Eugene Pleasants Odum (1913 – 2002)

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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. He and Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook Fundamentals of Ecology, published in 1953. He make huge apportaions to ecology, ecosystems and environmentalism.

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By: Ixelle Salas Rosales