Open AccessExternal Influences on Ecological Theory: Report on Organized Oral Session 80 at the 100th Anniversary Meeting of the Ecological Society of America
Author(s) -
Huston Michael A.,
Ellison Aaron M.,
Frank David,
Jackson Stephen T.,
Jiang Xichen,
Lau Matthew,
Lockwood Jeffrey A.,
Prager Steven D.,
Reiners Derek S.,
Reiners William A.,
Schulze ErnstDetlef,
Vandermeer John H.,
Werner Patricia A.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the bulletin of the ecological society of america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2327-6096
pISSN - 0012-9623
DOI - 10.1002/bes2.1241
Subject(s) - ecology , ideology , session (web analytics) , field (mathematics) , politics , environmental ethics , sociology , history , political science , biology , law , computer science , philosophy , mathematics , world wide web , pure mathematics
The 100-year history of the Ecological Society of America spans most of the major advances in the field of ecology, from the “niche” of Grinnell and others, to Lotka and Volterra’s models of predation and competition based on the logistic growth equation, to the concept of competitive exclusion developed from experimental ecology, to genetics and evolutionary ecology and all the ramifications and specializations of these topics over the rest of the 20th and into the 21st century