I am Andrew Scutt and I'm currently a student at Bucknell University. Although I am an Accounting and Financial Management major, I joined Wikipedia to explore the History of Ecology through a course offered at Bucknell.

I am interested in, and will be researching and editing, the following articles this semester:

History of Ecology

The history of ecology is important to understand because it is the foundation of the science itself. We cannot understand ecological theories of the time without understanding ecological history. One of the world’s most heated debates, creation vs. evolutionism, finds its routes in the history of ecology. Understanding the history of ecology can help us understand why certain species are going extinct as well. If we can grasp the history of the science, it allows us as students to explore many more topics.

Some of the sources I plan to use this semester to conduct my research include the following:

References

Berkes, Fikret. 1999. Sacred ecology: traditional ecological knowledge and resource management.Taylor & Francis.

Graham, Michael H., and Paul K. Dayton. 2002. On the evolution of ecological ideas: paradigms and scientific progress. Ecology 83, no. 6:1481-1489.

Hagen, Joel B. 2008. Teaching Ecology during the Environmental Age, 1965–1908. Environmental History 13, no. 4:704-723.

Kingsland, Sharon E. 2005. The evolution of American ecology, 1890-2000.JHU Press.

McIntosh, Robert P. 1986. The background of ecology: concept and theory.Cambridge University Press.

Mitman, Gregg. 1992. The state of nature: ecology, community, and American social thought, 1900-1950.University of Chicago Press.

Neff, Mark W., and Elizabeth A. Corley. 2009. 35 years and 160,000 articles: A bibliometric exploration of the evolution of ecology. Scientometrics 80, no. 3:657-682.

Slack, Nancy G. 2010. G. Evelyn Hutchinson and the Invention of Modern Ecology.Yale University Press.