WHOS DAT LOLO?

EARNST HAECKEL
animal ecologist
father of ecology

VICTOR E. SHELFORD
community succession

G. EVELYN HUTCHINSON
father of modern limnology
polymath at Yale
n-dimensional niche
born in the UK, studied in
Cambridge

HENRY C. COW LES

succession in dunes (Lake
Michigan)

CHARLES E. ELTON
population ecology
invasive species (introduced
species that cause damage to
native species)
Eltonian Pyramid of Biomass

EUGENE P. ODUM
father of modern ecology
studied under Shelford (U. of
Illinois)
wrote first college-level
textbook on ecology
established Inst. of Ecology
in U. of Georgia
ecosystem energy flow
the ecosystem is greater
than the sum of its parts

HOW ARD T. ODUM

first complete analysis of
natural ecosystem
silver spring model
salt marsh-estuaries
ecosystem
o

euryhaline plants
(tolerates changes in
salinity)
detritus (all organic
matter undergoing
decomposition)

DR. MICHAEL L. CAIN

AB Biology and math summa
cum laude
wrote Evolution part in
Campbell

DAVID SCHINDLER
believed that if nutrients are
increased, water quality
deteriorates
proven with lake 226
(cyanobacterial bloom in
northern basin)

CHARLES DARW IN
wrote The Origin of Species
first studied medicine at
Edinburgh and then Theology
at Cambridge

GEERAT J. VERM EIJ

HS valedictorian, studied at
Princeton, PhD at Yale
top malacologist; wellpublished
editor/ associate editor of
Science, Evolution, and
Paleobiology
evolutionary arms race
suffered from unusual
childhood glaucoma
sees gastropod molluscs with
his hands

THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY
evolutionary biologist
Russian Christian Orthodox
Nothing in biology makes
sense except in the light of
evolution.

ARISTOTLE
viewed species as fixed and
arranged them on a scala
naturae
Scala Naturae and
Classification of Species
o

Great Chain of Being

JAMES HUTTON
changes in earths surface can
result from slow, continuous
actions still operating today

CAROLUS LINNAEUS
interpreted adaptations of
species as evidence that the
Creator has designed each
species for a purpose
founder of taxonomy
binomial format for naming
(Linnaean system of
classification)

CHARLES LYELL
uniformitarianism
mechanisms of change are
constant over time
strongly influenced Darwin

JEAN LOPOLD NICOLAS

FRDRIC CUVIER
paleontology (study of fossils)
catastrophism

JEAN-BAPTISTE PIERRE
ANTOINE de MONET
CHEVALIER de LAMARCK
species evolve through
1)
2)

use and disuse of body

parts
inheritance of acquired
characteristics

CAPTAIN ROBERT FITZROY

Darwins companion (HMS
Beagle)
seaworthy; first to score 10%
in the Royal Navy exam

ALFRED RUSSEL W ALLACE

sent a manuscript to Darwin
naturalist who had the same
idea as Darwin (individuals with
favorable traits are more likely to
survive)

EMMA W EDGEW OOD

wife of Darwin

RICHARD BAILEY
photographed pigeons that
played an important role in
Darwins work

JOHN GOULD
ornithologist
identified Darwins birds

THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS

potential for human
population to increase than
food supplies and other
resources

DR. PETER and ROSEMARY

GRANT
went to Daphne Major to
extract blood from finches for
DNA analysis
witnessed evolution firsthand

MAURICE W ILKINS
won the Nobel Prize with the
2 posers above (not the Grant
couple coz theyre kewl) in
1962

JAMES W ATSON
the douchebag whos about to
sell his Nobel medal to buy a
painting
wrote The Double Helix
(which he will also sell btw wth)

EMILE FRISON
Belgian plant geneticist of
International Network for the
Improvement of Banana and
Plantain (INIBAP)
overcome concerns about
genetically modified bananas

FRANCIS CRICK
discovered the DNA
structure with Watson (we all
know Rosalind Franklin did so
nope)

EDW ARD O. W ILSON

Lord of the Ants
distinguished professor in
Harvard University
joined Harvard in 1956 with
James D. Watson
memoir The Naturalist
proposed the concept of
The Hundred Hearbeats
Club

ELIZABETH A. GILBERT
wrote the biography of Geerat Vermeij

REMEDIOS ROMBAOA RODEROS

graduated from the University of Birmingham
studies gingers
one of the spice girls

SUSAN MIDDLETON
takes pictures of endangered animals (e.g. gold-banded hermit)