Theoretical and Mathematical Ecologists
A distinction can be made between mathematical ecologists, ecologists who apply mathematics to ecological problems, and mathematicians who develop the mathematics itself that arises out of ecological problems.
- Robert MacArthur
- Joel Cohen
- Donald DeAngelis
- Madhav Gadgil
- Alan Hastings
- Ray Hilborn
- Henry S. Horn
- Cang Hui
- Everett Hughes
- Evelyn Hutchinson
- Hanna Kokko
- Simon Levin
- Richard Levins
- Richard Lewontin
- Marc Mangel
- Ramon Margalef
- Jacqueline McGlade
- Angela McLean
- Robert May
- Robert V. O'Neill
- Howard T. Odum
- E. C. Pielou
- Stuart Pimm
- Hugh Possingham
- Erik Rauch
- Joan (Jonathan) Roughgarden
- Graeme Ruxton
- John Maynard Smith
- George Sugihara
- David Tilman
- Robert Ulanowicz
- E.O. Wilson
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