In the 1960s, as evolutionary theorists explored the possibility of multiple units of selection, ecologists turned to evolutionary approaches.
These waterways are a part-natural, part-human phenomenon and their miraculous character is explained by Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, a slight, bespectacled engineer-turned-ecologist-turned-anthropologist, who speaks English extremely softly and very correctly.
"There were fears that ecologists would turn this thing into a new border, create exclusion zones and forbidden areas, not to serve communism, but environmentalism," he said.
Ecologists have turned to genomics to be able to elucidate the mechanistic bases of the biodiversity their research tries to understand.
Surveying the results 140 years later, a British ecologist, David Wilkinson, turned to science fiction for the appropriate metaphor.
Frank Edwin Egler, a retired plant ecologist who turned his unkempt patch of northwestern Connecticut into a minutely studied habitat, died on Dec. 26 at a nursing home in North Canaan, Conn.
Some people are puzzled by an art whose votaries hold the things of life so sacred that they save society's effluvium like mystical ecologists only to turn around and use it to speak of joy, violence and death in the same breath.
A number of ecologists also made the historical turn.
Jackson put the case squarely to the ecologists: they needed to turn to historical sources and rediscover the world.
In this election, in which the French turnout was roughly half that of the 2007 presidential race, the Ecologists attracted a number of Socialist voters who did not turn to Mr. Bayrou.
