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From its creation by Charles Elton in 1932 to its demise when he retired in 1967, the Bureau of Animal Population at Oxford was a mecca for ecologists from around the world. Crowcroft provides an anecdotal history of this small research institute that so strongly influenced the development of modern animal ecology. "[This] is a very good account of the work and personal interactions of a group that played an important part in the development of animal ecology in the period 1930-60."--John Krebs, TREECrowcroft, Peter is the author of 'Elton's Ecologists A History of the Bureau of Animal Population' with ISBN 9780226121482 and ISBN 0226121488.
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