List the most important discoveries in ecology.

Aristotle – “history of animals”;

Theophrastus – “history of plants”;

Linnaeus – “economics of nature”;

Lamarck – “philosophy of zoology”;

Cuvier – “theory of catastrophes”;

Krashennikov – “description of the Kamchatka land”;

Malthus – experiments on the law of population;

Darwin – “the origin of man”;

Rulie – creation of ecological zoogeography;

Haeckel – the concept of “ecology”;

Vernadsky – “biosphere”;

Tensley – the concept of “ecosystem”;

Sukachev – the concept of “biogeocenosis”;

Dokuchaev – the doctrine of soil;

Timiryazev – the study of photosynthesis.