Brief history of ecology: vicissitudes and pretensions of a new science (II)

Authors

  • Jose Mª Blanco Martín

Keywords:

history, ecology, vicissitudes, pretensions

Abstract

Elton defines the ecological niche as ‘what the animal actually does, and not just its appearances’ in a clear confrontation with the static conception entrenched from phytogeography. In reality, Elton does not define the niche as a final concept, but as one of the four premises that lead him to elaborate his theory on the pyramid of numbers, about the structure of communities, whose importance would not be appreciated until almost twenty years later, when the concept of ecosystem is born in the rational mind of Tansley, and Lindeman tries to publish his brilliant article on the flow of energy at different trophic levels within the ecosystem.

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Published

2007-01-20

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Brief history of ecology: vicissitudes and pretensions of a new science (II). (2007). Encuentros En La Biología, 114, 6-8. https://revistas.uma.es/index.php/enbio/article/view/18615