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Eugene Odum
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Eugene Pleasants Odum was born on 17 September 1913 in Newport, New Hampshire, and died on 10 August 2002 in Athens, Georgia. He joined the University of Georgia's Department of Zoology in 1940 and remained there for the rest of his career, helping found the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory and the University of Georgia Marine Institute. His 1953 textbook Fundamentals of Ecology, written with his brother Howard T. Odum, popularized the term ecosystem and treated it as the basic unit of nature whose properties are greater than the sum of its parts; translated into a dozen languages, it dominated the training of American ecologists for a generation. In 1964, as president of the Ecological Society of America, Odum announced the establishment of systems ecology, a program for studying whole ecosystems as integrated systems.
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President of the Ecological Society of America in 1964, the year he announced the establishment of systems ecology.
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1. Eugene Odum (New Georgia Encyclopedia)
Betty Jean Craige, New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2002New Georgia Encyclopedia, Craige, 2002, rev. 2019Quote, New Georgia Encyclopedia, Craige, 2002, rev. 2019
Eugene Pleasants Odum, called the father of modern ecology, brought the word ecosystem into common parlance by making it the organizing concept in his 1953 Fundamentals of Ecology.
Fundamentals of Ecology
Eugene P. Odum, W. B. Saunders Company, 1953
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