HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Dust Bowl (Film), Victor Ernest Shelford, Ecological Crisis
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Forerunners of ecology: haeckel, humboldt, merriam, and warming. All this parallels the various views on nature: conservation vs. preservation ideas. The state and science: conservation policy, yellowstone and national parks. Henry c. cowles: 1890s, applied warming"s succession and climax model. If the area were left alone, the development of the area would become larger forms of life. They go from stage to stage to develop further: great lakes region (michigan) Things can change: stressed the importance of soil, monoclimax. Idea that many given region that the climax is the only ending that could happen so therefore the climate controls what develops: joined victor shelford to make bioecology . A larger story of interaction: probably most important american ecologists for funding. Various explanations: overspeculation (connected to the stock market crash) They wanted to go too big because they wanted to get too much money: overmechanization (blame specialization)
