The Science of Ecology

by Paul R. Ehrlich, Jonathan Roughgarden

Book by Ehrlich Paul R and Jonathan Roughgarden

Paperback

First published March 1, 1987

About the author

Paul Ralph Ehrlich was an American biologist and educator who was the Bing Professor of Population Studies in the department of Biological Sciences at Stanford University and president of Stanford's Center for Conservation Biology. By training he was an entomologist specializing in Lepidoptera (butterflies), but he was better known as an ecologist and a demographer, specifically for his warnings about unchecked population growth and limited resources. Ehrlich became a household name after publication of his controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb.