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Ecology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

C. H. Gimingham ,
D. H. N. Spence  and
A. Watson
C. H. Gimingham
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB9 2UD
D. H. N. Spence
Affiliation:
Department of Botany, University of St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AJ
A. Watson
Affiliation:
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, Banchory Research Station, Hill of Brathens, Banchory, Kincardineshire AB3 4BY
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It is an impossible task to identify a precise point in time which marks the start of an important departure in scientific thought. Every such development has its antecedents in earlier observations, ideas and interpretations. This applies as much to ecology as to any other branch of knowledge, if not more so since ecology at least in part is a synthetic discipline, depending for its progress on advances in other relevant aspects of biological and environmental science. Ecology is, perhaps, more an approach to biological enquiry than a ‘subject’ with clearly circumscribed information content and terms of reference. It is, however, a distinctive approach in that it concerns the interactions between organisms and the environments within which they habitually dwell, and their interactions among themselves in populations and communities.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 84: Two Hundred Years of the Biological Sciences in Scotland , 1983 , pp. 85 - 118
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