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This is an original and wide-ranging account of the careers of a close-knit group of highly influential ecologists working in Britain from the late 1960's onwards. The book can also be read as a history of some recent developments in ecology. One of the group, Robert May, is a past president of the Royal Society, and the author of what many see as the most important treatise in theoretical ecology of the later twentieth century. That the group flourished was due not only to May's intellectual leadership, but also to the guiding hand of T. R. E. Southwood. Southwood ended his career as Linacre

Ecology --- Ecologists --- Biologists --- Conservationists --- Naturalists --- Scientists --- Balance of nature --- Biology --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Research --- History --- May, Robert M. --- Southwood, Richard, --- Southwood, T. R. E. --- May, R. M. --- May, Robert, --- Imperial College, London. --- Great Britain --- Intellectual life --- Imperial College at Silwood Park

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This is one of those biographies that provide a window onto the broader understanding of science in its social and cultural context. Using Sergei Nikolaevich Vinogradskii’s career and scientific research trajectory as a point of entry, this book illustrates the manner in which microbiologists, chemists, botanists, and plant physiologists inscribed the concept of a “cycle of life” into their investigations. Their research transformed a longstanding notion into the fundamental approaches and concepts that underlay the new ecological disciplines that emerged in the 1920s. The book presents a reconstruction of significant episodes of Vinogradskii’s laboratory practices and the role of theory in their development. It paints the broader picture of the history of ecology, microbiology and soil science and how these are uniquely united: through the concept of the cycle of life.  .

Ecologists -- Biography. --- Ecology -- History. --- Microbiologists -- Biography. --- Winogradsky, S. -- (Serge), -- 1856-1953. --- Microbiologists --- History, Modern 1601 --- -Environmental Microbiology --- Biology --- History --- Public Health --- Biological Science Disciplines --- Humanities --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Environment and Public Health --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Health Care --- Soil Microbiology --- Microbiology --- History, 19th Century --- History, 20th Century --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Sciences - General --- Microbiology & Immunology --- Microbiology. --- Winogradsky, S. --- Microbial biology --- Vynhradsʹkyĭ, Serhiĭ Mykolaĭovych, --- Vynhradsʹkyĭ, S. M. --- Виноградський, Сергій Миколайович, --- Wei-no-ko-la-te-ssu-chi, S. N., --- Weinokeladesiji, S. N., --- Vinogradskiĭ, S. N. --- Winogradsky, Serge, --- Winogradsky, Sergeĭ N., --- Science. --- History. --- Ecology. --- Science, general. --- History of Science. --- Microorganisms --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Balance of nature --- Bionomics --- Ecological processes --- Ecological science --- Ecological sciences --- Environment --- Environmental biology --- Oecology --- Environmental sciences --- Population biology --- Ecology --- Ecology .