Document Type

Article

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Annals of the Entomological Society of America

Volume

22

Issue

4

Publication Date

12-1-1929

First Page

555

Last Page

582

Abstract

Through the whim of fashion, which affects Science as well as every other human institution, it has come to pass that in biogeographical studies the ''ecological'' aspect nowadays has the center of interest; while the purely "geographical," or distributional, method, as exemplified by Wallace's work, is being sadly neglected. To make matters worse, the professional ''ecologist'' gives undue prominence to the strictly physiological side of the problem, viz. the reaction of the organism to the environment. Other equally important topics of the animal's (or plant's) biology, such as food-habits, reproduction, enemies and parasites, seem hardly worthy of his attention. At the risk of being dismissed as antiquated by the prophets of the day, I am presenting this brief paper in support of the contention that "ecology" alone cannot teach us all the story of the present-day distribution of animals and plants.

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