BioConcepts

population ecologyPopulationsökologie (ger.)

• The study of the interaction of a particular species or genus population (or sometimes of a higher taxon) with its environment. (Oxford Dict. of Zoology 2009)
  category population

  1941

  The survival of adult bed-bugs, which had been fed once as adults and then set aside and starved, presents some interesting physiological problems partiularly those related to water loss and the role of water in the blood-meal. Such problems […] have no immediate bearing on the problems of population ecology.

  Johnson, C.G. (1941). The ecology of the bed-bug, Cimex lectularius L., in Britain: report on research, 1935-40. J. Hygiene 41, 345-461: 406.

  1945

  The population adds a level of complexity above that represented by the organism. Since it is composed of many organisms, it seems to follow that a population has certainorganismic attributes. In addition, however, it has a series of unique features, which emerge because it is a group-unit reacting as a whole within its effective en- vironment. It is this latter phase that particularly interests the student of population ecology.

  Park, T. (1945). Ecological aspects of population biology. Sci. Monthly 60, 311-313: 311.

  1946

  Both biometry and human demography have contributedsubstantially to population ecology.

  Park, T. (1946). Some observations on the history and scope of population ecology. Ecol. Monogr. 16, 315-320: 316.

  1949

  One special group of cases, where all the organisms are of one species, and all the organizing relations are intraspecific, can be abstracted from the community. These cases have proved to be of particular importance. The study of this group of cases is often referred to as population ecology

  Hutchinson, G.E. & Deevey, E.S. Jr. (1949). Ecological studies on populations. Survey of Biological Progress 1, 325-359: 325-6.

  1951

  Population ecology in birds

  Lack, D. (1951). Population ecology in birds. Proc. 10. Int. Ornith. Congr., 409-448.