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Suggested Classic Papers in Ecology
Birch, L.C. 1948. The intrinsic rate of natural increase of an insect population. Journal of
Animal Ecology 17:15 - 26.
Bray, J.R. and J.T. Curtis. 1957. An ordination of the upland forest communities of southern
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Clements, F.E. 1936. Nature and structure of the climax. Journal of Ecology 24:252 - 284.
Connell, J.H. 1961. The influence of interspecific competition and other factors on the
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Connell, J.H. 1970. On the role of natural enemies in preventing competitive exclusion in some
marine animals and in rain forest trees. Dynamics of Populations: Proceedings of the
Advanced Study Institute on Dynamics of Numbers in Populations (eds. P.J. den Boer and
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Connell, J.H. and R.O. Slatyer. 1977. Mechanisms of succession in natural communities and
their role in community stability and organization. American Naturalist 111:1119 - 1144.
Connell, J.H. 1978. Diversity in tropical rain forests and coral reefs. Science 199:1302 - 1310.
Cowles, H.C. 1899. The ecological relations of the vegetation on the sand dunes of Lake
Michigan. The Botanical Gazette 27:95 - 117.
Davis, M.B. 1969. Climatic changes in southern Connecticut recorded by pollen deposition at
Rogers Lake. Ecology 50:409 - 422.
Fernald, M.L. 1924. Isolation and endemism in northeastern America and their relation to the
age-and-area hypothesis. American Journal of Botany 11:558 - 572.
Fernald, M.L. 1926. The antiquity and dispersal of vascular plants. Quarterly Review of Biology
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Forbes, S.A. 1887. The lake as a microcosm. Bulletin of the Peoria Scientific Association :77 –
87.
Gleason, H.A. 1924. Age and area from the viewpoint of phytogeography. American Journal of
Botany 11:541 - 546.
Gleason, H.A. 1926. The individualistic concept of the plant association. Bulletin of the Torrey
Botanical Club 53:7 - 26.
Griggs, R.F. 1940. The ecology of rare plants. Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club 67:575 –
594.
Grime, J.P. 1977. Evidence for the existance of three primary strategies in plants and its
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Grinnell, J. 1917. The niche-relationships of the California thrasher. The Auk 34:427 - 433.
Hairston, N.G. and F.E. SmithL.B. Slobodkin. 1960. Community structure, population control,
and competition. American Naturalist 94:421 - 425.
Harper, J.L. 1967. A Darwinian approach to plant ecology. Journal of Ecology 55:247 - 270.
Holling, C.S. 1959. The components of predation as revealed by a study of small mammal
predation of the European pine sawfly. The Canadian Entomologist 91:293 - 320.
Horn, H.S. and R.H. MacArthur. 1972. Competition among fugitive species in a harlequin
environment. Ecology 53:749 - 752.
Hubbell, S.P. 1979. Tree dispersion, abundance, and diversity in a tropical dry forest. Science
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Huffaker, C.B. 1958. Experimental studies on predation: Dispersion factors and predator-prey
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Hutchinson, G.E. 1957. Concluding remarks. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on on Quantitative
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Hutchinson, G.E. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia; or, Why are there so many kinds of animals?
American Naturalist 93:145 - 159.
Janzen, D.H. 1970. Herbivores and the number of tree species in tropical forests. American
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Keever, C. 1950. Causes of succession on old fields of the Piedmont, North Carolina.
Ecological Monographs 20:229 - 250.
Kettlewell, H.B.D. 1955. Selection experiments on industrial melanism in the Lepidoptera.
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Likens, G.E., F.H. Bormann, and N.M. Johnson. 1970. Effects of forest cutting and herbicide
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Lindeman, R.L. 1942. The trophic-dynamic aspect of ecology. Ecology 23:399 - 418.
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Ecology 39:599 - 619.
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May, R.M.. 1974. Biological populations with non-overlapping generations: Stable points,
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Odum, E.P. 1969. The strategy of ecosystem development. Science 164:262 - 270.
Paine, R.T. 1966. Food web complexity and species diversity. American Naturalist 100:65 –
75.
Park, T. 1948. Experimental studies of interspecies competition I. Competition between
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Preston, F.W. 1962. The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity: Part I. Ecology
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Preston, F.W. 1962. The canonical distribution of commonness and rarity: Part II. Ecology
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Schoener, T.W. 1971. Theory of feeding strategies. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics
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Simberloff, D.S. and E.O. Wilson. 1969. Experimental zoogeography of islands: The
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Tansley, A.G. 1935. The use and abuse of vegetational concepts and terms. Ecology 16:284 –
307.
Teal, J.M.. 1962. Energy flow in the salt marsh ecosystem of Georgia. Ecology 43:614 - 624.
Terborgh, J. 1973. On the notion of favorableness in plant ecology. American Naturalist
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Nature 118:558 - 560.
von Post, L. 1967. Forest tree pollen in South Swedish peat bog deposits. Pollen et Spores
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Whittaker, R.H. 1953. A consideration of climax theory: The climax as a population and pattern.
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Whittaker, R.H. 1965. Dominance and diversity in land plant communities. Science 147:250 –
260.
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