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Also Known As bionomics • bioecology • environmental biology

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mourning doves (Zenaida macroura)
Ernst Haeckel
Konrad Lorenz
light gray peppered moth (Biston betularia)
dark coloured peppered moth (Biston betularia)
scale in ecological studies
What is a trophic cascade?
What are the different types of extinction?
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Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt
German explorer and naturalist
Al Gore
Al Gore
vice president of United States
Charles Elton
English biologist
Frederic Edward Clements
American botanist, taxonomist, and ecologist
Murie, Margaret
Margaret Murie
American naturalist, conservationist, and writer
Henry Chandler Cowles
American botanist
Emma Lucy Braun
American botanist and ecologist
Rachel Carson
Rachel Carson
American biologist
Flannery, Tim
Tim Flannery
Australian zoologist
Raman Sukumar
Indian ecologist
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Gro Harlem Brundtland
prime minister of Norway
Pierre Dansereau
Canadian plant ecologist
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
American biologist
Karl P. Schmidt
American zoologist
E.F. Schumacher
British economist
Johannes Eugenius Bülow Warming
Danish botanist
Thomas Park
American animal ecologist
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American zoologist
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greylag. Flock of Greylag geese during their winter migration at Bosque del Apache National Refugee, New Mexico. greylag goose (Anser anser)
Biology Bonanza
Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
Ecosystems