Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Gilbert White and His Letters to Naturalists; 2: The Beginning of Conservation; 3: The Chain of Being; 4: Geography of Living Things; 5: Charles Darwin and His "Entangled Bank"; 6: The Growth of Ecology; 7: Social Organization of Plants; 8: American Ecology; 9: British Ecology; 10: The Rise of Sociobiology; 11: Ecology and Environmentalism; Conclusion; Glossary; Further Resources; Index
Summary
Traces the origin of ecology and explains what it is and how it has progressed over time
