: evolutionary predictions and ecological implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 95:213-218
Morris and Doak 04.pdf
Plant/primate interactions; who wins the chemical war?
Daniel H Janzen
Univ Penn. National Academy of Sciences: "...has
provided
much
of our present understanding of coevolution in terrestrial arthropods and
plants..." Herbivores
and the Number of Tree Species in Tropical Forests, American
Naturalist, 104 (1970):
501-528
Kenneth
Glander, (1994) "Nonhuman
primate self-medication with wild plant foods" in Eating on the Wild
Side, NL Etkin (ed), The University of Arizona Press. Pp. 227-239Daniel H Janzen (1980) When is it coevolution?
Evolution 34 (3): 611-612
Fox, LL (1981) Defense and dynamics in plant-herbivore
systems. American Zoologist 21:853-864
John R Stinchcombe & Mark D Rausher 
(2001) Diffuse Selection on Resistance to Deer Herbivory in the Ivyleaf Morning Glory, Ipomoea hederacea. American Naturalist 158: 376–388
424- 429
Likens, GE, F Bormann, RS Pierce, & WA Reiners. 1978.
Recovery of a deforested ecosystem. Science 199: 492-496.
Bernhardt, ES, GE Likens, DCBuso, & CT Driscoll. 2003.
In-stream uptake dampens effect of major forest disturbance on watershed
nitrogen export. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 100:
10304-10308. (Commentary by Robert O. Hall, Jr., "A stream’s role in watershed nutrient export" See: PNAS)
Gene Likens' research focuses on the ecology and biogeochemistry of forest and aquatic ecosystems, primarily through long-term studies at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He was the co-founder of the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study in 1963, which has shed light on critical links between ecosystem function and land-use practices. FH Bormann (see above) and Likens were co-recipients of the 2003 Blue Planet Prize for outstanding scientific research that helps to solve global environmental problems. Source Tansley AG (1935) The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms. Ecology, 16, 284-307
Scale-specific inference using wavelets. Keitt, T & D Urban
, M Lavine, B Beckage & J ClarkSimon Levine, National
Academy of Sciences: "Through
brilliant and original theoretical work on the dynamics of ecological
communities and landmark collaborations merging theory
with experiment, Levin helped create a
framework for studying the ecology
and evolution of populations in heterogeneous environments. He is a leader
in transforming ecology into a quantitative science with rigorous theoretical
foundations."
A Okubo & Si
Levine (1989)
A theoretical
framework for data analysis of wind dispersal of seeds and pollen. Ecology
70(2): 329-338.
This
paper proposes an analytic framework for estimating distances of seed dispersal.
Key are simplifying assumptions concerning the structure of turbulent
flows inside plant canopie
Joël Sommeria (2001) Unweaving the whirls, Nature (Vol 413): 575 This paper outlines research priorities for understanding turbulent flows, logically hindering progress on seed dispersal
Gaby's never-ending quest to quantify turbulent flow in coffee. Dedicated to his goal, he consumes 34 cups of cappuccino daily.
Biodiversity in regulating ecosystem functioning
Rittschof, Dan (1993) Body odors and neutral-basic peptide mimics: A review of responses by marine organisms. Am. Zool. 33:487-493.
Rittschof, D & Cohen J (2004) Crustacean peptide and peptide-like pheromones and kairomonoes. (In Press) Peptides Word Document & Figures
Global soil change
Olle Björkman is
best known for his pioneering research on plant biochemical adaptation,
including (i) efficiently in sun vs. shade environments, (ii)
at high
temperatures,
and
(iii)
in high light. He is a member of both the US National Academy of Sciences
and Royal Swedish Academy of Science.
Stenberg, P, Palmroth, S, Bond, BJ, Sprugel, DG & Smolander, H (2001) Shoot structure and photosynthetic efficiency along the light gradient in Scots pine canopy. Tree Physiology 21: 805-814.
Schäfer KVR, Oren R, & Tenhunen JD (2000) The effect of tree height on crown-level stomatal conductance. Plant, Cell and Environment 23:365-377
Richard
Waring (recently retired)
is a physiological
ecologist at Oregon State University. Much of his research focused
on the potential effects of environmental change on forest productivity
in landscapes of the Pacific Northwest (abbr.
CV). He led the
OTTER project (Oregon Transect Terrestrial Ecosystem Research)
to develop remote sensing tools for estimating climate-forest
relationships. 
G. Evelyn Hutchinson (1903-1991) is known as the "father of modern limnology." A symposium was held at Yale in October (2003) in honor of his 100th birthday. Hutchinson, GE (1959) Homage to Santa Rosalia; or, Why are there so many kinds of animals. American Naturalist 93:145-159
James S Clark (2005) Why environmental scientists are becoming Bayesians Ecology Letters, (2005) 8: 2–14
James S Clark, Shannon Ladeau & Ines Ibanez, Fecundity of Trees and the Colonization-Competition Hypothesis. Ecological Monographs
Carter, LJ (1975) Agriculture: A new frontier in coastal North Carolina. Science 189: 271-275.
Watson, RT (2002) An international assessment of agricultural science and technology. Bioscience 52 (12): 1060-1061
Castro,
P & ME Huber (2003) Estuaries:
Where Rivers Meet the Sea. Chapter 12 in Marine Biology (4th Edition).
Pp 259-276. McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA (OR any other section on estuaries
in a marine biology or oceanography text)
José Rial et al (2004) Nonlinearities, Feedbacks and Critical Thresholds within the Earth's Climate System. Climatic Change
Aquatic versus terrestial systems: the evidence 
Eugene
Odum was
one of the most influential figures in the history of ecology in the
20th century
EP Odum (1969) The strategy
of ecosystem development Science
164: 262-270
JH
Connell & RO Slatyer (1977)
Mechanisms of succession in natural communities
and their role in community stability and organization. American
Naturalist
111:
1119-1144 [a
Citation Classic in Current
Contents, Nov. 13,1989]
Clements FE (1936) Nature and structure of the climax.
Journal of Ecology 24: 252-284
Henry Chandler Cowles (1899) The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation
on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan Botanical Gazette,pp
167-202 & pp 281-308
Henry Cowles is famous for his pioneer work on ecological succession. His PhD work was entitled, "The Ecological Relations of the Vegetation on the Sand Dunes of Lake Michigan", contained many new ideas on this topic