Amah Akodéwou and Michel Godron have some interesting, beautiful diagrams and mathematics in “Agricultural Land-Use Increases Floral Species Richness in Tropical Dry Forest and Savannah Ecosystems in West Africa.” I have not dug into the strengths and weaknesses of the paper, whatever there may be there, but I love the math! In the abstract, they …
Read more ““Agricultural Land-Use” by Amah Akodéwou and Michel Godron”
In “Eugene Odum: The father of modern ecology” (UGA Today, 9 January 2018), James Hataway writes (: Eugene Odum was not given to fits of anger, but this time he was furious. It was the fall of 1946. Odum, then a young associate professor in the University of Georgia’s biology department, had taught a course …
On the University of Minnesota’s website, in the College of Natural Sciences, they write: John Tester was a pioneering ecologist who helped found the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior in the College of Biological Sciences. He was known as an early advocate of using controlled burns to maintain prairies and forest and was early …
Read more “John Tester, Author of Minnesota’s Natural Heritage”