Encyclopedia of China (2nd Edition) Reading Notes 00697 - Elton

Elton, Charles Sutherland (1900-03-29~1991-05-01)

British animal ecologist. Born in Manchester, died in Oxford. He graduated from the Department of Zoology at Oxford University in 1922. In 1932, the Institute of Animal Populations was established at oxford university, which later became an international centre for research and intelligence on animal numbers and ecology. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1953 and was awarded the title of Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Sciences, Arts and Sciences in 1968.

Elton creatively studied the law of quantitative variation in natural populations of animals , especially small mammals , and the results are reflected in his book Voles, Mice, and Lemmings: Problems of Population Dynamics ( 1942 ) . His extensive research on rodent population dynamics and rodent control methods directly brought practical benefits to food preservation during World War II, and his research results were reflected in the book "Control of Rats and Mice" (1954). Elton attached great importance to the basic theories of ecology, and his books such as Animal Ecology (1927, 1935, 1947) and Animal Ecology and Evolution (1930) had a major impact on the ecological community in the 1930s and 1950s. His later works include Invasive Ecology of Plants and Animals (1958) and Types of Animal Communities (1966).

Excerpt from: The Encyclopedia of China (2nd Edition), Volume 1, Encyclopedia of China Publishing House, 2009