History of Ecological Sciences, Part 51: Formalizing Marine Ecology, 1870s to 1920s
Journal: Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America
Year: 2014

Click here for all previous articles in the History of the Ecological Sciences series by F. N. Egerton This part is the fourth in a sequence of histories of ecological sciences that arose from the 1870s into the 1920s, the previous ones being on plant ecology, animal ecology, and limnology (Egerton 2013b, 2014a, Egerton b). However, since marine ecology is a part of oceanography as well as being an ecological science, its history is more complex than that of the other three, and consequently, th