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Also Known As bionomics • bioecology • environmental biology

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Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Potawatomi writer and scientist
Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Al Gore
Al Gore
vice president of United States
Charles Elton
English biologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Murie, Margaret
Margaret Murie
American naturalist, conservationist, and writer
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
American biologist
Flannery, Tim
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist
Raman Sukumar
Indian ecologist
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland
prime minister of Norway
Pierre Dansereau
Canadian plant ecologist
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
American biologist
Karl P. Schmidt
American zoologist
E.F. Schumacher
British economist
Thomas Park
American animal ecologist
Warder Clyde Allee
American zoologist
Victor Ernest Shelford
American zoologist

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