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mourning doves (Zenaida macroura)

What is a trophic cascade?

light gray peppered moth (Biston betularia)

dark coloured peppered moth (Biston betularia)

What are the different types of extinction?

scale in ecological studies

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Also Known As	bionomics • bioecology • environmental biology

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mourning doves (Zenaida macroura)

light gray peppered moth (Biston betularia)

dark coloured peppered moth (Biston betularia)

scale in ecological studies

What is a trophic cascade?

What are the different types of extinction?

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community ecology population ecology fire ecology behavioral ecology physiological ecology paleoecology patch dynamics phenology geographic mosaic theory of coevolution systems ecology philosophy of biology geography Earth sciences geology medicine geochronology hydrologic sciences taxonomy zoology microbiology

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Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt

German explorer and naturalist

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Robin Wall Kimmerer

Potawatomi writer and scientist

Charles Elton

English biologist

Al Gore

Al Gore

vice president of United States

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

Warder Clyde Allee

American zoologist

Flannery, Tim

Tim Flannery

Australian zoologist

Raman Sukumar

Indian ecologist

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Gro Harlem Brundtland

prime minister of Norway

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

American biologist

Pierre Dansereau

Canadian plant ecologist

G. Evelyn Hutchinson

American biologist

Karl P. Schmidt

American zoologist

E.F. Schumacher

British economist

Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming

Danish botanist

Thomas Park

American animal ecologist

Victor Ernest Shelford

American zoologist

Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.

Ecosystems

greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)

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